2006-08-25 17:10:52 · 11 answers · asked by bubble123 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Studying Abroad
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar (the other being the Chinese Lunar New Year).
Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes.
Nowadays, Chinese treat this as an occasion for a family union and have a reunion dinner. Much like the way westerners get together to celebrate the Thanksgiving Day.
2006-08-28 17:03:12 · answer #1 · answered by Dinner 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
Traditionally the Moon Festival marks the end of the summer harvest. To the farmers of China, the festival is a celebration of thankfulness for heaven's bounty. It has been celebrated by the Chinese people since at least the first century.
Various legends are associated with moon viewing. One of the most popular concerns Chang-0, the wife of Hou-I, the Divine Archer. The legend tells of Hou-I who, having shot down nine out of ten suns that were causing havoc on earth, was rewarded by the goddess Xiwangmu with the herb of immortality. However, the beautiful and vain Chang-0 Found and ate the herb herself. Realizing that her husband would be angry, she fled to the moon where she coughed up the herb that turned into the Jade Rabbit, another mythical figure associated with immortality.
Today, children look for Chang-O and the Jade Rabbit in the shadows visible on the moon's surface. On the night of the Festival they carry paper lanterns in the shape of rabbits, phoenixes, fish and other auspicious animals. The Moon Festival is a time of gathering for family and friends, and moon cakes filled with ground lotus and sesame seeds are given as gifts.
2015-09-23 16:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by Ethan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Few thousand years ago, when China were being taken over and ruled by Mongolian warrior "Ghenghiz Khan" and subsequently "Kublai Khan". The Chinese were being oppressed and they planned a rebellion. But how do they inform the whole country to strike at the same time? ...So they make a sweetened cake called "moon cake" that is make of lotus seeds paste or red bean paste and insert a note inside the moon cake stating the time and date for the rebellion. And everyone received the message when they received the moon cakes to celebrate moon festival.....which falls on the 15th day on the eighth month of the lunar calendar. So they succeeded in overthrowing the Mongolian empire ultimately.
2006-08-25 17:40:38 · answer #3 · answered by yp 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a festival that celebrates the harvest and the harvest moon. They eat round cakes called moon cakes (to symbolize the moon) and have a nice meal with their family. A little like our Thanksgiving holiday only, it occurs earlier on the calendar.
2006-08-25 17:27:16 · answer #4 · answered by chynna30_2000 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it particularly is nice to circulate to a chinese language bakery keep & actually purchase the moon brownies they have. The reflects are somewhat something...the packaging is lots extra useful than years in the past. And the flavor? properly, you will get all varieties those days. From nuts, to chocolates - pink bean, to even pineapple I observed as quickly as. however the suitable is the centre - the yolk. Making sensible, it is not as elementary as you may think of. lots is going into making this type of small cake. suitable which you head over to any Chinatown on your section & purchase it than to make it. savour!
2016-09-30 00:15:28 · answer #5 · answered by haslinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not the moon is very powerfull and has a lot to do with the harvest
as well as peoples behaviour
it affects all water and liquid flows on this planet
the tides ,river and ocean curants ,the sap in the trees and the blood in our bodies
Isis is a very powerfull God
Pagans also honour the moon
ans so do Christians ,although they dont realise it
2006-08-25 17:18:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
coz, for a long long time, they couldn't afford a tv set to watch the first men walk on the moon...so they came up with a festival to remind themselves that they should strive hard to buy a tv set.
2006-08-25 18:58:30 · answer #7 · answered by citrusy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not any more, Moon use to come down beucase no one went to her. Now man is going there or senting shuttles. So she dont come down anymore
2006-08-25 18:42:07 · answer #8 · answered by Proud Indian 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There moon has an oriental look!
2006-08-25 17:13:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
It has been a tradition of theirs for thousand of years...........
2006-08-25 17:16:58 · answer #10 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋