Mid-Autumn festival is one of the big traditional events celebrated by Chinese people. Friends and families need no excuse to get together to feast and share moon cakes, and  there stories and customs that capture the common identity for the Chinese, and their cultural meanings.

The children here are reciting a classic poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Li Bai. It is an ode to the bright moon which evokes the poet’s longing for home. Over the centuries, the Chinese have attributed meanings to the moon, and folk tales were formed around it.

According to folk custom experts that people have long used the moon to express their emotions and tales such as the Goddess of the moon and jade rabbit living on it, have long been familiar to Chinese.

The symbolisms are also deep in the custom of eating moon cakes. It’s never a question of whether to eat these sweet treats on mid-Autumn festival, but how to eat it.For example, within four members in the family, they cut it into four pieces. And when they are pieced together it becomes a complete circle, which represents the completeness of family life and the joy of reunion.

More and more parents are growingly aware of the need to pass onto their children the rich symbolisms hidden in Chinese culture. And the mid-Autumn festival will surely be one of the most important lessons.