The most widely-told Mid Autumn Festival story features Chang’e, the moon goddess. Photo credit: Sengkang via Wikimedia Commons However, all lantern carnivals in Hong Kong have been cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Victoria Park is home to Hong Kong’s most popular Mid Autumn Lantern Carnival, welcoming massive camera-touting crowds every year. After dinner, families head to lantern carnivals at parks across the city for a light-filled moon-gazing session. A typical Hong Kong Mid Autumn Festival celebration begins at dinnertime, when extended families gather under one roof and dine together. This is such that they can head home and prepare for the evening feast. In Hong Kong, employees tend to get off work earlier on that day.
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Despite the festival’s origins in celebrating the autumn harvest, contemporary society places more emphasis on gathering and returning home, as the full moon symbolizes reunion in Chinese culture. Having said that, records show that Chinese communities have celebrated the harvest during the autumn full moon since the Shang dynasty (c. However, nobody knows for sure how and when it came about. The Mid Autumn Festival became an official celebration during the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 CE). On this day, families gather to feast on mooncakes, hang up lanterns, and admire the fullest moon of the year. It falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar, which is when the moon is at its biggest and brightest. And then he does! And you feel like such an idiot.The Mid Autumn Festival is an ancient Chinese celebration of the full moon, family, and harvest. *honestly, you think that it won’t happen to you, that your apprentice will be different, and you hear all these stories and you’re like, yeah but he would never. Available now for purchase and pre-order! Shoot us an email if you’re looking to bulk order, and we’ll try to hook you up with a lil discount. This year we have 6 (!) flavors with fun fillings, like nutella + chocolate, and salted butterscotch + duck egg, and we’ll be selling them in a swanky red gift box, as well as per piece if you aren’t looking to commit to the aspirational cookie lifestyle the gift box represents. Now, while we don’t presume to eclipse (heh) mooncakes, we are very excited to offer our MOOKIES again this Mid- Autumn Festival, which are our cookie take on the classic mooncake. Fast forward a couple of years, and now during Mid-Autumn Festival, people gift mooncakes in honor of Chang’e, aka Moon Goddess. So she drank it, flew up into the sky, and chose the moon as her eternal home, because let's be honest the moon is pretty sweet. Left with very few attractive options, Chang’e was like, well, I guess I have to just drink it now? Which kinda sucks because we were meant to do it together, but it’s the best option, right? Yeah fuck it I have to drink it ugh ok he’s going to be pissed but whatever. Yi’s apprentice, who sounds like a real pill, snuck into Yi’s house when he wasn't home and tried to steal the elixir!* Being a gentleman, he hid it so he AND his wife, Chang’e could knock it back it when the time was right ) ) The legend goes that after shooting down 9 out of the 10 suns that were making earth *way* too hot, the archer Yi was gifted an immortal elixir. But it is home of the dope Chang’e legend, which is at least one of the reasons we celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival today. While there are some conflicting Chang’e stories out there, I’ll regale you with the most romantic one, because #loveisnotdead. Mid Autumn Festival is (almost) upon us, which means it’s time to prep those peepers for moon gazing! Heavy moon appreciation is not exclusive to China, nor to the rich folk who would hold swanky moon gazing parties while burning money for light (speculation).
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