Chinese Traditional Festival: Mid-Autumn Day

If you are learning Chinese, you should learn mid-autumn day, a traditional festival in China, and for tradition, families will get together on that day to eat moon cakes and enjoy the moonlight of the day. And if you are learning Chinese in Beijingright now, I bet you are planning your zhongqiu jie already, you may notice that all the supermarket are promoting all kinds of moon cakes, and there will be zhongqiu zhufu on the street already. Or maybe you will have a mid-autumn day party together in China to enjoy the traditional festival of China, and it is a represent of Chinese culture too.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiujie (中秋节), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty.

Today, there are many customs in Mid-Autumn Festival, the forms are different, but all sustenance of people's infinite love for life and a longing for a better life. Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, just as other traditional festivals, it is slowly formed. Also the legend of Mid-Autumn Festival is very rich.
 

Nowadays, in Mid-Autumn Festival, all of the Chinese people celebrate on this date. Farmers celebrate the good harvest in this season. In general, on this day, Chinese family members will gather to admire the bright and large mid-autumn moon, and eat cakes together. In addition, there are other additional cultural or regional customs, such as eating moon cakes outsider and under the moon, carrying lit lanterns, planting mid-autumn trees and so on.
 

The traditional food of this festival is the moon cakes, and there are many different varieties and flavors. Many shops sell moon cakes before the festival.
 

To learn Chinese deeper, you should enjoy Chinese festival first, so hope you can have good time on mid-autumn day in China. You can enjoy moon cakes and moonlight with your Chinese friends, they can tell you more about zhongqiu jie, and it is another way to improve your Chinese.

Sources from The Bridge School China -  One of the Best Chinese Language School in Beijing to help foreigners to learn mandarin more professional.