Asian Mid-Autumn Festival 2026

China's Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 🏮 Giant Lanterns, Lion Dance, and Spectacular Full Moon Festivities 🔥

Thirteen months of moonshine every year (WQ)

(Peaceful Countryside) Experience the magic of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2026, where giant lanterns, lion dance performances, traditional music, mooncakes, and glowing night celebrations come together under the full moon.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in Chinese culture, associated with family reunion, moon viewing, lanterns, mooncakes, and wishes for happiness and togetherness.

This special presentation captures the beauty and excitement of a festive night filled with color, tradition, and cultural energy.

• Buddhist lunar observance: Uposatha
• Buddhism in Taiwan
• Chinese Buddhism
• Buddhism in Southeast Asia
• #MidAutumnFestival

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The Mid-Autumn Festival

Chang'e flies to Moon (Gutenberg)

Also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, this grand celebration is an ancient harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture (throughout the Sinosphere).

It occurs on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, which can fall between Sept. 7th and Oct. 8th (inclusive) of the West's Gregorian calendar [1, 2]. On this day, the Chinese believe the Moon is at its fullest and brightest, coinciding with the time of harvest in the middle of autumn [3].

Moon Goddess Chang'e

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays and celebrations in Chinese culture. The history of the festival dates back now over 3,000 years [4, 5]. Similar festivals are celebrated by other cultures in East and Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia.

During the festival, lanterns of all sizes and shapes – symbolizing beacons that light the path toward prosperity and good fortune for the people – are carried, displayed, and set aloft.

Mooncakes, a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed paste, are eaten during this time of celebration [6, 7, 8].

Tang Dynasty mirror: Moon Goddess, Rabbit

The Mid-Autumn Festival is based on the legend of the Moon Goddess Chang'e (and her trusty Moon Rabbit) in Chinese mythology [9].

It is an official holiday in both mainland China [10] and the island-nation of Taiwan [11]. The day after the Mid-Autumn Festival is an official holiday in both Hong Kong [12] and Macau [13]. More

🏮 Festival Highlights

• 🌕 Spectacular full moon celebration
• 🏮 Giant lantern displays and illuminated streets
• 🦁 Energetic lion dance performances
• 🥮 Traditional mooncakes and festive food
• 🎶 Chinese traditional music and drums
• 🎭 Cultural performances and colorful costumes
• ✨ Glowing lantern release and magical night scenes
• 🏯 Beautiful traditional Chinese festival atmosphere
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family reunion and community celebration
• 🎥 Stunning cinematic festival scenes in 4K
• 🌕 Celebrating the lunar deity (Goddess Chang'e)

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From massive lantern displays to powerful lion dances and peaceful full-moon moments, this video utilizes AI to celebrate the beauty, tradition, family spirit, and cultural heritage of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and to watch the festivities from all angles.

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Mid Autumn Festival story and how Chinese celebrate it

The Moon Goddess Chang'e (Ming Dynasty)

(chinahighlights) The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, which is in late September/early October on the Gregorian calendar. The most famous legend of how the Mid-Autumn Festival began is the romantic love story between HouYi and Chang’e. Learn more at: bit.ly/2k45aza.

See the most popular Mid-Autumn greetings at: bit.ly/2NMPvRC. Ten interesting things about Mid-Autumn Festival:  bit.ly/2Nj0jaQ. Daily updates on FB with interesting things about Chinese culture: bit.ly/3wl2VGO. Learn Chinese: bit.ly/3hgkHGW. To use this video, please contact nora@chinahighlights.com.

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📌 NOTE: This video is an AI-generated artistic recreation for documentary, educational, entertainment, and storytelling purposes. It is inspired by Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival traditions, giant lantern celebrations, lion dances, moon-viewing customs, and lantern-release scenes. It does not contain authentic official event footage or represent an official festival, livestream, or broadcast. #MidAutumnFestival #MidAutumnFestival2026 #ChinaMidAutumnFestival #ChineseFestival #GiantLanterns #LionDance #FullMoonFestival #MoonFestival #LanternFestival #Mooncakes #Chinesefullmoon #LanternParade #ChinaFestival2026

• CC Liu, Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Sept. 24, 2026, Wisdom Quarterly; Shen Dan

Mid-Autumn Fest, Hsi Lai, Los Angeles

Who possesses Buddha-nature?

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Like Guanyin, Moon Goddess Chang'e shines.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, held in the month of September, is a community event that inspires mindfulness and reflection as friends and family gather together.

In keeping with Taiwanese and Chinese cultural tradition, treats such as rice ball desserts and yummy mooncakes are offered to the community.

Often, the youth make paper lanterns to adorn the festivities of the event or perform musical performances for the Buddhist community.

I am a lotus ready to bloom here and now.

As everyone contributes in some way to the event, both generosity and gratefulness can be observed in action.

Under the West Coast's bright full moon for the Mid-Autumn Festival, we often reflect on our own bright intrinsic Buddha-nature -- an inherent purity and perfection of the heart/mind. Similar to how sometimes the light of the Moon is hidden behind clouds, our own difficulties and hardships can sometimes obscure our intrinsic (and fundamentally good) nature.

Buddhist nuns sit under moon with American visitors for tea in courtyard of massive LA temple

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Our Buddha-nature will shine through

It is through right-practice and right-mindfulness that we can dispel the dark clouds from our own minds/hearts and reveal the full splendor of our Buddha-nature, our innate capacity to attain enlightenment (bodhi) and liberation (nirvana), awakening to the great ultimate truths of existence.

"Coming West" (Hsi Lai) Temple welcomes all to share in this reflection while spending time with family and friends and visiting this nunnery and monastic complex during this month. More: Hsi Lai Temple

• Hsi Lai Calendar of Events
• Coming West Temple Programs
• Hsi Lai Vegetarian Food and Toy Drive
• Magical Lantern Festival at Coming West

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  Like a lotus, I can blossom in mud.

  The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtras use the image of a Buddha (a fully awakened being) inside a lotus flower as a metaphor for the tathāgatagarbha: Sanskrit तथागतगर्भ, buddha-dhātu, sugata-garbha, buddha-garbha  (a "womb for a buddha," us realizing our intrisnic Buddha-nature as human beings in this world that seems so far from budhhahood). The term Tathāgata-garbha can mean "the womb" or "embryo"... More
• Hsi Lai Temple (hsilai.org/en); CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tai chi (chi gong) is NOT an exercise

(TangSaying) "Tai chi" was never an exercise | What the original actually says

Tai chi is today thought of as a Chinese martial art created for combat and self-defense, but that is tai chi chuan, chuan meaning "fist."

For most practitioners, it has (d)evolved into an "exercise," a relaxation technique, and a sport. As an exercise and relaxation technique, tai chi is practiced in set sequences known as "forms" (taolu), usually in gentle, flowing, circular motions that are often described as "meditation in motion," though they may also be performed in faster and more vigorous routines.

As a sport, competitors are judged on their performance in forms, pushing hands, and free sparring. As a martial art, practitioners master the applications of forms and partner work for effective self-defense.

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  Master Lam practicing in Sichuan

  Qigong (Chi gong) is the movement of energy: It is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation [2] said to be useful for the purposes of spirituality, health, and self-defense martial arts training [3]. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate and balance the mystical life-force chi or qi [4]. Qigong practice typically involves moving meditation, coordinating slow-flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm meditative state of mind. People qigong worldwide for meditation, recreation, exercise, relaxation, preventive medicine, self-healing, alternative medicine, self-cultivation, and training for martial arts [2].

One implies the other in pairs. It is not balance

Many styles of tai chi are practiced, both traditional and modern. While the precise origins are not known, the earliest well-documented practice began during the Ming-Qing transition at Chen Village and Zhabao Village in Henan on the North China Plain, a region where centuries of rebellions, invasions, and adverse economic and social conditions nurtured the development of a wide range of martial arts, including those of the Shaolin (Kung Fu) Buddhist Monastery on Mount Song at the western edge of the plain.

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Most modern styles trace their development to five traditional schools:

1. Chen,
2. Yang,
3. Wu (Hao),
4. Wu,
5. Sun.

In the early 20th century, Yang Chengfu, Wu Jianquan, Sun Lutang, and others promoted and standardized the art for its health benefits in programs supported by the Nationalist government.

This approach was further expanded and institutionalized by the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) government after 1949. In 2020, tai chi was included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More

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Yi Long Ma (Chinese 马一龙, Pinyin yī lóng ma) was born Liu Xingjun (Chinese 刘星君, Pinyin Liú Xīngjūn) [2].

He is a Chinese martial artist, kickboxer, Wushu, and practitioner of other martial arts who competes in Super Welterweight, Welterweight, and Super Middleweight divisions. Born in Dezhou, Shandong [2], he is self-trained in Shaolin Kung Fu [3].

In 2007, he became the Guangdong Foshan International Wing Chun champion. In the summer of 2009, he began to fight in Wu Lin Fen [4]. Yi Long previously called himself the "Number 1 Shaolin Kung Fu Monk" despite the Shaolin Buddhist Temple in 2010 claiming the fighter is unaffiliated with them [5]. More

Secret of the Golden Flower: Taoism

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The Secret of the Golden Flower (Chinese 太乙金華宗旨, Pinyin Tàiyǐ Jīnhuá Zōngzhǐ) is a Chinese Taoist traditional medical textbook on neidan (inner alchemy) meditation, which also mixes Mahayana Buddhist teachings with some Confucian thoughts [1]. These are the three blended traditions of China.

 

It was written by means of the spirit-writing (fuji) technique, through two groups, in 1688 and 1692 [2]. It addresses the nature of the Tao.

After publication of the translation by Richard Wilhelm, with commentary by Jungian psychologist Carl Jung, it became modernly popularized among Westerners as a Chinese "religious classic."

It is read in psychological circles for analytical and transpersonal psychology considerations of Taoist meditations [3, 4], although it received little attention in the East [1]. More

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A calming Taoist story

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The real meaning of Yin and Yang ☯️

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Yin-Yang is NOT about balance

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Yin Yang is much deeper than thought | I Ching, Yin-Yang, trigrams, Chinese philosophy

(Queen Mandarin) Readers have probably seen these symbols in Chinese restaurants, kung fu movies, the Korean flag... But most people have no idea what they actually mean.

Today, let’s talk about the I Ching, not as magic, not as fortunetelling, but as one of humanity’s oldest attempts to understand change.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:23 The idea of change: What and why?
• 00:58 Yin and Yang, symbols and meanings
• 02:51 The Four Stages
• 03:12 The 8 trigrams, with examples
• 06:44 The 64 hexagrams, with examples
• 09:25 Magic? Fortunetelling?

#IChing #YinYang #ChineseCulture #AncientChina #Philosophy #Taoism #Yijing #ChineseLanguage #EastAsia #Symbolism

Whether learning Chinese for the first time or simply curious about the hidden stories in characters, this video will make viewers see Chinese in a whole new way. 👉 Remember to like 👍, comment 💬, and subscribe 🔔 for more fun explorations of Chinese characters. #IChing #YinYang #ChineseCulture Support my work via Paypal: paypal.me/JiayiWu83 Or via SUPER THANKS button under the video

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• Bujang Valley
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• Mount Jerai Mountain
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Zen: ordering life Taoist way (Lao Tzu)

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Zen Comics (Ioanna Salajan)

The root of Zen "Buddhism": Taoism is a philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao 道, the way of non-interference, going with the flow.

With a range of meaning in Chinese philosophy, Tao has been translated as "way," "road," "path," "technique," generally understood as "natural," an enigmatic process of transformation underlying ultimate reality [2, 3].

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Taoist thought and tradition have informed the development of various practices like Zen, including forms of meditation (cultivation), astrology, qigong (moving chi), feng shui (arrangement of our environment), and internal alchemy [4].

A common goal of Taoist practice is self-cultivation, a deeper appreciation of the Tao (akin to the Vedic concept of Brahman, GOD, or Nature), and a more harmonious existence.

Taoist ethics generally emphasize virtues of effortless action (wu wei), naturalness (ziran), simplicity, and the three treasures of compassion, frugality, and humility. [It seems that most of what Western practitioners is Zen Buddhism is actually rooted in Taoism and Confucianism.] More

• Yellow River Civilization
• Yellow River, China

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The Yellow River Civilization (黃河文明 or Huanghe Valley Civilization): Hwan‐huou Civilization is an ancient [proto-] Chinese civilization that prospered in the middle and lower basin of the Yellow River [1]. Agriculture (particularly millet cultivation) was started in the flood plain of the Yellow River, and before long, through flood control and the irrigation of the Yellow River, cities were developed and political power found reinforcement. One of the "four major civilizations of the ancient world," it is often included in textbooks of East Asian history. But the idea of including only the Yellow River Civilization as one of the four biggest ancient civilizations has become outdated as a result of the discovery of other early cultures in China, such as the Yangtze and Liao civilizations. The area saw the Yangshao and Longshan cultures of the Neolithic era and developed into the bronze ware culture of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. More

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Jackie Chan on Bruce Lee, Steven Seagal

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I will kick your @ss right here, Chinaman!

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This cat right here is Matt Ricard

Steven Seagal meeting Western Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard in Vancouver (wiki)

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This is not a dyed toupee, OK?

Steven Frederic Seagal (April 10, 1952) is a Jewish American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, musician [2], and possibly a Russian national who is a personal friend of Pres. Vlad Putin. A 7th-dan black belt and shihan in Aikikai aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan, where he became the first non-Japanese and American to operate an aikido dojo [3, 4, 5]. He later moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above the Law, which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences [6]. More

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