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Mid-Autumn Festival · Friday 25 September

Mooncakes, reunion, and how the Wuyi diaspora keeps the date

Two thousand miles from the ancestral hall, families still set out the same eight pastries and the same four plates. The festival is the one date the letters home never forgot.

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