Student looks back on fond memories

For Zeng Yuting and many other young people around China, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival celebration would be unlike any year before－it would be the first time they celebrated the festival without their families.

As her father drove her to the airport in Shanghai bound for her university in Beijing, Zeng reminded herself of the fond memories of her family buying mooncakes and decorations and preparing a fancy dinner for the festival celebration. Zeng's father, who is an aficionado of calligraphy, would write poems about the moon and hang them on the wall.

"I've never seen the sky at 4:30 am before, with the colors changing from orange to blue and finally to white when we arrived at the airport," she said. "The changing colors made it sink in that I was leaving Shanghai."