2009Chinese National Day and Mid-Autumn Day holiday

Shirley / 09-28-09

The holiday for Chinese National Day and Mid-Autumn Day in 2009

 

In the year 2009, The holiday for Chinese National Day and Mid-autumn Day will meet together. Then we will have total 7 days holiday from 1^st Oct. to 7^th Oct. 

Actually, the Chinese Mid-autumn Day is counted by Chinese lunar calendar. The date rightly falls on the solar calendar 3^rd Oct this year.

So during the holiday, we may not response  your order and email in time or can not send package. Sorry for that. But you can still email me or leave me a messgae. After our holiday I will respones you. Thanks !!!

Zhong Qiu Jie" which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. Mid-Autumn is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns.
   
    "Zhong Qiu Jie" probably began as a harvest festival. The festival was later given a mythological flavour with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon.
   
    According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir of life but to save the people from his tyrannical rule, his wife, Chang-E drank it. Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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