> The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Mooncake Festival, is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, it falls on Oct 4. The festival, dating back to ancient China, pays homage to the moon and good harvest.
> The use of “mid-autumn” to describe the celebration first appeared in the Rites of Zhou, a book on bureaucracy and organisation written more than 2,000 years ago. The name “mooncake” to describe the sweet delicacy was used for the first time during the Tang Dynasty (618AD-907AD).
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