What and When is Mid-Autumn Festival?
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. According to the lunar year, Mid-Autumn festival of 2012 year is TODAY, Sept 30th.
This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard.
Why do we celebrate it?
There is a beautiful story behind this festival.
We LOVE to have moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It has always been a child's sweetest dream when celebrating it. For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival.
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