FOR Chinese, the Moon Festival an occasion for family reunions. With the Chinese nation as a family, the China Folk Culture Villages will showcase one of its reunions by introducing one more ethnic group called Luoba from southeastern Tibet. And with the Luoba's entry into Shenzhen yesterday, each of China's 56 ethnic groups now has people living in the city.

　　The park will also feature Bonfire on the Grassland,  the Moon Dance of the Dai people, shows on the lake, and many other sideshows, most of which can be participated in by visitors.

　　On the day of Moon Festival, the Happy Valley, will present, among other things, an extraordinary event where over 1,000 people, led by the park's leading magician Ruxian, a Uygur woman, participate in a magic show, which will produce a huge "Moon" from nowhere.

　　To highlight the sense of family reunion, the park will that day reward a box of moon cakes to any visiting families which will consist of four generations.

　　The park will also revive an old custom: floating candles. In the past, a family would place candles in a stream and let them flow away. The candles would then take good wishes to faraway relatives. The park visitors will be able to get free candles and put them in the park's lake.

　　The Window of the World will stage a huge rave to celebrate the Moon Festival, at which the best DJ's of the city will play for about 10,000 people. As the park's press release put it, the party will be characterized by "moonlight, electronic music, a masquerade, drinking sprees and socializing".

　　The Bucolic Sight on the Seaside, a theme park in western Shenzhen, has designed some activities to reflect a famous sentence from an ancient poem, which says "When the bright moon rose up from the sea, it was shared by everyone under the heaven."

　　The park has a huge rooftop, which will serve as the venue for all its visitors to get together and look at the moon while enjoying moon cakes and fragrant tea.