Harvest moon

Praying for a good harvest. 中秋節快樂.

And a Zhongquijie Kuaile back at you, deanzaZZR.

Sorry, that should have been Zhongqiujie. U does not necessarily follow Q in hanyu pinyin.

Damn! Zhongqiujie. Need my caffeine fix before posting!

I think this very nice picture is of the top of the Umeda Sky Tower Building.

But the full moon is today. Yesterday you could see it was not a perfect circle.

Amazing moon..

Amazing Japan..

Watched the moon last night it was supposed to be a "blood moon" but I didn't see that. The full moon is Sept. 18 @ 11:34 am. Like now.

f the moon were that close to earth we would all drown from the ocean tide. Keep it real JT.

f the moon were that close to earth we would all drown from the ocean tide.

But as it's only the same width as about 40 people, its effect on tides is surely minimal. :-)

(Maybe it's time to try and calculate how far away the camera is. )

f the moon were that close to earth we would all drown from the ocean tide. Keep it real JT.

’Perspective compression effect’.

What is fundamentally funny is that a majority of Japanese holidays/festivals have ancient Chinese roots (look at a calendar) yet the JT non-Japanese minions seem to reject anything related culturally to China. It's a self-hate sort of thing if they are even aware of it.

deanZZR, seems you are a bit amiss re the festival in Chinese history. Since the Yuan Dynasty the festival has acquired a revolutionary connotation, or more exactly a han-nationalistic sentiment against "foreign barbarians" who purportedly ruled China oppressively. If you talk to people in the recently exiled Hong Kong overseas community this week, they will show you photos of their mooncakes with anti-CCP slogans baked onto them. The element of rebelliousness, however, has been suppressed by the current Chinese and Hong Kong governments, quite understandably. Hundreds of years ago, before all that politics, the festival had just been one of the more important dates on the lunar calendar, pure and simple. The Japanese celebrate the festival more from the calendar-season perspective, as the political connotations are quite irrelevant to them. Many foreigners who have been in Japan for a long time understand that too and can make a distinction between the different ways of talking about and celebrating the festival. Hope this helps.

@xin xin

Yes, but that is all irrelevant, as deanza said, the festival has its roots in Chinese tradition.

Although I am getting thumbs down for saying the full moon is today, it may be yesterday in America but it is today in Japan. Look at a Japanese calendar if you don't believe me.　https://www.arachne.jp/onlinecalendar/mangetsu/

Can't we just enjoy the moon without the "it's our culture mid-autumn, acknowledge you just stole it" posts.