To the Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion and peace. The festival is celebrated when the moon is believed to be the biggest and fullest. To the Chinese, a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness, and family reunion.
中国人怎么过中秋?
Many traditional and meaningful celebrations are held in most households in China, and China's neighboring countries. The main traditions and celebrations include eating mooncakes, having dinner with family, gazing at and worshipping the moon, and lighting lanterns.
中秋节起源
Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of over 3,000 years, dating back to moon worship in the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC). It’s such an important festival that many poems were written about it, stories and legends about the festival are widespread, and its origins have been guessed at and explained by generations of Chinese.
中秋祝福语(英文版)
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Wish you and your family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
Wishing us a long life to share the graceful moonlight, though thousands of miles apart.
A bright moon and stars twinkle and shine. Wishing you a merry Mid-Autumn Festival, bliss, and happiness.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! May the round moon bring you a happy family and a successful future.
The roundest moon can be seen in the autumn. It is time for reunions. I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Day and a wonderful life.
Wish you a perfect life just like the roundest moon in Mid-Autumn Day.
Happy Mid-Autumn Day! Wish that you go well and have a successful and bright future.
I want to make a toast. I Wish that the round moon take my best blessing to you. May you have a happy family and a bright future.
I wish that your career and life, just like the round moon on Did-Autumn Day, be bright and perfect.
1、Without you, the moon is round though my heart is empty.
没有你在我身边,天上月圆圆,我心却空落落。
2、East or west, home is best.
金窝,银窝不如自己的狗窝。
3、The moon cake is eaten away, but the sweetness remains.
月饼已吃,甜蜜犹存
4、Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
家是我们情之所系的地方,虽只身在外,但心系家园。
5、When we are together, even the moon in the sky will be jealousy.
如果我们在一起,天上的月亮也会嫉妒的。
"Zhong Qiu Jie", which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns.
At this time the people always eat the moon cake, to enjoy looking at the moon, the family member reunite, because that day moon is roundest.There are also many wonderful stories about midautumn festival,too.It comes today! I bought some firecrackers and lanterns.After the big dinner,I hang up the lanterns togerther with my sister and then shoot off firecrackers with my family.It was really funny.We was eating mooncakes as well as watching TV.I had a good time with the big family .I love the festival ,it stand for the tuneful of us.