Moon Festival Lanterns, Victoria Park

There were hundreds of coloured lanterns hanging in Victoria Park this week to celebrate the Moon Festival. The festival always happens on the fifteenth day of the eight lunar month of the Chinese calendar when the moon is at its largest, lowest and brightest. It's an important family day in China and relatives gather to eat mooncake and tell stories of Chang'e. As legend has it Chang'e flew to the moon where she has lived ever since. Forget the man in the moon, in China the woman got there first!