(Yicai Global) Sept. 22 -- The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is the most important traditional Chinese festival after Chinese New Year. It falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which this year was yesterday.

People around the country celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in various ways, including gathering for dinners, eating mooncakes, lighting paper lanterns, and by simply enjoying the full moon.

An actor takes part in a novel underwater performance of the festival legend Chang’e Flying to the Moon at Wuhan Haichang Polar Ocean Park.

A group of children and their teachers create a collage of Chang’e Flying to the Moon at a kindergarten in Huzhou, Zhejiang province.

Residents of Linyi in Shandong province prepare mooncakes made by hand with peanuts, flour, sesame and other ingredients.

A family tries to solve a riddle attached to a traditional paper lantern in Zizhong county, Sichuan province.

Victoria Park in Hong Kong puts on a show of lanterns, including ones shaped like birds.

A foreign resident shows off the mooncakes she made at an event organized by the Department of Science and Technology of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Editor: Futura Costaglione