Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th of the 8th month according to the Chinese lunar calendar. It takes its name from the fact that it is always celebrated in the middle of the autumn season. The day is also known as the Moon Festival, as at that time of the year the moon is at its roundest and brightest. This year, we celebrated it on the 24th of September in Gongcheng, Guangxi.

To Chinese people, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a special day for family reunion. On this day, Chinese people like to gather together with their family members to admire the full moon and have mooncakes together. Mooncake is a kind of round (or sometimes rectangular) sweet pastry, with red bean or lotus seed paste and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs as its filling covered with a thin and soft golden baked crust. We tried to make a new popular kind of mooncake, ice crust mooncake, by our own hands. The crust of it is made of sticky rice and its normal color is white. We added dragon fruit juice into the paste, so some of them were pink. It was a little bit sweet and chewy!

In some parts of China, people will also hold lantern show and also guess the riddles on lanterns. The middle of September is also the season for the osmanthus flower. On Mid-Autumn festival, people will also taste the osmanthus wine and enjoy the view of osmanthus flowers as well as its sweet smell.

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