The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month, during the full moon. The lunisolar calendar shifts slightly each year, so in the western Gregorian calendar this usually ...

there are certain traditions without which the Mid-Autumn Festival simply wouldn’t be the same. One of them has been around for centuries: writing riddles on the sides of lanterns for revellers ...

Mid-Autumn Festival / Mooncake Festival Country ... The timing varies each year but in general is considered an autumn solstice festival. Lanterns also play a significant role, with children ...

Lanterns, food, and traditional Chinese ... Chinese heritage to cities around the U.S. September 17 marked the Mid-Autumn ...

Taiwan as part of the Sky Lantern Festival. The festival is held to mark Mid-Autumn. Participants hand-write wishes onto the lanterns, most of them are about family and well-being, before ...

The Lantern Festival is a Chinese holiday marking the first full moon of the lunar new year. Families gather to celebrate and ...

When is the Mid-Autumn Festival? The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eight month in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar.

Anisha Tamang, 15, St Margaret’s Girls’ College, Hong Kong Thousands of mooncake boxes, plastic lanterns and glow sticks end up in the waste after Mid-Autumn Festival. Some of these cannot be ...

THE streets of Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur were lively with the sounds of chatter and beating of drums as the local community and visitors got together to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The moon cakes are round in shape and have filling such as red bean paste. Another tradition during the Mid-Autumn Festival is to light and carry colorful lanterns, which have become an important ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Embracing the upcoming Mid-Autumn festival on Sept 27 ... be decorated with thousands of colourful, vibrantly-lit lanterns with a lantern parade, commencing Sept 26.