The Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn festival and the qingming festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and called the four Chinese nationality traditional festival. Since 2008 the Mid-Autumn festival is listed as national legal holidays. Country attaches great importance to the protection of non-material cultural heritage遗产, May 20, 2006, the festival with the approval of the state council listed in the first national nonmaterial cultural heritage list.
‘Zhongqiujie’which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious吉利的 symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns.
What was the origin of the Mid-Autumn festival?
There are two legends which claim to explain the tradition of eating mooncakes.
One Tang Dynasty myth holds that the Earth once had 10 suns circling it. One day all 10 suns appeared at once, scorching the planet with their heat. It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hou Yi that the Earth was saved. He shot down all but one of the suns. As his reward, the Heavenly Queen Mother gave Hou Yi the Elixir of Immortality, but she warned him t
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