The Early Beginnings of Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

History of the Early Beginnings of the Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival has been celebrated for more that two thousand year and can be trace to the early Zhou Dynasty where celebrating the moon during mid-autumn appears to have occurred since Zhou Dynasty (ending in 221BC ) where during this period the night of the roundest moon of the year was an occasion for the Chinese to hold rituals to greet the cool weather and sacrifice to the Moon Goddess at that times, it was during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) that the festival was made official. Becoming grander over time, by Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) times, the mid-autumn festival was second only in importance to the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year).

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The Moon festival for 2008 (also called the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn festival) falls on This September 14th 2008