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. With China big rational festival, Mid-autumn Festival coming, it is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. At night the moon is usually round and bright. People can enjoy the moon while eating moon-cakes which are the special food for this festival. They can look back on the past and look forward to the future together.
Newstar Also held some activities to celebrate the mid-autumn festival, it is bring more the enthusiasm for company people to enjoy a happiness and unity and solidarity. It is like a big family when you are in Newstar.
At days, Newstar held the activities including: competition about knowledge of mid-autumn, it helps us to know more our histories. Secondly, the games, it calls “Ghost blows out the light “, people just talk in the front of candle unit candle light extinguish, light extinguish firstly, then win; thirdly, to do orange lamp it is like pumpkin lamp, various designs lamp artworks show everyone wisdom and ideas and team work spirit. Finally, a dance called “Xiao PingGuo” end of activities, very interesting dance to bring us just like rebacking to the young age life, passion, energy, youthfulness.
At the night, Newstar all people go to the Quanzhou HANGKONG hotel to have a big dinner, like family stay together to celebrate the Mid-autumn, everyone talk with joyful, peaceful, after dinner, most climax moment, Moon-cake gambling, it is an important Mid-Autumn Festival custom in the Minnan area, which is centered around Xiamen. From history, Zheng Chenggong, He invented moon cake gambling on Mid-Autumn Festival to help relieve homesickness among his troops. The games rules :people stand or sit beside the square table, staring at the big bowls, gamble disc to show First, second, a vice-mayor, jinshi, juren, the resulting, and then get the corresponding gifts. Good luck people bring many gifts back home from gamble disc and others just small. It is very classic game in Mid-autumn festival.