Mooncake Festival

What is the Moon Festival?

Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "zhong qiu jie" and it's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Chinese culture is deeply imbedded in traditional festivals. Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese.

Children are told the story of the moon fairy ("chang er") who 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 romatic 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.


Mooncakes are inextricably linked with the Moon festival. One type of traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed paste. These mooncakes are quite filling with a salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, meant to be cut diagonally in quarters and passed around. Hope the Moon Festival will bring all of you happiness.

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I'm not a girl who are fancy of Moon festival but still miss the moment where i play lantern together with my friends.

Happy Mooncake Festival Friends!!