Happy Moon Festival!!!

Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese. The Chinese Moon Festival falls on the 15th of the 8th month in the Lunar calendar.

Here in Taiwan... it is almost a week long Holiday... everyone goes back home to their families.... rest, hang out, get-together... Barbecuing is pretty common on such nites, as well as, fireworks. So you know what I will be busy doing tonite....

HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL to you all!!!

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The Moon Festival is full of legendary stories. Legend says that Chang Er flew to the moon, where she has lived ever since. You might see her dancing on the moon during the Moon Festival. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems. With the full moon, the legend, the family and the poems, you can't help thinking that this is really a perfect world. That is why the Chinese are so fond of the Moon Festival.

The Moon Festival is also a romantic one. A perfect night for the festival is if it is a quiet night without a silk of cloud and with a little mild breeze from the sea. Lovers spend such a romantic night together tasting the delicious moon cake with some wine while watching the full moon. Even for a couple who can't be together, they can still enjoy the night by watching the moon at the same time so it seems that they are together at that hour. A great number of poetry has been devoted to this romantic festival. Hope the Moon Festival will bring you happiness.

You can read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

The moon cake is the food for the Moon Festival. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the sky. This has got to be the BEST part of the FESTIVAL for me.... all week long people starts giving each other moon cakes... For the most part, my flatmates are sick of it all... so I end up with them...hehehehehe....

This year, September 14th is the actual day of celebration....