I just discovered this festival! Here are some details taken from:
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa093097.htm
The Moon Festival is full of legendary stories. Legend says that Chang Er flew to the moon, where she has lived ever since. You might see her dancing on the moon during the Moon Festival. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems. With the full moon, the legend, the family and the poems, you can't help thinking that this is really a perfect world. That is why the Chinese are so fond of the Moon Festival.
Happy Festival!
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Er is probably stinkin lonely up there. Unless of course they are mistaken, perhaps Um and Uh are up on the moon too.
I wonder if that is how the term Moonies came about...or more like the slang word Moonies.
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