Chinese National Holiday and Mid-Autumn Festival

For 国庆节, the Chinese National Holiday, we had four days off. It would have been eight days, but we already had that H1N1 week off. It was very festive all around town with red lanterns and huge balloons marking the major 60th anniversary of modern China. We also celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), of course, with moon cakes and gazing up at the moon.

The town square in Xiuning was adorned with many Chinese National Holiday paraphernalia, like the giant 60.


Also in the town square, there was an outdoor photo gallery of the scenic and truly rural places in Xiuning County. They were very beautiful, and they captured what I thought was the "hidden treasures" of what is often cast aside as just a poor farmer's land.


Moon cakes were so plentiful during Mid-Autumn Festival that our local bread shop had tables outside the store to sell them.