Suzhou Cultural Centre held an event on Sept 17 to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival which, reckoned on the fifteenth day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar, fell on the day this year.

The event included a fair where the participants gained a better understanding of folk customs related to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Following the folk customs, they guessed riddles on lanterns, and played the game designed based on the story of Chang’e, the Goddess of the Moon, and the Jade Rabbit.

Wang Liqiu, an inheritor of the handicraft of making Suzhou-style lanterns, demonstrated the whole process of making a lantern by hand, and taught 30 families to make their own lanterns for use as decorations during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

A group of youngsters in ancient Chinese costumes staged a Chinese shadow puppetry show about the legend of Chang’e flying to the moon.

The participants also read poems written by ancient Chinese poets to depict scenes of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations or their feelings about the festival.

Source：苏州工业园区融媒体中心