The Tulsa-Beihai Sister City Partnership recently sponsored traditional Chinese dance performances at University of Tulsa and Broken Arrow High School in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, also called the Mooncake Festival or Moon Festival, the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year, In 2023, the festival fell on September 29th. In China, Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion time for families. Chinese people celebrate it by gathering for dinners, worshiping the moon, lighting paper lanterns, eating moon cakes, etc. It is also celebrated in Singapore, and Malaysia and by the Asian American community.
