Happy Chinese National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival!

Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as Mooncake Festival in South East Asia). It’s also China National Day! I wish all of you who are celebrating these holidays a VERY VERY HAPPY HOLIDAYS!Keep safe and stay well!

Xiamen
A unique tradition is celebrated quite exclusively in the island city of Xiamen. On the festival, families and friends gather to play a gambling sort of game involving 6 dice. People take turns in rolling the dice in a ceramic bowl with the results determining what they win. The number 4 is mainly what determines the how big the prize is.
Z-LION Held The Mid-Autumn Festival With Mooncake Gambling And Dinner Activities

The moon in your hometown is always the brightest and roundest .
Mid-Autumn festival has a history of over 3000 years in china . it is such an important festival that many poems were written about it . stories and legends about the festival are wide spread.
Bright moon, when will you appear ? lifting my cup of wine, i question the dark night sky,tonight in the palaces of heaven , what year is it ?
i would like to ride the wind and rush to you , make my home there .
bright moon, why you are so round at times when we loved people are parted . people have their griefs and joys , their togetherness and separation . the moon has its dark and clear times .it is waxings and wanings , situations are never idea since long ago, i only hope we two have long long lives , so that we may share the moon's beauty even though we are a thousand miles apart.
in china , mid-autumn day is a reunion day. no matter how far your loved people away from you , the bright moon can connect us together .
in the night of festival , we set large insense table, offer big mooncake, watermelons, apples , plums, grapes ,all family members sit around the table , we face the moon, enjoy the precious time that we are together again .

In the Chinese culture the full moon symbolizes reunion and the Moon or Mid-Autumn Festival is the perfect moment to reunite with families and friends. For many colleagues and business partners the upcoming holidays offer in fact the first occasion to rest and meet their beloved ones since the beginning of the pandemic in January 2020.
Natural health awareness during festive times | Coming Thursday is Mid-Autumn Festival in China, a wonderful gathering for families originated to celebrate the harvest and prepare ourselves for wintertime. This year the festival comes on the same day as the National Day of the People’s Republic of China, October 1st, double celebrations !

The traditional food for Mid-Autumn Festival is mooncakes, traditionally filled with lotus seed or sesame pastes, salted egg yolks, nuts, seeds or dried fruits. Different regions have meat-filled mooncakes and during the last decade many innovate fillings have popped up such as durian, chocolate with spicy beef, crawfish or even foie gras with cream and truffles.

However, natural health awareness is thriving in China in many ways with health foods and supplements. We can see this back in mooncakes as well; vegan, gluten free, low carb, superfood or even TCM (traditional Chinese Medicine) mooncakes are gaining popularity during recent years. Natural health in traditional style.


Wishing you all a wonderful Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day and Golden Week ahead together with your families and loved ones !

More customs about Mid-Autumn Festival as follows:

Xiamen

A unique tradition is celebrated quite exclusively in the island city of Xiamen. On the festival, families and friends gather to play a gambling sort of game involving 6 dice. People take turns in rolling the dice in a ceramic bowl with the results determining what they win. The number 4 is mainly what determines the how big the prize is.

What is the significance of Mid Autumn Festival?

To the Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion and peace. The festival is celebrated when the moon is believed to be the biggest and fullest. To the Chinese, a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness, and family reunion.

 

Why is the Mid Autumn Festival so important?

The Mid-Autumn Festival started as a harvest festival held on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar, a full moon night between late September and early October. The festival is an important traditional holiday in China, perhaps just behind the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year.

 

Why do we celebrate the Moon Festival?

The Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Lantern Festival, takes place each year on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. This is the date of the Autumn Equinox, when the moon is at its farthest point from the earth and hence appears bright and completely round.

For the related lunar festivals celebrated on the same day, see Tsukumi (Japan) and Chuseok (North and South Korea).

Mid-Autumn Festival

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Mid-Autumn Festival decorations in Beijing

Official name中秋节 (Zhōngqiū Jié in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore; Jūng-chāu Jit in Hong Kong and Macau)

T?t Trung Thu (Vietnam)

Also calledMoon Festival/Celebration

Observed byChina, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia

TypeCultural, Religious

SignificanceCelebrates the end of the autumn harvest

ObservancesConsumption of mooncakes

Consumption of cassia wine

Date15th day of the 8th lunar month

Related toChuseok (in Korea), Tsukimi (in Japan), Uposatha of Ashvini/Krittika (similar festivals that generally occur on the same day in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia)

Mid-Autumn Festival

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"Mid-Autumn Festival" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters

Chinese name

Traditional Chinese中秋節

Simplified Chinese中秋节

Literal meaning"Mid-Autumn Festival"

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Min Chinese name

Traditional Chinese八月節

Literal meaning"Festival of the Eighth Month"

 

The Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese: 中秋節; simplified Chinese: 中秋节; Vietnamese: that Trung Thu) is a harvest festival celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people. The festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar with full moon at night, corresponding to late September to early October of the Gregorian calendar with full moon at night.

 

Mainland China listed the festival as an "intangible cultural heritage" in 2006 and a public holiday in 2008. It is also a public holiday in Taiwan and in Hong Kong. In the Vietnamese culture, it is considered the second-most important holiday tradition after That.[citation needed]

 

Due to ancient China's cultural influence, Mid-Autumn Festival spread to other parts of Asia. Mooncakes have also appeared in western countries as a form of delicacy.

Wishing you and your family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
 

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