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First Mid-Autumn holiday helps fulfill wishes for family reunions
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-14 21:30 He said that after devastating disasters this year, Chinese people preferred a peaceful and consoling break such as family reunions over long-distance travels. Folk experts held that the Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to the Spring Festival, or China's Lunar New Year, in conveying the core value of the Chinese nation -- family values. This was why some law makers like Fan Yi, rector of the Foreign Languages College of Ningbo University in east China's Zhejiang Province, proposed to turn the festival into a national holiday last year. "The Mid-Autumn holiday has the power to ease the home-bound travel spree in the Spring Festival, and help revive traditional values in the modern time," he said. The festival tradition reminds people living far away from their native lands for better education conditions or better-paid jobs to go back to their family roots, he said. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, falls on the 15th day of August on the lunar calendar. It is celebrated in many Asian countries. |
