Boylan P wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Heleanor Feltham wrote:
>
> > Patrick, whatever happened to the Moon Festival, Chinese New Year and the
> > Dragon Boat races?
>
> Heleanor:
>
> Chinese New Year: yes, though usually outside the Christmas period - the
> original discussion - but with Lion Dances rather than Dragon Boat races.
> (Leicester is the most distant point from the sea I the whole of the
> British Isles!).  The Moon Festival is not celebrated by any numerically
> significant groups in the UK so far as I know - certainly none of our 80+
> "ethnic" and other communities in Leicestershire, though a total of a few
> hundred Druids across the whole of the UK now celebrate publicly the
> Summer Solstice.  (For the first time in 15 or so years they were allowed
> back into the Stonehenge prehistoric site (a national monument and
> World Heritage site) for the 1998 midsummer's morning - but it was
> completely clouded over!
>
> Patrick Boylan

Is there another Moon festival besides the Chinese one? I would have
thought the Chinese community in Leicestershire celebrated it, as does
the London one.