What do you know abt Mooncake festival/Lantern festival?
By cottonm
@cottonm (753)
Malaysia
August 21, 2008 4:45am CST
It is very special festival for chinese ppl, during mid sept, but according to chinese calender it's on 15/8 every year, it's a full moon day ^_^ we have many legends according to this festival, v celebrate by eating mooncake, playing lantern & candles, and also will hav some activities like playing some quiz regarding the festival...when i studied in Melbourne 8 years ago, me & my housemates (all malaysian chinese), v celebrate this festival by hanging the lantern on the tree, and some of the australian neighbours passed by, they found it very interesting, they asked us abt the info of Mooncake festival, and they even took some pic of the lantern...so, i'm curious, for non-chinese friends, what do you know abt mooncake fstival? How do you feel abt it?
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4 responses
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
21 Aug 08
I'm sorry it's the first time I hear of this festival. I heard something about a festival including paper lanterns, but I'm not sure if it was Chinese or Japanese. They let the lanterns float on a river or something like that...
Anyway, if it involves eating a cake, it sounds great!
@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
21 Aug 08
Cotton, till you told me about it, I did not know about it. Sounds fascinating! What is mooncake? Can I make it here? Maybe I will celebrate too, eating mooncake and hanging lanterns. Sounds cool! :)
@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
22 Aug 08
How fascinating! And thanks for this link. I will sure check it out. I simply love these festivals. :)
@cottonm (753)
• Malaysia
22 Aug 08
mooncake is actually a fullmoon (round) shape biscuit filled with red beans or white lotus paste ^_^ that's the traditional type, nowadays there is more innovative taste ^_^ but ppl still like the traditional...making mooncake is quite difficult coz u need special tools to print the pattern on the top of the mooncake ^_^ mayb u can find it at china town, as well as the lantern ^_^
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@czyuan (96)
• China
22 Aug 08
As a Chinese, i celebrate Mid-festival nearly every year. But with time flying, i found the phenomenon that more and more young people are not celebrating these traditional festivals like Mid-festival. They just know it is the festival to eat mooncake instead of knowing the source of it.
i think it is woeful and we should consider how to revive the interest of these festival. have a nice day.
@cottonm (753)
• Malaysia
22 Aug 08
and it's a good family gathering day too, under the moonlight, eating mooncake, talking abt 'chang er', talking abt the moon & so on, drinking chinese tea, playing & displaying lantern everywhere etc, miss it and look forward for it...coz is coming soon ^_^
