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Eating mooncakes and carrying lanterns.
What is the most common way to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival?
100
It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month.
When is the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated?
100
Moon cakes
What is the most common food that is eaten?
100
Mooncakes, Pumpkin, Duck, and Taro.
What are the most traditional foods eaten?
100
中秋节 (Zhōngqiū jié)
What is the Mid-Autumn festival called in Chinese?
200
They gather in the evening to celebrate, and they eat festive fruits and mooncakes.
How is the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated in Hong Kong?
200
During the night.
What time during the day is the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated?
200
pastries that usually have red bean or lotus seed paste filling.
What is a mooncake?
200
Snow Skinned, Chocolate, Durian, Cream Cheese, Ice Cream, and Green Tea.
What is the most original modern mooncake flavour?
200
Because taxes are too high.
Why are mooncakes banned from some countries?
300
They go barbecuing with friends and family.
How does Taiwan celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?
300
Typically September but can range from the end of August to the beginning of October.
What is the 8th lunar month?
300
Pumkin, Duck, Wine ect.
What other foods are eaten?
300
Eating mooncakes, dragon dances, burning incense, matchmaking, and carrying lanterns.
What are traditional Mid-Autumn Festival customs?
300
The outer layer of the fruit is worn on the heads.
What are pomelo rinds?
400
Someone accidentally urinated on a Banyan tree.
How did the Mid-Autumn Festival originate for the Vietnamese?
400
Approximately 3000 years ago.
When was it first celebrated?
400
Food believed to prevent bad luck and bring good luck and wealth.
What is Taro?
400
Lotus seed paste, or red bean pate.
What is the most traditional mooncake flavour?
400
The moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the biggest and the brightest of the year.
Why is it also called the Moon Festival?
500
The Chinese moon godess drank an elixir, which when drunk alone would make you imortal and be sent to heaven.
How did the moon festival originate?
500
September 19
When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2013?
500
A flower that is put in wine that people drink because it signifies family reunions and happy life.
What is the osmanthus flower?
500
Some believe it's a shape, assumed by Chang'e herself.
What is the Jade Rabbit?
500
Chinese Valentines day.
What was the Mid-Autumn Festival called in ancient times?