Full coverage: Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

Activities such as lighting lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, and mooncake gambling games are carried out every year in Singapore to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Let's take a look.

Three large groups of lanterns, depicting Chinese fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e Flying to the Moon, Houyi Shooting Down Nine Suns, and Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine, were lit up Saturday evening at Singapore's Chinatown, attracting more than 3-thousand visitors.

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean also attended the lighting-up ceremony.

"The Mid-autumn Festival is coming. We come here to watch lanterns and the Moon. It’s very beautiful, and Chang’e is made really charming," said a local resident.

"It is very beautiful. It has got significant values, and also that means that you have to believe in it. I have to actually find more about it. It has been years that we have been actually enjoying Lantern Festival together with my Chinese friends," said an Indian Singaporean.

The gardens by the bay were decorated with lanterns, luring visitors in to enjoy the light shows and guess lantern riddles.

Visitors appreciate lanterns during a celebration of Mid-Autumn festival at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, Sept. 15, 2016. (Xinhua/Then Chih Wey)

People also played the mooncake gambling game called Bobing in Chinese -- a traditional way of celebrating the Moon Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a great time for residents in Singapore to reunite with families, meet old friends and get to know new ones in the lively festivities.