Daily News | Eight things you never knew about the Mid-Autumn Festival in Philly’s Chinatown
The Mid-Autumn Festival returns to the streets of Chinatown on Saturday, a live resumption of the big holiday celebration following two years of online events. The 27th annual festival starts at noon, featuring musical performances, carnival games, and the ever-popular mooncake-eating contest. It also comes amid uncertainty, evident even in the festival logo, which depicts Chinatown demonstrators demanding an end to anti-Asian hate crimes — and to plans for a new Sixers basketball arena nearby.
It’s similar to Thanksgiving, a day for families to gather, to celebrate their affection for one another, and to gaze up at the night sky, searching for Chang’e, the goddess who was banished from heaven to the moon.In 2000, a six-month protest blocked city plans to build a Phillies stadium in Chinatown, a victory for a community that for decades had lost land to public-works projects like the Vine Street Expressway and the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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