Thursday, September 21, 2006

Mooncake festival soon

Mooncake festival is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness which goes all the way back to over 3,000 years ago and is coming soon as tomorrow is the first day of August in the Chinese lunar calendar.

This event marks the celebration of the farmers at the end of the summer harvesting season. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pameloes together. Brightly lit lanterns are often carried around by children too.

Back then when I was a kid, I will always lit up lanterns and hang them outside my house gate. Although there aren't many people that would play or celebrate with me, I still feel happy to see all those colourful lanterns being hung up. It's a very special day indeed but in recent years, I've stopped litting up lanterns.

I find Chinese culture very special and distinct as histories of these cultures could go all the way back to thousands of years ago. I'm very proud to be a Chinese and I'm glad I'm born as one :)

/me crapped at 4:37 PM GMT+8

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