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August the 15th according to the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. The festival is the (1) most important festival to Chinese people. Every year, when the festival (2) , people go home from every corner of the world to meet their family and have dinner with them.

Why is the Mid-Autumn Festival so (3) ? It has something to do with the moon and Chinese people like the moon very much. In Chinese culture, the full moon (4) peace and prosperity for the whole family. In the middle of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar the moon is full, and eight is also a (5) number in Chinese culture.

The main celebrations during the Mid-Autumn Festival are appreciating the moon, eating mooncakes (6) and making Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns. These three celebrations have been (7) year after year.

In some places in China people (8) the festival in different ways. In Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, people eat taros to celebrate the festival. They eat taros and hope the harvest is good in the next year. In Nanjing, people cook duck with osmanthus (桂花), because Nanjing people think osmanthus is a (9) of peace. In some places people make fires inside towers to celebrate the festival, (10) they think the fire is a symbol of good business.

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