- Chinese Festivals: The Mid-Autumn Festival
Describes origins of the festival and the different celebrated forms.
www.chinavoc.com/festivals/Midautumn.htm
- Harvest Moon Festival
The legend, lanterns, and moon cakes.
www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/moon.htm
- Holidays and Festivals in Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival
Explaining the legends of the Moon festival including eating moon cakes, Chang O flees to the Moon, Wu Kang chops down the Cassia tree, and the jade rabbit grinds medicine.
www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/moon_e/moon.htm
- Family Culture: Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival
Family holiday with star lanterns and mooncakes.
www.familyculture.com/holidays/tettrungthu.htm
- Family Culture: August Moon Festival
Provides mooncake recipes and the legend of the Moon Maiden.
www.familyculture.com/holidays/augustmoonfest.htm
- About.com: Moon Festival
Includes legend of the Mid-Autumn festival and recipes of variety of moon cakes.
chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa091099.htm
- Moon Festival, The
Offers a brief introduction to the holiday and poems.
www.chinavista.com/experience/moon/moon.html
- Wikipedia: Mid-Autumn Festival
Brief article describes the Chinese tradition, where family members and friends gather to visit scenic spots, gaze at the moon, and eat mooncakes and pomeloes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Festival
- Travel in Taiwan Festivals: The Mid-Autumn Festival
Presents the history and traditions of the festival, including legends of the moon and the customs behind moon cakes.
www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/festivals/0995_MidAutumn.html
- Chinese Moon Festival
Offers background information of moon festival and recipes of moon cakes for students.
www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__moon_festi.html
- Moon Festival in China
Celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar.
www.chinapage.org/Moon/moon-festival.html
- Tet Trung Thu
Guide to celebrate the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn festival for adoptive families of Vietnamese children including activities, recipes, and articles.
www.adoptvietnam.org/vietnamese/celebrations-autumn.htm
- 2004 Chinese Moon Festival
Background and legendary stories about the festival that takes place on the 15th moon day of 8th Chinese lunar month, or Chicken month.
www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/midfall2004.htm
- Mid Autumn Festival
Learn the legend and celebration of the Moon festival, and enjoy a variety of mooncake recipes and lanterns.
kevdesign.com/midautumnfestival
- Sun SITE: The Moon Festival
Explains the myths and legends of the Chinese Moon Festival. Also in Thai.
sunsite.au.ac.th/thailand/special_event/moon
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