The mid-September moon draws people out for annual moon viewing parties.

I suppose this harks back to agricultural traditions, when the nation’s rice was harvested by hand and farmers had to work late into the night to get the harvest in before the typhoon rains started.

Now the moon viewing parties mainly mean lots of pretty candies imprinted with full moon and rice patterns on display in stores. Posted by kuri at September 17, 2000 09:40 AM