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A plague demon, a fortune-teller’s warning, and a village saved by climbing a mountain: the 2,000-year-old legend behind the Double Ninth Festival. Meet Huan Jing, and learn why millions of Chinese families still climb hills and drink chrysanthemum wine every October.
This Friday night, a billion people will look up at the same full moon. What the Mid-Autumn Festival really means, why the mooncake is cut and shared but never eaten alone, and how to take part this week — from anywhere in the world.