It is the Autumn Harvest Moon. (Chung Ch’iu)
Give thanks for your Bountiful Harvest!
In Chinese thought the moon symbolizes the female principle of yin.
Women from each household will place the following on a specially prepared altar:
an image or figure of the Moon Hare
five platters of different fruit and
13 mooncakes (spicy circular cakes that represent the 13 months of the lunar year).
The women light incense,
approach the altar one by one and bow.
After this the picture/figure of the Moon Hare is burned.
Its soul is free and
it returns to the moon.
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