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Discuss “Asian food, music, and dancing make up the Mid-Autumn Festival”

Last Friday, students from the Singapore Student Association (SSA) and Awareness of Roots in Chinese Culture (ARCC) held a Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Full Moon Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. During this time, beginning in August and ending in September, the moon?s orbit is at the lowest angle to the horizon. Often referred to as the Harvest or Hunter?s Moon in the West, it marks the middle of autumn with respect to the lunar calendar.

This festival and the Chinese Lunar New Year are the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar.

As lanterns designed to resemble the moon hung from the walls, the audience was entertained with songs about family coming home, martial arts demonstrations,...

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