[header] How to enjoy a chinese moon festival [title] Understand what this festival is about. [step] The mid-autumn festival is an important event on the chinese and vietnamese calendars, a time of family reunion and celebration. It is a lunar harvest festival and has rituals that date back as long ago as 3 , 000 years. 
The festival is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the chinese calendar, falling close to the autumnal equinox. It is a time of lanterns, story-telling, mooncakes, dragon or lion dancing and matchmaking.