Chinese Festivals

Mid-Autumn festival

This festival is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. This festival is equivalent to Western countries’s Harvest Moon festival. It is one of the loveliest nights of the year. Part of the celebrations commemorate a 14 th- Century uprising against the Mongols when rebels wrote the call to revolt on pieces of paper and embedded them in cakes, then smuggled to compatriots. Today, people eat Moon Cakes which are made of ground lotus and yolk of duck egg.

Besides Moon Cakes, shops will sell paper lanterns with different kinds of shapes such as rabbit, airplane. Children will light their favorite paper lantern and go to the parks such as Victoria Park to celebrate this festival.