![]() ![]() Wishing you Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Festival 2023. I wish that your celebrate this auspicious time of the year with your family and friends and are blessed with a successful year ahead….Sending best wishes on auspicious occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival 2023. May the round moon brings in your life a brighter, happier and more successful future….Wishing you a blissful and cheerful Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. May the brightness of moon and stars fill your life with positivity and happiness….Chinese New Year 2023 - Year of the Rabbit.Lanterns have long been associated with the festival since the Tang Dynasty (618–907), possibly because of their traditional symbolization of luck, light, and familial togetherness. People make lanterns, carry lanterns to do moon gazing, hang lanterns in trees or houses, release sky lanterns, or visit public lantern displays, hence it is even be known as a lantern festival (not to be confused with the Lantern Festival on the full moon after Chinese New Year). Lanterns are a notable part of Mid-Autumn Festival. Making and Carrying Mid-Autumn Festival Lanterns Some believe that by worshiping the moon, Chang’e (the moon goddess) may fulfill their wishes. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people set a table under the moon with mooncakes, snacks, fruits, and a pair of candles lit on it. There are many Chinese poems praising the beauties of the moon and expressing people’s longing for their friends and families at Mid-Autumn.Īccording to the legend of Mid-Autumn Festival, a fairy maiden named Chang’e lives on the moon with a cute rabbit. As a game, kids try their best to find the shape of Chang'e on the moon. Parents with little kids often tell the legend of Chang'e Flying to the Moon. It is said, sentimentally, that “the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival is the brightest and the most beautiful”.Ĭhinese people usually set a table outside their houses and sit together to admire the full moon while enjoying tasty mooncakes. The full moon is the symbol of family reunions in Chinese culture. Mooncakes are usually eaten after dinner while admiring the moon. At the Mid-Autumn Festival, people eat mooncakes together with family, or present mooncakes to relatives or friends, to express their love and best wishes. Their round shape and sweet flavor symbolize completeness and sweetness. Mooncakes are the most representative food for Mid-Autumn Festival. Those staying too far away from their parents’ home usually get together with friends. The public holiday (usually 3 days) is mainly for Chinese people working in different places to have enough time to reunite. Families will have dinner together on the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival. The roundness of the moon represents the reunion of the family in Chinese minds. Here are some of the most popular traditional celebrations. Chinese people have a 3-day public holiday from September 10th to 12th. In 2022, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 10th (Saturday). As, traditionally, the four seasons each have three lunar months, day 15 of month 8 is "the middle of autumn", hence the festival’s lunar date. Mid-Autumn Festival traditionally falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which is in September or early October on the Gregorian calendar. ![]() Chinese people celebrate it by gathering for dinners, worshiping the moon, lighting paper lanterns, eating mooncakes, etc. It is also a reunion time for families, a little like Thanksgiving. Ceremonies are held both to give thanks for the harvest and to encourage the harvest-giving light to return again in the coming year. In China, Mid-Autumn Festival is a celebration of the rice harvest and many fruits. It is also celebrated by many other Asian countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It is the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year. Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is also called the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival. ![]() ![]() Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival) 2022: Greetings, Traditions, Food, Stories… ![]()
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