{"id":8527,"date":"2015-09-24T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2015-09-24T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:08:07","slug":"mid-autumn-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/mid-autumn-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Full moon fever at the Mid-Autumn festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Autumn Festival, also\u00a0known as Mooncake Festival, is\u00a0a traditional\u00a0harvest celebration, associated with the full moon, in which people spend the night with their families giving thanks and lighting lanterns. Although most famous in\u00a0China it is also celebrated in\u00a0some Southeast and Northeast Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/817-359710\/midautumn-mooncake-festival-kuching-waterfront-sarawak-malaysia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6531 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.robertharding.com\/embed\/817-359710.jpg\" alt=\"Mid-Autumn Mooncake Festival 2011 at Kuching Waterfront, Sarawak, Malaysia\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mid-Autumn Mooncake Festival at Kuching Waterfront, Sarawak, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/797-9535\/chinese-midautumn-harvest-festival-celebrated-lighting-lanterns-eating\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6530 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.robertharding.com\/embed\/797-9535.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese mid-autumn harvest festival is celebrated by lighting lanterns and eating mooncakes These large silk lanterns depicting various scenes of Chinese mythology light up the river, Festivals, Singapore\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These large silk lanterns depicting various scenes of Chinese mythology light up the river, Singapore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/150-2079\/midautumn-lantern-festival-hong-kong-china-asia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6528 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.robertharding.com\/embed\/150-2079.jpg\" alt=\"Mid-Autumn Lantern festival, Hong Kong, China, Asia\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mid-Autumn Lantern festival, Hong Kong, China<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/735-8966\/people-celebrating-midautumn-festival-quarry-bay-park-hong\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6529 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.robertharding.com\/embed\/735-8966.jpg\" alt=\"People celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival at Quarry Bay Park, Hong Kong\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival at Quarry Bay Park, Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/?lang=en&amp;page=search&amp;s=mid+autumn+festival&amp;smode=0&amp;license=2&amp;zoom=1&amp;display=5&amp;sortby=0&amp;bgcolour=white&amp;orientation%5B%5D=0&amp;orientation%5B%5D=1&amp;orientation%5B%5D=2&amp;orientation%5B%5D=3\" target=\"_blank\">See more photos of Mid-Autumn Festival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Autumn Festival, also\u00a0known as Mooncake Festival, is\u00a0a traditional\u00a0harvest celebration, associated with the full moon, in which people spend the night with their families giving thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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