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2013 Chinese Moon Festival, Stories and Moon Cake
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The Chinese Moon Festival is Chinese the second favorite festival next to Chinese New Year. The Moon Festival is called the Mid-autumn Festival in China. The festival date must be in the middle of autumn. Chinese use Chinese lunar calendar. The first day of a lunar month is the new moon day. The middle of the lunar month is close to the full moon day. Since the moon is near full, therefore there are some legendary stories attaching on the Chinese Moon Festival.
China was an agriculture country. People use Farmer's Calendar for their farming activities. The autumn season are Monkey, Chicken and Dog months in the Chinese Farmer's Calendar, which is a solar calendar. The Monkey Month begins around August 8 every year. The Mid-autumn month should be the Chicken Month, which begins around September 8 every year. Therefore, the Chinese Moon Festival is usually in the September. The Mid-autumn Festival date is from the Chinese lunar calendar. If there is a leap lunar month before September, then the date of Moon Festival might push down to early October.
When is the 2013 Chinese Moon Festival?
The date of Chinese Moon Festival (a.k.a. Mid-autumn Festival) is on the 15th
moon day of 8th Chinese lunar month (Chicken month). The new moon day is the
first day of a Chinese Lunar Month. Since the first day of 8th lunar month is 09-05-2013, the Moon Festival is on
09-19-2013 in China time zone. The Chinese Moon Festival is also on 09-19-2013 in USA time zones, since the new moon day is on the same date 9-19-2013.
| Time Zone | Longitude | New Moon Date & Time | The 15th moon day | Full Moon Date & Time |
| China | East 120 | 09-05-2013 19:37 p.m. | 09-19-2013 | 09-19-2013 19:13 p.m. |
| EST (USA) | West 75 | 09-05-2013 06:37 a.m. | 09-19-2013 | 09-19-2013 06:13 a.m. |
| PST (USA) | West 120 | 09-05-2013 03:37 a.m. | 09-19-2013 | 09-19-2013 03:13 a.m. |
Chinese Moon Festival day is on 15th moon day, which is also the full moon day. In China, the full moon time is in the evening. The full moon time in USA time zones is in the early morning. On the night of 09-19-2013 in China, the Moon will be much fuller than the one in USA. In fact, we cannot tell from the naked eyes.
The Moon Festival is a holiday in China. It's an occasion for family reunion. Chinese families like to get together to eat the moon cakes and watch the moon at the Moon Festival night. For the people are out of town or for Chinese are from China stay in USA, they miss their family or the lover at home and share the same moon at the night of the Moon Festival before the Internet gets popular.
Chinese Moon Festival day is not always on the full moon day. Actually, there is more chance that the full moon date falls on the 16th lunar day. The moon of 16th lunar usually is bigger and fuller than the one on 15rh lunar day.
The detail about the moon phase times is at Moon Phase Calendar.
Why does the Chinese eat moon cakes during Mid-Fall Festival?
Moon cake is a Chinese bakery product. Chinese exchange moon cakes as gift during the Moon Festival season. Many business Companies gift their valuable customers with boxes of moon cakes. Families will buy their favorite moon cakes for themselves. The Moon Festival Day is a national holiday in China and Taiwan. Every Chinese won't miss moon cake during the holiday. That means more than 1.3 billion moon cakes will be eaten during the week of Moon Festival each year.
Is there a Rabbit in the Moon?
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the Legendary Stories of the Moon Festival and Moon Cake.
The Chinese Mid-Fall Moon Festival Day for the coming years
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