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Since ancient times, paper decorations depicting the moon-walking Jade Rabbit, as well as figurines of the Rabbit God, have been key components of this traditional Chinese holiday. For Chinese people, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, in terms of cultural importance. Falling on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar, the festival is a celebration of the moon — and two special rabbits. Today, friends and relatives mostly mark the holiday by exchanging gifts of mooncakes and fruit. However, in the past, families would set a table in their courtyard, lighting incense and candles, to dine on grapes, pears, apples, watermelons, Chinese crabapples, persimmon, dates, peaches, soybeans, and other seasonal foods under the full moon. They would also hang “moon paper horses,” sheets of paper decorated with images of deities, the moon, and the Jade Rabbit, the mythical companion of the moon goddess Chang’e. According to
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