Mid Autumn Festival (Zhongqiu Jie) Beijing

Mid Autumn Festival (Zhongqiu Jie) Beijing

Known for its various festivals and events, Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the place to be. The city is a home to number of monuments and temples and is therefore visited by large number of tourists every year. Spring festival, lantern festival, mid autumn festival etc. are some of the festivals to be celebrated in Beijing. AsiaRooms offers to give you online information on Mid-autumn festival (Zhongqiu Jie), Beijing in China.

Referred to as the moon festival, the Mid Autumn Festival (Zhongqiu Jie) is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon and is one of the most popular festivals celebrated in Beijing.

A traditional harvest festival, Mid-autumn festival (Zhongqiu Jie) is one of the most important of the Chinese lunar festivals. It is believed that mid autumn moon symbolizes harmony in life. The festival is celebrated as a time of abundance and happiness. In the earlier times, it was the time of boom when street markets flourished selling fruits and lucky jade rabbits etc.

During the mid autumn festival (Zhongqiu Jie) people view the full moon with their family members, lovers or friends. After which the family and near and dear ones would get together and celebrate by feasting and drinking wine. They would also watch and admire the beauty of Yin and Yang uniting roundness of the full moon, which also gives the festival its other name as Zhongqiu Jie or reunion festivals.

Besides, it is a customary to eat moon cakes during the mid-autumn festival. The traditional filling of the moon cakes include mashed Chinese dates/jujubes, peanuts, walnuts, melon, sesame seeds etc. But in modern times the filling has been changed and includes ingredients like beef and green tea etc.

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