The joyous Mid-autumn Festival, the third and last festival for the living, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". In the Western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurred sometime between the second week of September and the second week of October.
歡悦中間秋天節日，第三個和最後節日為生活，在第八月亮的第十五天慶祝了，在秋天晝夜平分點附近的時期。 許多簡單地提到了它作為“十五個第八月亮”。 在西部日曆，節日的天某時通常發生了在第二個星期9月和第二個星期10月之間。