The Mid-Autumn Festival is also significant in other Asian countries: it's called called Chuseok in Korea, Tsukimi in Japan and Bon Om Touk in Cambodia.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also associated with a couple of different myths involving the reunion between the Moon Goddess of Immortality, Chang’e, and her husband, an archer named Hou Yi.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (known as Zhōngqiū Jié in Mandarin and Tsukimi in Japan), is one of the most celebrated traditions in Southeast Asia, second only to the Chinese New Year.

What is Chuseok and the Mid-Autumn Festival? Chuseok is a major harvest festival and three-day holiday in Korea that typically takes place in late September or early October, the group's ...

In Korea, the Mid Autumn festival is known as Chuseok —the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving. At Soju Pocha, the small hole-in-the-wall is celebrating the holiday with a special set menu of ...

Mid-Autumn Festival became an official celebration in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) but there isn’t one single answer to the question of when and how the annual event began.

The holiday also is called the Mooncake festival in Chinese, and similar Mid-Autumn festivals celebrated include Tsukimi in Japan, Tết Trung Thu in Vietnam, and Chuseok in Korean.