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What is the festival to eat moon cakes What are the characteristics of this festival

1. Mooncakes are one of the time-honored traditional Chinese pastries, and they are eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2, the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the August Meeting, the Moon Chasing Festival, the Moon Festival, the Moon Playing Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Daughters' Festival, or the Festival of Reunion, is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among the many ethnic groups in China and the countries of the Chinese Character and Culture Sphere, and is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

3. The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals on a par 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.