Shanghai celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival in traditional fashion
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Xuhui District is decorated for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Han-style dance in Xuhui
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The Metro City is illuminated as celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Traditional Chinese music played at Chenshan Botanical Garden during the holiday
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Autumn landscape of Chenshan Botanical Garden
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Autumn landscape of Chenshan Botanical Garden
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Traditional Chinese cultural activities are being held at tourist attractions in the city to celebrate today's Mid-Autumn Festival.
In Xuhui District, people are invited to guess riddles at Guilin Park and Flower Art Gallery, according to the Xuhui District Culture and Tourism Bureau.
Guilin Park, a Jiangnan-style classic garden built in 1931, is known for its dense woods of more than 1,000 osmanthus trees of 23 varieties.
At Metro City in Xujiahui area, a 41.2-meter diameter crystal ball, featuring Tangyun Rabbit, Xuhui's Mid-Autumn Festival mascot.
Han-style dances are being performed at Metro City while a single pass for afternoon tea, Normandie Apartments-shaped ice cream, a cruise tour on the Huangpu River, and discount coupons for shops at Hengfu (Hengshan-Fuxing Road) Historical and Cultural Area is available at the Wukang Road Tourist Information Center as part of the celebrations.
These activities are also part of this year's Shanghai Tourism Festival.
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Hanfu show at Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park
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Polar bears enjoy mooncake at Haichang Ocean Park.
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Unmanned drone light and shadow show at Haichang Ocean Park
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At Chenshan Botanical Garden in Songjiang District, a traditional Chinese-style garden party is being staged, enabling visitors to experience the glamor of China's intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional music such as khoomei, or throat singing, Jiangnan sizhu (string and wind music), guqin (a seven-string plucked instrument similar to the zither), and guzheng (a 21-string traditional music instrument) is also being performed at the garden.
Polar bears at Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park in the Pudong New Area are being given special mooncakes which cater to their taste buds. With a diameter of half a meter, the mooncake is stuffed with fish, tomato, carrot and nuts, attracting the attention of polar bear Pi Zu and Ya Tou immediately.
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A girl feeds a giraffe mooncake at Shanghai Wild Animal Park.
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Children make mooncakes for animals at Shanghai Wild Animal Park.
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A lemur enjoys mooncake at Shanghai Wild Animal Park.
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An elephant is ready to eat mooncake.
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Mooncakes for animals at Shanghai Wild Animal Park
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An unmanned drone light and shadow show is being staged at Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, illuminating the night sky with festival elements related with its mythology such as rabbits and Chang'e. Nearly 500 drones are featured.
A hanfu, the traditional dress of Han Chinese people, show is also part of the celebrations.
At Shanghai Wild Animal Park, children use mashed pumpkin, peanut, red date and glossy privet leaves to make mooncakes for animals like giraffe, lemur, and elephant.
