People in various parts of Jiangsu province staged various folklore activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival to express their yearning for a better life and conveying the strong feelings of family and country.
Traditional folk customs light up the Mid-Autumn Festival night, and the museums in Jiangsu allow the excellent traditional Chinese culture to be inherited in a festive atmosphere.
Suzhou Stele Inscription Museum and Wu Culture Museum launched activities such as the life exhibition of Chang'an people in the capital of Tang Dynasty, painting and graffiti of national treasures, cultural relics, etc.
Young people in Lianyungang and Changzhou participate in the traditional cultural parties of the Mid-Autumn Festival by chanting poems and admiring the moon to experience the beauty of Chinese culture in the long rhyme of poetry.
Museums in Zhenjiang and Suqian launched Mid-Autumn Festival traditional handicraft activities to let young people understand the Mid-Autumn Festival "image ambassadors" such as Chang'e and Yutu, conveying the Mid-Autumn Festival traditional culture of family reunion, and adding a new artistic conception to the festival.
Gui Renpeng, Deputy Director, Office for Ethical and Cultural Progress of Lianyun District, Lianyungang city
Holding the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations will help enrich the people’s festival cultural life, enhance the youth’s understanding of the connotation of traditional culture, enhance cultural self-confidence, and better promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Folklore activities in various parts of Jiangsu opened the "Mid-Autumn Fantasy Night".
In a traditional moon worship ceremony in Huai'an city, actors dressed in Han Chinese clothing burned incense, offered wine, and read blessings against the bright moon, praying for the people to reunite and prosper, and the motherland to be prosperous and strong.
In Changjing Ancient Town in Jiangyin and Huangqiao Ancient Town in Taizhou, the garden activities integrating delicacies and intangible cultural heritage were so dizzying as to let the people feel the traditional festival atmosphere amid laughter.
