Bvsion Technology wishes you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the lantern or moon festival, takes place annually on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. This year, that day falls on September 10. It is also celebrated by many other Asian countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, our country will have a holiday. While in Bvsion technology, the specific holiday time is from September 8 to September 11, 2022, a total of four days. We will see you after the holiday. Mid-Autumn Festival is a celebration of the rice harvest and many fruits. Ceremonies are held both to give thanks for the harvest and to encourage the harvest-giving light to return again in the coming year. It is also a reunion time for families, a little like Thanksgiving. Chinese people celebrate it by gathering for dinners, worshiping the moon, lighting paper lanterns, eating moon cakes, etc. Here are some of the most popular traditional celebrations.

Enjoying a Dinner with Family

The roundness of the moon represents the reunion of the family in Chinese minds. Families will have dinner together on the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival.The public holiday (usually 3 days) is mainly for Chinese people working in different places to have enough time to reunite. Those staying too far away from their parents’ home usually get together with friends.

Eating Mooncakes

Mooncakes are the most representative food for Mid-Autumn Festival. Their round shape and sweet flavor symbolize completeness and sweetness. At the Mid-Autumn Festival, people eat mooncakes together with family, or present mooncakes to relatives or friends, to express their love and best wishes. Mooncakes are usually eaten after dinner while admiring the moon.

Appreciating the Moon

The full moon is the symbol of family reunions in Chinese culture. It is said, sentimentally, that “the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival is the brightest and the most beautiful”. Chinese people usually set a table outside their houses and sit together to admire the full moon while enjoying tasty mooncakes. Parents with little kids often tell the legend of Chang'e Flying to the Moon.

Making and Carrying Mid-Autumn Festival Lanterns

Lanterns are a notable part of Mid-Autumn Festival. People make lanterns, carry lanterns to do moon gazing, hang lanterns in trees or houses, release sky lanterns, or visit public lantern displays, hence it is even be known as a lantern festival.

Lanterns have long been associated with the festival since the Tang Dynasty (618–907), possibly because of their traditional symbolization of luck, light, and familial togetherness. Mid-Autumn lanterns have many shapes and can resemble animals, plants, or flowers. A tradition is to write riddles on lanterns so that people can enjoy solving them with friends or family. In modern times, besides traditional activities, many Chinese people send We Chat red envelopes or go traveling during the 3-day public holiday to celebrate the festival.

There are many Chinese poems praising the beauties of the moon and expressing people’s longing for their friends and families at Mid-Autumn. For example:

Wishing us a long life to share the graceful moonlight, though hundreds of miles apart.
但愿人长久，千里共婵娟.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! May the round moon bring you a happy family and a successful future.
祝福中秋佳节快乐，月圆人圆事事圆满.