The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the other being the Chinese New Year, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:

<li>Eating moon cakes outside under the moon</li> <li>Putting pomelo rinds on one's head</li> <li>Carrying brightly lit <a title="Lantern" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern">lanterns</a>, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns</li> <li>Planting Mid-Autumn trees</li> <li>Collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members</li> <li>Fire Dragon Dances</li>