Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar and gathers layered practices around the moon, harvest, reunion and memories of home. Moon viewing, family gatherings, mooncakes and local practices such as moon offerings, lanterns or fire-dragon dance did not emerge everywhere in the same period or form, so claims are sourced separately. Circles, moon phases, osmanthus, the moon rabbit and cake moulds offer design structures. Gold, Moon White, pale yellow and deep blue establish a night-reading hierarchy as a modern editorial palette, not an official historical standard.

△ This palette is an editorial design interpretation built from source-aware color records. It is not presented as an official historical palette.

• Let the moon field carry the highest luminance and keep gold below it so the hierarchy reads at night and in print.
• Use circles and phases as a spacing system, not merely as decorative moon icons.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Open Access at The Met — Public-domain object images supplied under The Met Open Access policy (CC0).
• Hong Kong Observatory · Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2026 — Hong Kong Government publication; factual citation only, no page-image reuse.
• Hong Kong Observatory · Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2027 — Hong Kong Government publication; factual citation only, no page-image reuse.
• Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Opinions on using traditional festivals to carry forward outstanding national cultural traditions — PRC government web reference; factual citation and short quotation only.
• China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network / China Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Museum · Mid-Autumn: a bright moon over the sea — Institutional web reference; factual citation and short quotation only.