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Panda Mooncake Festival
Posted by Jeroen Jacobs | Date: 2011 09 13 | In:
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people. The celebration became popular during the early Tang Dynasty. The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar, close to the autumnal equinox.
Many pandas in China love to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by eating Mooncakes…
Click on the articles to read more about the Mooncake Festival at:
Chengdu Panda Base
Jinbao Paradise Animal Park, Weifang
Nanshan Zoo, Yantai
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