The festival is celebrated by Chinese around the world on the fifteenth day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar.

                 The Yellow Crane Tower

                 A wharf along the Yangtze River

A boy plays with a lantern carved from a pumpkin in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, September 18, 2005.

A girl and her parents watch the moon on the bulwark in the coastal city of Lianyuan, east Jiangsu Province.

 Fireworks blasted in Xiamen, Fujian Province, to celebrate the festival.

             Liaocheng, east China's Shangdong Province.

         Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province.

(Xinhua News Agency September 19, 2005)