FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 www.kuwaittimes.net
People celebrate the lantern festival as part of the MidAutumn Festival at Victoria Park in Hong Kong yesterday. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also called the Moon Festival, is a popular East Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. The festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, which usually parallels the Autumn Equinox of the solar calendar. —AFP