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Which countries in the world celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival?
Koreans also call Mid-Autumn Festival "Autumn Night" or "Thanksgiving Day". Mid-Autumn Festival is not a legal holiday in China, but there are five days' holidays in Korea, which is the longest holiday in a year.
In Japan, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar is called "Fifteen Nights" or "Mid-Autumn Festival". Japanese also have the custom of enjoying the moon on this day, which is called "see you on the moon" in Japanese. Unlike China people who eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Japanese people eat zongzi while enjoying the moon, which is called "looking at zongzi on the moon".
Unlike the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival focuses on children. There are all kinds of moon cakes, colorful lanterns, colorful children's toys and other holiday foods and toys with different tastes in the market, and children's faces are full of yearning for festivals. During the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, lantern festivals are held all over Vietnam, and the design of lanterns is evaluated, and the winners will be rewarded.
Singapore is a country with an overwhelming Chinese population and has always attached great importance to the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. For Chinese in Singapore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a godsend opportunity to connect feelings and express gratitude. Friends, relatives and business partners exchange moon cakes to express greetings and wishes.
Thais call Mid-Autumn Festival "Praying for the Moon".
In August, Burmese people will light their headlights on the day of the full moon to celebrate the arrival of Hanukkah.
North Korea calls the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 of the lunar calendar "autumn night". In midsummer, the golden wind swings and the grain is abundant.
The full moon is bright and beaming.
In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival is called "Moon Festival" in India; Nepal is called Desai Festival; Indonesia
It is called "Big Moon Festival"; Laos is called "Yuefu Festival" and so on. Although they have different names, they offer sacrifices and pray to the moon.
The moon, moon viewing and reunion are basically the same.
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