The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival (traditional Chinese: 中秋節; simplified Chinese: 中秋节; pinyin: Zhōngqiūjié; Vietnamese: Tết Trung Thu), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty.[1] In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. It is also related to the important Korean holiday of Chuseok.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.
中秋節起源於中國，是東亞民間的一個傳統節日，為每年農曆的八月十五。中秋節不單單是華人的節慶，受中華文化的影響，中秋節也是日本、越南、朝鮮半島等地的傳統節日。
按照中國的農曆，八月為秋季的第二個月，古時稱為仲秋，因此民間稱為中秋，又稱秋夕、八月節、八月半、月夕、月節，又因為這一天月亮滿圓，象徵團圓，又稱為團圓節。
wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
中文 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
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