DHAKA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Confucius Institute at Bangladesh's top leading Dhaka University Monday celebrated the Global Confucius Institute Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival with the participation of officials, academicians, students and members of the local Chinese community.

The institute held a variety of activities including Chinese songs, poem recitations, speeches, dances, martial arts and paintings.

Dozens of students attended the cultural events titled "the Confucius Institute 2018 - the Poetry Charming on Moon Day" from a number of leading Bangladeshi institutions.

Confucius Institute Day, which was set up in 2014 to mark the 10th anniversary of the first Confucius Institute, falls on Sept. 27 each year.

Confucius who lived between 551 and 479 BC, was an educator and philosopher.

He founded the school of Confucianism that deeply influenced later Chinese generations.