Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie in Chinese , is also called the Mooncake Festival or the Moon Festival.Mid Autumn Festival is a reunion time for families, a little like Thanksgiving.Chinese people celebrate it by gathering for dinners, worshiping the moon, lighting paper lanterns, eating moon cakes etc. It also celebrated by many other countries include Singapore,Malaysia and mainly Asian American community. The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of over 3,000 years.It was a royal sacrificial ceremony associated with moon worshiping and agricultural activities.People worshiped the moon to give thanks for the harvest and to encourage the 'harvest -giving light' to return in the coming year.The changes in the lunar phases provided guidance for the farming schedule , therefore people believed that worshiping the moon could bring a good harvest. In modern times, most people have sufficient food supplies, but the Mid -Autumn Festival is still significant because the full moon duri...
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