This full Moon is in the middle of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar. In many traditional lunisolar calendars, full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar months. In Sri Lanka, this full Moon is the Binara Pura Pasalosvaka Poya Day, commemorating the establishment of the Buddhist Bhikkhunī Order. Pitri Paksha starts with the full Moon in the lunar month of Bhadrapada and ends with the new Moon.įor some Buddhists in Bangladesh and Thailand, this full Moon is Madhu Purnima, the Honey Full Moon Festival or the Honey-offering Festival, tied to a legend that an elephant and a monkey fed the Buddha when he was in the forest to bring peace between two factions, with the elephant offering fruit and the monkey offering a honeycomb. This full Moon marks the start of Pitri (or Pitru) Paksha (fortnight of the ancestors) during which Hindus pay homage to their ancestors, especially through food offerings. The second Moon-Viewing festival takes place on the 13th day of the next lunar month and celebrates the viewing of the waxing gibbous Moon a few days before it is full. The full Moon festivities have become so popular that they are often extended for several days after the full Moon. Because of the tradition of offering sweet potatoes for the full Moon, this Moon is also called Imo Meigetsu (which translates as "Potato Harvest Moon"). This full Moon corresponds with the first of the two Japanese Tsukimi or "Moon-Viewing" festivals. In Korea, this full Moon corresponds with the harvest festival Chuseok, during which Koreans leave the cities to return to their traditional hometowns and pay respect to the spirits of their ancestors. Part of the festival includes offerings to the Moon Goddess Chang'e (the name the China National Space Agency gives their lunar missions). In China, other names for this festival include the Moon Festival, the Mooncake Festival, and the Reunion Festival (with wives in China visiting their parents, then returning to celebrate with their husbands and his parents). In China, Vietnam, and some other Asian countries, this full Moon corresponds with the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional harvest festival. 20, and end with sundown on Monday, Sept. Sukkoth will start with sundown on Monday, Sept. Often for this holiday, a temporary hut symbolic of a wilderness shelter is built where the family eats, sleeps, and spends time. This holiday ties back to the sheltering of the people of Israel during the 40 years in the wilderness in the Book of Leviticus, and also a harvest festival in the Book of Exodus. Sukkoth is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of the Ingathering. In the Hebrew calendar, this full Moon falls near the start of the 7-day Sukkoth holiday. called this the Corn Moon, as this was the time for gathering their main staple crops of corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in September – the Algonquin tribes in what is now the northeastern U.S. The Maine Farmers' Almanac first published Native American names for the full Moons in the 1930s, and these names have become widely known and used. Other European names for this full Moon are the Fruit Moon, as a number of fruits ripen as the end of summer approaches, and the Barley Moon, from the harvesting and threshing of the barley. On average, the full Moon rises about 50 minutes later each night, but around the Harvest Moon – moonrise seems to be at nearly the same time: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the northern United States, and only 10 to 20 minutes later farther north in Canada and Europe. Farmers sometimes need to work late by the light of the Moon for the harvest. The Oxford English Dictionary gives 1706 as the year of its first published use. One Moon, Many NamesĪs the full Moon closest to the autumnal equinox, this is the Harvest Moon, an old European name. While the full Moon will be on Monday from Iceland, Liberia, and Senegal westward across the Americas to the International Date Line, it will be on Tuesday for the rest of Africa and Europe eastward across Asia and Australia to the International Date Line. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Sunday evening through Wednesday morning. The next full Moon will be on Monday evening, Sept. The Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon the Fruit or Barley Moon the Corn Moon the start of the Sukkoth Holiday the Mid-Autumn, Mooncake, or Reunion Festival Moon the Chuseok Festival Moon Imo Meigetsu or the Potato Harvest Moon the start of Pitri Paksha the Honey-offering Festival Moon the Binara Pura Pasalosvaka Poya and the GRAIL and LADEE Moon.
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