The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important Chinese holiday of the year (after Lunar New Year/Spring Festival). It’s a time to get together with family, eat, worship the moon, and celebrate the fall harvest! 

This year, 2023, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 29, 2023. The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the year’s harvest. The holiday stretches back 3,000 years, when the Chinese worshipped the moon as a symbol of rejuvenation and a good harvest. Today, the holiday is all about family togetherness. 

Mooncakes are a special and decadent gift this time of year, and all the stores and restaurants in China go all out with their own mooncakes, wrapped in beautiful boxes and colorful tins for gift-giving. If you’re going to someone’s house for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the best gift is a box of mooncakes! 

WINIW The Mid-Autumn Festival Gathering