Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around mid or late September in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumn and spring equinoxes (chūn fēn 春分) of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncak The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in Chinese calendar, the other being the Chinese New Year, and

The Moon Festival or generally called as Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most memorable Chinese culture I have ever seen in Hong Kong. That is not my first time to participate in Chinese festival, since I always celebrate Chinese New Year in my home country, Indonesia. Chinese New Year is always become an annual celebration of happy life where my big family is gathering together and the young will get the red envelope (hóng bāo) as the symbol of good luck in study or job career. Although I come

poignant lines describe the grief of one incompetent to return home for Mid-Autumn festival.From here we can seen that the Mid-Autumn celebration is one of the most significant part of the Chinese cultural heritage.This festival is known in Malaysia as the Mooncake festival due to the popular practice of buying and eating mooncakes.As it is connected with paper lanterns, it is also called the Lantern Festival. Mooncake festival take place on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese Lunar Calender

order to understand the reasons for eating it, and pass these rituals onto our future generations. One of the many rituals celebrated in Hong Kong is Mid–Autumn Festival, which is also called Mooncake festival. As the name indicates, mooncakes play a very important role in this particular time of the year. Why then is it called Mooncake festival? Legend has it that it concerns the Han Chinese uprising against the ruling Mongols at the end of the Yuan dynasty. During this time, the Han Chinese

with two other big holidays: Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Although many cultures celebrate holidays differently, one thing is always consistent in most of these celebrations: the important role of food. When I was a toddler, my family visited Vietnam for the first time together. It was the also the first time my mom returned since she got married and immigrated to the United States. We arrived around the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival that summer. The humid streets swelled with clusters

Moon Cake Festival: A Mid-Autumn Festival (Chung Chiu), the third major festival of the Chinese calendar, is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month. This festival corresponds to harvest festival s observed by Western cultures (in Hong Kong, it is held in conjunction with the annual Lantern Festival). Contrary to what most people believe, this festival probably has less to do with harvest festivities than with the philosophically minded chinese of old. The union of man's spirit with nature

Chinese culture as they continued to clash with those in America. Asian American have slowly lightened their adherence to the traditional versions as their choice of mooncakes and for many, having mooncakes just became a formality during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Even though mooncakes do not hold the same values as those in China, mooncakes are still nonetheless deemed important especially when they came under attack by American culture in 2007. Asian Americans in California came into conflict with

I muttered to myself, “since it will never be the same.” I released a long sigh and in that moment, depression struck me once again. Grandpa immediately shut off my sorrow by announcing to us, “Tonight, we will be going to the annual Full Moon Festival, so remember to wear a

June's full moons are known by many many name to many different cultures such as the Strawberry moon and the Mead Moon. The Starwberry moon is known by this name because June is a great time for the strawberries to come into the phase of pick and eat this can be only done in June it is a very short harvesting time. June’s Full Strawberry Moon got its name because the Algonquin tribes knew it as a signal to gather ripening fruit. The light of the full moon which was their light to see to harvest the

I attended the Lunar New Year celebration at the Monroe County Public Library on January 21 from 2 o’clock until 4. The first activity was a presentation put on by various members of the local Asian community and members of the Asian culture center here at IU among other IU affiliated groups. There was a guitar performance of a classical Japanese song, a play explaining the meanings of the animals of the Chinese New Year, a dance performance, and an old Chinese folktale told by one of the library