Maffeo Sutton Park came alive with music, lights and community, as Nanaimo's first Mid-Autumn Festival was held.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Cake Festival, started more than 3,000 years ago during the post-harvest moon on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. In China, the occasion is observed as a statutory holiday that people celebrate by lighting lanterns, eating moon cakes and spending the time with family and friends.
Organized by the Nanaimo Chinese Cultural Society and Nanaimo Masonic Lodge, the first performance of the afternoon was a traditional lion dance by Victoria's Ging Wu West. Later in the evening, the same dancers gave the dance a K-pop twist, by showing that even in the lion costumes, they had (Gangnam) style.
