Moon Festival

                           

     As usual, after my school on 2 pm, i'm ready to go home, because Thursday is the most earlier class . As we know,today is the most importance day for Chinese people. the sellers will start to sell a lot of difference types of moon cake . Those children will aspect that they could have received the moon cake from neighbor and some pocket money on that day .

     Moreover, the most exciting things that we are getting reunited with family and cousin . For the girls sure we will hang out together and eat any dessert ,drink some beverage to satisfy our tummy . From China, they are given seven days holiday to celebrate their Mid-Autumn Festival.Our Asian counties also provided school holiday to the students so that they could have the time to spent with their family but not homework and stress.

     The Moon Cake is the special food of Mid-Autumn Festival. On that day, every people sacrifice moon cakes to this special day and eat them for celebration at night . The moon cakes come in various flavors according to the region and culture. Actually moon cakes are round, symbolizing the reunion of a family, eating food with full of love so it is easy to understand how the eating of moon cakes under the round moon can laughing though every single minutes for distant relatives and friends. Every single minutes proved that its really have the value on it. The kids might be addicted to play with the candle and lantern . This is one of the part in this festival. I'm pretty sure that half of the kids love it , please admit it .

     Nowadays, people present moon cakes to relatives and friends to demonstrate that they wish them a long and happy life and always blessed with good fortune.As time flies, moon cakes production undergone various innovation and come in new flavours where it seem fit.For an instance,below are the samples of moon cakes that come in new style;

To further understand the purpose of Moon Festival,let me share few historical facts regarding the festival.

Firstly,the Chinese ancestors believed that movement of the moon has close relationship with the changing of seasons and agricultural production.Therefore,to express their gratitude to the moon and celebrate their harvest,they offered a sacrifice to the moon on autumn days.

  The custom is traced back in Zhou Dynasty(1046 - 256 BC) and was more often practiced by the royal class on the Autumnal Equinox.The festival experienced revolution in Sui(581 - 618 AD) and Tang (618 - 907 AD) dynasties,where social prosperity inspired the custom of appreciating the moon sacrifice among common people and later on merged with royal class customs.The common people expressed their faith more liberally than the royal class and did not restrict their activities on Autumnal Equinox.So August 15th of the Chinese lunar calendar, the closest full moon day to the Autumnal Equinox, turned out to be a better choice and was set as a fixed festival during Tang Dysnasty.Moon Festival become widely celebrated folk festival in Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127 AD).

  A nice place to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival should be wide and open, or high, or somewhere with water. Because one can appreciate the full moon or moon reflection more easily in these places while eating delicious moon cakes in the night full of silent .Generally in China this festival is widely celebrated and some of the places are included in the list of top places to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival.

  First in list is Beijing. At Altar of The Moon,that is the place where the emperors of the Ming (1368 - 1644 AD) and Qing (1644 - 1911 AD) dynasties offered sacrifice to the moon.The architecture in it are related to moon and legends of Mid-Autumn Festival.

  Other than that,people can appreciate the moonlight view together with manmade light at Taoranting Park. As you can see in this diagram below that this place is peaceful and you can feel the nature at this beautiful place. For me,if i have enough money, i will willing to go to this wonderful place because its actually attract me .

     Next in this list is Shanghai. For me, Shanghai have a huge number of  tourist in this city as the city are well known city to the world,Shanghai holds various of mesmerizing spot to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.One of the place is called Huangpu River which also known as  “museum of international skyscrappers" in east bank and the sparkling water flowing in the river consist of the most famous night view of Shanghai.

Last but least,I would suggest the readers to visit Ancient City Wall in Xian to experience a memorable Moon Festival celebration where it is relatively high and there are no skyscrapers hindering the view.Visitors may watch dance and song performances at the south gate of the City Wall on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.

As a conclusion, it is important for the younger generations to appreciate this festival as it related to our origin.As globalization takes place,generation these days tend to leave out traditional customs and start to modernized every celebration and might as well include the Mid-Autumn Festival.It is not necessarily a bad thing but it is better to pay respect to our beloved ancestors for leaving a great legacy regarding the Mid-Autumn Festival.So i hope the youngsters start to indulge themselves in celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival following the proper custom instead of playing phone and wasting their time on social media,because we should care more about our traditional culture but not the nonsense from the Internet. Doing nonsense will low down our image and do not look in good condition Furthermore,i will suggest everyone to pray with all their heart and never stop doing good deeds and be kind to everyone. In my opinion , all young people should know more about our festival culture.For example , i will pray in my heart with the small wishes such as hope everyone healthy and everything going well .

References: https://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/holidays/mid-autumn-celebration.htm

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