Description

The Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese: 中秋節; simplifiedChinese: 中秋节; pinyin: zhōngqiū jié; Vietnamese: Tết Trung Thu) is apopular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamesepeople.[1][2] The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighthmonth in the Chinese calendar, during a full moon, which is inSeptember or early October in the Gregorian calendar, close to theautumnal equinox.[1] The Government of the People's Republic ofChina listed the festival as an "intangible cultural heritage" in2006, and it was made a Chinese public holiday in 2008.[1] It isalso a public holiday in Taiwan. Among the Vietnamese, it isconsidered the second most important holiday tradition.[3] The dayfollowing Mid-Autumn Festival is a public holiday in Hong Kong andMacau (the festival day itself is not a holiday in Hong Kong andMacau, the logic is that most celebrations are held at night).