The Harvest Moon Dinner

The Harvest Moon Dinner is a four-day long celebration celebrated in Northern Parania and parts of Cheskachena and Apelchem. It happens annually from the day of the Harvest Moon and ending three days after. The festival is about appreciating the harvest farmers do for us and a celebration is usually held with dinners being the crucial portion of it.
== Customs and Traditions ==
Many Christians go to mass two-times a day during this four-day period, that is 8-days of mass in total, and many masses include dinners at the fellowship halls which usually start at 9 p.m. and end around midnight, but the most common custom is visiting family and eating dinner with them; common meals include mashed potatoes, poultry, salads, gourds, parsnips and many others. In Parlinn, each day welcomes a new activity, the first-one is called "fange-og-slippe" which translates to "catch-and-release", many party directors, teachers, church leaders, etc often catch around a hundred birds (usually crows, magpies, or ravens) and dye them in different colours (Most commonly white, blue, or red), around 50-100 people participate in the activity in different quadrants of cities and are each given a bird (In some instances, two) and at once, all release the birds into a nearby park, creek, or forest. The second-one is called flit catching, flits are an ancient fairy-like creature that is said to inhabit Parlinn, Elsenord, Vindborg and Cheskachena, around 200 people participate in different locations and are each split into groups-of-ten (20 different groups in total) and all trek within a park or forest of some sort holding onto jars catching flits and/or flit-like creatures, it is said the more creatures caught the more points you recieve, eventually you'd need to release the creature afterwards. The third-one is folk-dancing where many river-dance to Parlinnian folk music in traditional outfits, during this day, many go out to shop for food to munch-on if they don't feel like dancing, and the fourth-one is called the gift-exchange, much like Christmas, except most of the gifts given out are small and food-related, and it is considered bad luck if you do not use or eat the thing given. When the festival wraps up, food sales are quite common in Parlinn afterwards. 
Category:Festivals