Mooncake

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 used traditional mooncakes

paper lanterns, small candles, vibrant-colored toys, and a variety of cakes. Mooncakes, or Bánh Trung Thu, is the Vietnamese name for the Chinese-influenced bakery delight traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. A key to the festival’s celebration in addition to lunar worship and moon-watching, was enjoying with family and friends an indispensable delicacy with sips of warm tea. My aunt bought me a mooncake in the shape of a cute piglet. Being twice the size of my hands combined, I happily

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

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

After generations, mooncakes came to hold a slightly different meaning to the Chinese in America, but nevertheless, the traditional pastries are valued as a piece of their 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

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 every year, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. On that

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

The book Tikki Tikki Tembo, by Arlene Mosel, is about one story in the Chinese culture that gives an explanation as to why they changed their perspective they had about giving long names to their first son. The story is about the struggles of a boy named, Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi pip peri pembo, which meant “ the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world” in the Chinese language. The long named given to him was awesome because it mean that he was honored to be the first son

When I meet a new acquaintance, I anticipate their question, “So, where are you from?” I reply, “I was born in Grand Blanc, near Flint, but moved to Canton, Michigan when I was young.” As I have grown accustomed to, they counter by asking, “but where are you really from?” As a child this always confused me. I assumed that I was not being clear enough, but when I repeated myself, I was always met with the same question. When people first meet my starkly different parents, I pretend not to notice

It is quite surprising that I found an oriental market in Lincoln. In my imagination, big city like New York, California is more diverse than a small city like Lincoln. As a business student, it also triggers my curiosity on how the business survives in a place, where not many Asians were living. To satisfy my curiosity in the business, I decided to take a trip to explore the oriental market. The oriental market is located at 612 N 27th St, Lincoln. Outside the store, there is a spacious space