Countryside, culture popular with tourists

Visiting farms and participating in folk customs were popular activities for tourists during Mid-Autumn Festival holiday from Saturday to Monday, according to a report released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Monday.

The holiday coincided with the first Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival on Sunday, which featured events popular with visitors like picking vegetables on farms.

The harvest festival, launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, coincided with the autumnal equinox, one of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar.