We just got around to celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival today. The actual holiday this year was on Wednesday, Oct 4th. It's always celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese calendar.
The traditions of Mid-Autumn Festival include having dinner with family, hanging lanterns and admiring the moon. In Chinese beliefs, the full moon is a symbol for family reunion. Mid-Autumn Festival is sometimes called the Moon Festival because it is celebrated when the moon is known to be the biggest and fullest.
Mooncakes are a must-eat Mid-Autumn Festival food in China. They are traditional Chinese pastries filled with nuts, beans, seeds, fruit, lotus or egg. And their round shape symbolizes reunion and happiness. We have tried authentic mooncakes a few times but we just can't learn to like them {except for Audra!}. So this year I bought a mooncake mold and made butter cookies stamped with the mooncake design. They were much yummier!
Charlotte and Whitney came over for Chinese food, mooncake cookies and floating sky lanterns.
We still aren't brave enough to attempt lighting the lanterns, ever since that one little lantern mishap a few years back. So we still play it safe by filling the lanterns with helium balloons.
It was cloudy and overcast so the picture aren't so pretty this year
Ahhh, this is much prettier :)
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