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 moon cakes of many varieties with a good cup of
piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns.

Zhong Qiu Jie probably began as a harvest festival.
The festival was later given a mythological flavor with legends of Chang-E,
the beautiful lady in the moon.
¡¡According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it.
 One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat.
The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns.
Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife, Chang-E drank it.
Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this event.
Almost everyone likes to eat moon cakes on that day.
A saying goes, The moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest.
 Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family reunion.
How happy it is to enjoy the moon cakes while watching the full moon with your family members.