Mid-Autumn Festival English

Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Playing Festival, Moon Worshipping Festival, Daughter's Festival, or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among many ethnic groups in China and the countries of the Chinese Character and Culture Circle, and is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar; the name is given to it because it falls at the halfway point of the three autumns and there are some places where it is set on the sixteenth day of the eighth month. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also celebrated in some places on the sixteenth day of the eighth month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, ling quietly to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, has become one of the Chinese traditional festivals with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some East and Southeast Asian countries, especially for local Chinese. The Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday since 2008.

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1, New Year's Day (January 1, one day off): New Year

2, Spring Festival (Lunar New Year's Day, three days off on New Year's Eve, the first day of the first month of the year, the second day of the first month of the year): Spring Festival

3, Ching Ming Festival (Lunar Ching Ming day, one day off) Tomb-sweeping?Day

4, International Chiwu Labor Cherry Wangxing Women's Day (March 8, women's half-day holiday): International Working Women's?Day

5, Tree Planting Day (March 12): Arbor?Day

6, International Labor Day (May Day): International Labor Day

7, China Youth Day (May 4, a half-day holiday for young people over 14 years old): China Youth Day

8, Dragon Boat Festival (the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on the Lunar Calendar, a day of holiday): The Dragon Boat Festival