Happy Moon Festival

Today is Mid-Autumn day and what a beautiful day it is. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiujie, is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomelos under the moon together.The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties. Of course, our students are stuck here so we're providing little Moon Festival activities for them to help take the sting out of not being with their families.

I will be getting these ALL day. The first one isn't so bad....the next 300 aren't soo good :(