Zhōng qiū Jié中 秋 节

Mid-Autumn Festival

Hànyǔ zěnme shuō…?In Chinese how do you say…?

• Mid – Autumn Festival

Moon – 月 – yuèliang

• Is the largest of the year• “Harvest Moon”

• Jiārén kàn yuèliang. 家人 看 月亮。• Family members look at the moon.

Huí jiā – Return home 回家• “Chinese Thanksgiving”• After harvest by farmers

Chī Eat

• Yuèbǐng Mooncake

Hànyǔ zěnme shuō…?

• mooncake

• eat

• Family members…

• Family members eat mooncakes.

Also eat…

• yě chī… 也 吃。。。

• Fruit – ROUND fruit!shuǐguǒ

Mooncakes symbolize

• Round – completeness & reunion

Famous Poem• Thoughts in the Silent Night 静夜思 Li Bai

The moonlight is shining through the window

床 前 明 月 光 chuángqián míngyuè guāng

Famous Poem

And it makes me wonder if it is the frost on theground

疑 是 地 上 霜 yí shì dìshàng shuāng

Famous Poem

Looking up to see the moon ...

举 头 望 明 月 jǔ tóu wàng míngyuè

Famous Poem

Looking down I miss so much about my hometown

低 头 思 故 乡 dī tóu sī gǔxiāng

• Li Bai used his lines to express his homesickness