Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival

A wonderful free event for all of our visitors with Liverpool Confucius Institute to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival. Explore traditional dance and craft activities.

Come along for calming and rhythmic traditional dance and a shadow puppet performance performances in the Treasure House Theatre at 11.45, 1.30 and 2.45. Each session will be 20 minutes of dance and 20 minutes of shadow puppet theatre.

Join in with Chinese crafts and games in the Welcome Centre from 10.30-12.30pm and 1.30-4pm.
Have a go at calligraphy and paper cutting and print your own woodblock print from a pre-cut wood plate!

Ancient Chinese emperors worshiped the moon in autumn to thank it for the harvest. Ordinary people took the Mid-Autumn Festival to be a celebration of their hard work and harvests. Nowadays, people mainly celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival as a time for family reunions.                  

The Liverpool Confucius Institute is a collaborative project between the University of Liverpool, Xi'an Jiaotong University and the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), for the promotion of Chinese language and culture.