Mid-Autumn Festival

Chinese traditional holiday of the lunar calendar.

中秋节

Circle mini-book; notebooking pages; extra graphics.

Topics of study: Mid-Autumn Festival http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/zhongqiu/zhongqiu.html History of Mooncakes http://www.regit.com/hongkong/festival/mooncake.htm http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/moon_e/html/eat.htm Lunar Calendar http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/html_e/moon.htm Phases of the Moon; Harvest Moon http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/harvest/ http://www.moonphases.info/links.asp?site=277 Chinese Myths regarding Moon http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/moon_e/moon.htm

= moon

Mid-Autumn Festival

中秋节

back

天上有月亮圆,地上

的家人全.

In the sky, the moon is round;

on earth, the family is reunited.

Cut from edge to exact center.

Circle book page 1

On the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, the moon is full and appears larger than during any other month.

Families in China like to get together and look at the moon.

While they look at the moon, they enjoy eating moon cakes.

= moon

= cake

YUE BING

Circle book page 2

Print both pages of the circle book and affix them together,

matching the faint dotted line. Cut on dotted line from edge to

exact center of circle.

Draw your own pictures of the full moon, a family together,

and moon cakes in the empty parts.

Fold in fourths so that title page “Mid-Autumn Festival” in on

top.

Circle book page 3 — directions and

Extra graphics

月 This is the Chinese character for

MOON (yue).

Write it before = moon. (2xs)

饼 This is the Chinese character for CAKE

(BING).

Write it before = cake.

月饼 YUE BING

MOON CAKE

中秋节 Zhong Qiu Jie

Mid-Autumn Festival

Extra graphics

Extra graphics

中

秋

节

Mid-Autumn Festival

中

秋

节

Mid-Autumn Festival

中

秋

节

Mid-Autumn Festival

中

秋

节

Mid-Autumn Festival

中

秋

节

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mooncakes

Mooncakes

Harvest Moon

Clip art —

Harvest Moon Mooncakes