Time

Time is also another element among the best interesting facts about the Mid-Autumn Festival. As its name suggests, this event takes place during the middle of autumn, when the moon is in the roundest phase and people are preparing for their harvest. Initially, the festival happened on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, which usually falls between September and early October in the Gregorian calendar.

The special feature of the Mid-Autumn Festival is its varying dates in different countries that depend on their lunar calendar. In China, as stated before, the celebration day is the 15th day of the eighth month. The Mid-Autumn event in South China falls not in autumn but the late summer, while the North China, where there are short summers and long winters, this festival is aptly named climatically as mid-autumn.

In other countries, this festival shares the same day as China's. In Malaysia and Singapore, the moon festival does not correspond to September or early October in the Gregorian calendar but is often earlier due to the movement of the moon.