This year's festival is dedicated to May Louie, who started the festival in 1991 and who passed away in February at age 87, says entertainment coordinator Cynthia Yee.
Working with merchants in Chinatown, Louie hoped the celebration would help draw visitors back to Chinatown after the devastation of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The tradition of a moon festival around the time of the autumnal equinox, however, dates back thousands of years in China.
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