Photos: Moon Festival celebrated at UH Hilo

Posted on October 6, 2017November 21, 2025 by Staff

UH Hilo celebrates Chinese Moon Festival on Mookini Library lānai.

Photos by Kimiko Taguchi/UH Hilo Stories.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo celebrated mid-autumn today with a Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival on the Mookini Library lānai. The Chinese Studies Certificate Program, along with Chinese Culture Club and students from several classes focused on Chinese culture and history hosted the Chinese Moon Festival event.

In addition to displays of posters, paper cuts, handicrafts, and tables of calligraphy, there was a two-hour performance of Traditional Chinese folk dancing (Yangko and fan dancing), Taiji shadow boxing, martial arts demonstration, story telling of the legendary story of the Moon Festival (Archer Yi, Goddess Chang’e, Jade Rabbit, etc.), and recitation of classical poems on the Moon. There also was audience participation in folk dancing,Taiji, martial arts, and Chinese expressions.