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Sep
“The Mid-Autumn Festival (Simplified Chinese: 中秋节; Traditional Chinese: 中秋節; pinyin: zhōngqiūjié), also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China‘s Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival, similar in name to a different festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year).” from Wikipedia
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There is one period of time that some Chinese trashed their own tradition, and believed that even the moon is more round in western world. Let’s see whether it is the case:
Well done!
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