On the evening of September 16, tourists have a get-together banquet around the bonfire in the Window of the World in Changsha.
On September 16, the Hunan Forest Botanical Garden holds the Second Flower and Butterfly Festival.
The Second Flower and Butterfly Festival was held by the Hunan Forest Botanical Garden. Two hundred thousand butterflies in various colors were put into the Butterfly Valley, with the biggest area of over 20,000 square meters in China. The Butterfly-Releasing Ceremony is scheduled to be held during the Mid-Autumn Festival three-day holiday, the seven-day National Day holiday and the Double Ninth Festival (Chinese lunar calendar).
The Window of the World in Changsha promoted the "Mid-Autumn Festival Get-Together Banquet", themed with "Reunion". Visitors can interact well with actors in traditional folk costumes and showing the western Hunan folk-custom performances such as the original drum dance of Miao Nationality and their road blocking toast.
Changsha Tianxin Pavilion plans to host the "2013 Changsha Tianxin Pavilion Filial Piety Month & Mid-Autumn Festival Happy Party of Praying to the Moon". On the evening of September 19, the staff of the Tianxin Pavilion is expected to hold solemn worship to the moon in the Han dynasty costumes, according to the tradition in ancient days. Besides, they will present a party full of folk customs.
In Changsha Underwater World, both land and water performances by amazing dancing groups from Russia will be presented. They will show not only beautiful water ballet during the play time, but also superior difficult performances underwater in front of the window of the sea bottom.
A small-scale temple fair will be held in The Fiery Palace in Pozi Street. Apart from intangible cultural heritage items such as the paper-cut, the dough figurine, the shadow puppet, sugar sculpture, and wood carving, the shadow play and flower drum opera, which are quite rare to see, are also to be shown.
