Mid-Autumn Festival other parts of Asia. Like the Mid-Autumn Festival, these festivals have Buddhist origins and revolve around the full moon however unlike their East Asian counterparts they occur several times a year to correspond with each full moon as opposed to one day each year. The festivals that occur in the lunar months of "Ashvini" and "Kṛttikā" generally occur during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Cambodia, it is more commonly called "Full Moon Festival" by locals (as Cambodia does not have an Autumn season). Cambodians organize “the traditional festival of prostrating the moon". In that early morning, people start preparing sacrifices to
Autumn Autumn Autumn, also known as fall in US English and sometimes in Canadian English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools down considerably. One of its main features is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees. Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn", while others with a longer temperature lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere) use a definition