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11 Facts About Mid-Autumn Festival

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Mid-Autumn Festival, known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is based on the legend of Chang'e, the Moon goddess in Chinese mythology.

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The custom of praying to the Moon on Mid-Autumn Festival Day has been handed down for thousands of years since that time.

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Mid-Autumn Festival took the magic potion to prevent her husband from becoming immortal.

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Mid-Autumn Festival was a time to enjoy the successful reaping of rice and wheat with food offerings made in honor of the moon.

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Mid-Autumn Festival moon has traditionally been a choice occasion to celebrate marriages.

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In Hong Kong and Macau, the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival is a public holiday rather than the festival date itself, because many celebration events are held at night.

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In Taiwan, and its outlying islands Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a public holiday.

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The most popular festival known as That Luang Mid-Autumn Festival is associated with Buddhist legend and is held at Pha That Luang temple in Vientiane.

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However, the Thadingyut Mid-Autumn Festival is the most popular one and occurs in the month of Thadingyut.

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Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Han calendar—essentially the night of a full moon—which falls near the Autumnal Equinox.

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