Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important Chinese holiday (after Chinese New Year). It falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and always when the moon is at it's fullest. The festival celebration includes: gathering of family and friends, giving thanks for the harvest and praying for longevity and a good future. It is thought to be similar to the American holiday Thanksgiving.
Mid-Autumn Festival traditions include moon gazing, eating mooncakes, burning incense and carrying lanterns or releasing floating sky lanterns.
We celebrated the festival with family and friends at our house last night. We enjoyed dumplings, wontons, spring rolls and fried rice for dinner. Then, after the sun set, we had a beautiful moon to gaze at.
I ordered some mooncakes for everyone to try....
They were lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk ?!
Audra enjoyed her mooncake...
and she was the only one who ate the entire thing.
It's a bit of an acquired taste.
After dinner all the girls in lined up to watch their Daddy's release floating sky lanterns...
It was a beautiful night!
Next year Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Audra's birthday...
oh, what a party that will be!
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