The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节Zhōngqiūjié), together with the Spring Festival(春节Chūnjié), Dragon Boat Festival(端午节Duānwǔjié), Qing Ming Festival(清明节Qīngmíngjié) are four of China’s major traditional festivals. It was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. In the Western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurred sometime between the second week of September and the second week of October.
