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Mid-Autumn Festival |
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Being a popular Asian festival of teemingness and closeness, the Mid-Autumn Festival was started around 3,000 years ago by the urge of ancient Zhou Dynasty of China. In the places like Singapore and Malaysia, the Mid-Autumn Festival is sometimes mentioned as the Lantern Festival. Lantern festival also has alike names but the rituals and the timings of the festival are different as the Lantern festival falls on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year where as the Mid-Autumn festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The Mid-Autumn festival normally falls on the middle or late of September according to the Gregorian calendar.
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The Mid-Autumn festival is counted as one of the two most major holidays in the Chinese lunar calendar and the Mid-Autumn festival is celebrated as a National holiday in many Asian countries. Mid-Autumn festival is basically a festival celebrating good harvest. On the day of celebrating Mid-Autumn festival, all the farmers celebrate the closing of the summer harvesting time of the year on this date.
According to tradition, on this day of Mid-Autumn festival, almost every Chinese family members as well as friends assemble to feel admiration for the bright mid-autumn harvest moon and also to eat pomeloes and moon cakes together
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