(Yicai) Sept. 18 -- China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival yesterday with traditional activities, such as moon-viewing, lantern shows, and eating moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, symbolizes reunion. Many people returned to their hometowns for this occasion.

Children play next to a moon lantern with ancient Chinese poems written on it in a square in Huainan, Anhui province, on Sept. 16.

Migrant workers in Wuhan wait for their trains at the Wuhan Railway Station on Sept. 13 to return to their hometowns and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with their families.

Folk artists from Hengyang, Hunan province, strike iron flowers at a traditional event on Sept. 14.

Chinese kindergarten students learn how to make moon cakes in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on Sept. 12.

Flower-shaped lanterns mark the entrance of a traditional lantern show for the Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Editor: Futura Costaglione