Mid-Autumn Day (September 22, 2010)

September 22, 2010

Mid-Autumn Day

Mid-Autumn Day is a traditional festival in China. Almost everyone likes to eat mooncakes on that day. Most families have a dinner together to celebrate the festival. A saying goes, "The moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest." Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family reunion. How happy it is to enjoy the mooncakes while watching the full moon with your family members.

“Zhong Qiu Jie”, 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 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.

lunar
a. 阴历的、农历的    op.   solar   a. 阳历的
congregate
v. 聚集
auspicious
a. 吉兆的
fragrant
a. 芳香的
mooncake
n. 月饼
piping hot
a. = very hot 滚烫的
lantern
n. 灯笼