date:Sep 19, 2018
After Chinese New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most important celebration in China. It falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, so the celebration changes each year. This year, the holiday falls on Sept. 24.
Families celebrate the holiday by gathering together to gaze at the moon, according to Time. They also light lanterns. Traditionally the lanterns were paper illuminated by candles, but more recently the lanterns are plastic and inflatable, lit by bulb