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The Mid-Autumn festival is held during the autumnal equinox to celebrate the time when the moon is in its fullest shape.
Families and friends gather together to admire the bright mid-autumn moon and eat moon cakes in its honor.
Chinese farmers celebrate the holiday as it marks the end of the summer harvesting season.
Besides eating moon cakes, locals also carry lanterns, burn incense, plant trees and perform traditional dance in the moon's honor.
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