Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Happy Moon Festival

Today, September 22 of 2010, is the fifteenth of August in Chinese lunar calendar, the Moon Festival, also called the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Moon Festival is the second most important day next to the Spring Festival in China. People have a bounty harvest dinner as a whole family and eat moon cakes as dessert wishing for sweet fulfilled future.

A lot of activities fun for everyone follow the dinner at night, such as moongazing, singing, dancing, and drinking. People in Xiamen, Fujian Province play a unique game called Bo2 Bing3 (博饼), gambling for cakes.

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