Celebrate Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, is one of the most important holidays in China. It’s held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar.
In China, family members and friends gather to admire admiring the full mid-autumn moon and eat mooncakes and pomelos. There are also cultural customs like lanterns, burning incense to deities including Chang'e, the Moon Goddess of Immortality.
In Singapore, the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節 may have lesser significance compared to China but we also eat mooncakes and buy colorful lanterns.
Nowadays, mooncakes got so many flavors - yam, pineapple, coffee, chocolate, durian, blueberry, jujube paste, abalone lar. I prefer the traditional tastes of red bean paste or lotus seed paste mooncake to go with Chinese tea.
Eating mooncakes is an important part of celebrating Mid Autumn Festival. What kind of mooncakes do you like?
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