Mooncake Festival Celebrations

 


The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is China's second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year, with a 3,000-year history of emperors worshipping the moon to ensure abundant harvests.

The festival takes place on the 15th of the eighth lunar month, which corresponds to mid-September to early October on the Gregorian calendar. The Chinese believe that the moon is at its brightest and fullest size on this day, which also happens to be harvest time in the middle of Autumn.

Lanterns of various sizes and shapes are carried and displayed as symbolic beacons of good fortune and prosperity. Mooncakes, a rich pastry filled with sweet bean or lotus seed paste, are traditionally served during this festival.

Following a successful rice and wheat harvest, the festival was a time to honour the moon with food offerings. Today, eating mooncakes and gazing at the moon, a symbol of peace and unity, is still a tradition for outdoor gatherings of friends and relatives. During the year of a solar eclipse, it is common for government offices, banks, and schools to close for an extra day to enjoy the extended celestial celebration. During this time, many people enjoy eating garden mooncake to commemorate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the gardens.

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The custom of carrying brightly lit lanterns is a significant part of the holiday season. The availability of mass-produced plastic lanterns depicting internationally recognised characters such as Pikachu from Pokémon, Disney characters, Naruto, Angry Birds, Ben 10, Doraemon, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Hello Kitty in modern times has resulted in a decline in handcrafted lantern-making.

One of the festival's most enduring traditions is the preparation and sharing of mooncakes. Mooncakes are another popular Mid-Autumn Festival feature. A round shape represents completion and reunion in Chinese culture. During the festival week, sharing and eating round mooncakes among family members symbolises the completeness and unity of families. Mooncakes are traditionally made on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in some parts of China. The senior member of the household would cut the mooncakes into pieces and distribute them to each family member, symbolising a family reunion. The traditional practise of making mooncakes at home has given way to the more common practise of giving mooncakes to family members in modern times, though the meaning of maintaining familial unity has not changed.

Even though most mooncakes are only a few centimetres in diameter, imperial chefs have pressed designs of Chang'e, cassia trees, and the Moon-Palace into the surface of mooncakes. The number 13 represents the 13 months in a full Chinese lunar year, and one tradition consists of stacking 13 mooncakes on top of each other to resemble a pagoda. In modern China, the spectacle of making enormous mooncakes is still performed.






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