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Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated around China

Updated: Sep 16,2016 10:21 AM     Xinhua

Tourists try to make rice flour sculptures during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tangqi ancient town of Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, Sept 15, 2016. It is a folk custom for local people to greet the Mid-Autumn Festival by making rice flour sculptures. [Photo/Xinhua]

A boy touches the rice flour sculpture during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tangqi ancient town of Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, Sept 15, 2016. It is a folk custom for local people to greet the Mid-Autumn Festival by making rice flour sculptures. [Photo/Xinhua]

Members of the Chinese Embassy and Chinese enterprises perform during the Mid-autumn Festival celebration at the Chinese Embassy in Manama, Bahrain, Sept 14, 2016. More than 100 Chinese living or working in Bahrain took part in the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Sept 15 this year. [Photo/Xinhua]

Rice flour sculptures are displayed during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tangqi ancient town of Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, Sept 15, 2016. It is a folk custom for local people to greet the Mid-Autumn Festival by making rice flour sculptures. [Photo/Xinhua]

Combo photo shows fisherman Guo Ru (C), 81, and his family of four generations gathering to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1950s (up) and teacher and students posing with a huge moon cake to celebrate the festival in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu province, Sept 14, 2016 (bottom). The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on Sept 15 this year, has been celebrated by families reuniting under the full moon and eating moon cakes, the center piece of festive dishes. [Photo/Xinhua]