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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon. This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits vegetables and grains had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates, melons, oranges and pomelos might be seen. Special foods for the festival included mooncakes, cooked taro and water caltrope, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival. The round mooncakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an old festival of China . It is said to commemoratea hero HouYi and his wife Changer .The day in the fifteenth day of the eighth month. The day ,people often reunion every family.Everyone will eat moon cakes in the guard and hold a memorial ceremony for the moon-detiy. 月饼 ( yuabǐng): n. moon cake 团圆/ 团聚 ( tu ányuán/ tu ánj ù): n. reunion yuabǐng sh ì yu án x íng de , xi àngzhēng tu ányuán, 月 饼 是 圆 形 的 ， 象 征 团 圆， f ǎnyìngle r?nmen du ì ji ār?