The Mid Autumn Festival is an occasion for family reunion. When the full moonrises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems, with all these things together, the legend, the family, the full moon and the poems, one can’t help thinking this is really a perfect world. That may be the reason why Chinese are so much enjoyed in the Moon Festival and take it as a special day being so different from the festivals. They just can’t wait for the coming of the Moon Festival in each year.
Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival 中秋节 as it’s known in China, is the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar. It is considered a harvest festival, and some people even compare it to Thanksgiving.
Mid-Autumn festival is also the appropriate time to eat mooncakes, a Chinese dessert. This New York Times articles estimates that mooncakes are a 2 billion dollar a year industry.
Mooncake is definitely an acquired taste. It is sweet and salty, gluttonous pastry filled with a dense filling such as lotus seed paste or a red bean paste. It often has a salted egg yolk in the middle to symbolize the full moon.
Nowadays, snowskin mooncakes are most popular for those who want to enjoy more than the traditional taste.
The Moon Festival is also a romantic one. Lovers get together, watch the full moon, drink towards the moon, and taste the delicate mooncake , at such a quit night without a silk of could an with some mild breeze from the sea. Even for lovers who are located in different places, the moon becomes a symbol linking them together. They watch the moon at the same time and seem to have each other at that hour. A great number of poetry has been devoted to the romantic festival, representing how Chinese people hope the Moon Festival brings them romance and happiness.
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