Mid-Autumn Festival
中秋节
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture. Similar holidays are celebrated by other cultures in East and Southeast Asia.
It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture; its popularity is on par with that of Chinese New Year. The history of the Mid-Autumn Festival dates back over 3,000 years. The festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the Chinese believe that the Moon is at its brightest and fullest size, coinciding with harvest time in the middle of Autumn.
Also called the Mooncake Festival or the Moon Festival, it is the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year.
In 2023, the festival falls on September 29, which is close to China’s National Day on October 1.
It is also celebrated by many other countries, such as America (mainly in the Asian American community), Singapore, and Malaysia. The date is the same as in China, but there is no public holiday.
This is not the first time Dimash has been to China and participated, singing, in this celebration
You and Me
2018
Dimash & Wang Li
Mid-Autumn Festival Gala 2023
Thousands of Miles, a Common Dream
2023
Dimash & Tan Weiwei
Tan Weiwei (also known as Sitar Tan, Chinese singer and actress) was the runner-up of the third season (2006) of Super Girl (Chinese: 超级女声), a singing contest in China.
In 2015, she participated in I Am a Singer (season 3).
Sichuan Yibin - Tian Quan Cave
Over 4 billion! The beautiful and romantic 2023 Autumn Gala once again won praise from global audiences
CCTV’s huge audience for this event is detailed HERE.
On the evening of September 29, the “China Central Radio and Television Station 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala” arrived as scheduled, accompanying Chinese people around the world to celebrate the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
As of 22:00 on September 29, the CCTV’s multiple channels broadcast the Autumn Gala live, with a total ratings of 3.34% and a total audience of 130 million people; the CCTV’s new media multi-platform live broadcast exceeded 132 million times. The program received more than 500 hot searches on the internet, related topics were read more than 4 billion times, and related videos were played more than 1.5 billion times on the internet.
Full Gala video
This year, “Watching the Autumn Gala in Vertical Screen” was launched for the first time, and the number of hits on the entire network exceeded 100 million. Netizens were full of praise for the “synesthetic” viewing experience, and the interactive messages kept flooding the screen. They all said: “Watching the Autumn Gala on the vertical screen on a mobile phone is a brand new experience, full of immersion.” “You can find a lot of stage design in the vertical screen Autumn Gala.” Small ingenuity, full of details.”
With much love,
for Dimash
