How to say Mid-Autumn Festival in English

Mid-Autumn Festival. It can also be expressed in the following ways: Mooncake Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, Moon Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is 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 Playing Festival, and the Moon Worshipping Festival, The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Daughter's Festival or the Festival of Reunion, is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among many ethnic groups in China and the countries of the Chinese Cultural Circle, and is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar; it is so named because it coincides with the halfway point of the three autumns and is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival on the sixteenth day of the eighth month.

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Mid-Autumn Festival Customs and Traditions: Traditional activities, such as moon festival, moon worship, tide watching, lantern burning, guessing, and so on.

Mid-Autumn Festival moon worship and eating mooncakes are essential customs for the Mid-Autumn Festival across China, as the saying goes, "The moon is full on the 15th day of the 8th month, and the Mid-Autumn Mooncake is fragrant and sweet." The word "mooncake" originated in the Southern Song Dynasty in Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Records", which was only a kind of snack food at that time.

Later, people gradually combined moonlight viewing with mooncakes to symbolize family reunion and to send their thoughts. At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift for friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Xiamen, Fujian Province, there is also the custom of the Bo Cake, and Bo Cake has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage program.

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