Moon Festival

Cover on Moon Cakes Container Picture

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. On this day the moon is at its apogee when it is at it's brightest and is the only day on which it is considered to be perfectly round.

In many ways the festival equates closely with the western harvest festival, as it is the time when the harvests have been gathered and offerings of fruit are made to the Gods. Many different legends were associated with the festival and different deities who traditionally dwell in the moon were worshipped in various regions of China.

On this day you share "Moon Cakes" with your friends. In the tin shown to the left came Moon Cakes from my good student Ron Yi. This is the cover to the tin.