-I wanna share some cute moments of us Vietnamese Volunteers, sacrificing themselves for our safety, yet always so happy and positive despite all the dangers they face everyday.
“End of Summer” To celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, we have a wallpaper version of this artwork available on our website. We hope everyone has a lovely day.
中秋节快乐！Today we reunite with our family, eat moon cake, look upon the moon and wish for a long life.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 I hope everyone who celebrates are able to celebrate with their families
At 中秋节 Chinese people eat moon cakes 月饼, which traditionally are round 圆 like the moon, a symbol of reunion 团圆 and never seperating 分开. It resembles always being together with your family
It is almost 中秋节, Mid-Autumn Festival This year it is celebrated on the 1st of October 2020, which is also, 十一 , the PRC National Day of China. During this festival, Chinese get together with their families and eat moon cakes and look upon the moon.
I promised you that I would share some poems with you. This is a poem about missing the family reunion of the festival. It describes how beautiful it is, in a quiet yet sad way. The sadness and longing is very prominent. I cannot celebrate the festival with my family this year either, so I feel deeply connected to this poem. I hope everyone who celebrates can be with their 家人 family (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡
When people search for Mid-Autumn-Festival-related images, wabbits rabbits tend to pop up a lot, like this:
Or this:
But why?
“Rabbit” on the Moon:
It’s speculated that the legends about rabbits on the moon may have originated from some imaginative ancient moon-gazers, because the visible basalt plains (lunar maria) on the moon’s surface seemed to meld….and form a "shadow” of a rabbit standing over some sort of container:
But since people thousands of years ago didn’t understand the universe like we do today, they resorted to stories to explain this weird shadow on the moon, and thus the legend of Chang‘e (嫦娥) was born.
Legend of Chang’e
There were many existing versions of the story through the ages, but all revolved around Chang’e consuming the elixir of immortality, resulting in her being separated from her husband Yi (羿), the legendary archer. Some say it was because Chang’e tried to protect Yi’s elixir from a thief, some say it’s because Chang’e was a minor goddess and life on earth was too boring for her, and some say it was because Yi cheated on her with the wife of a river god. Regardless, she consumed the elixir of immortality that the gods gave to Yi. However, the gods were not pleased by this, so as punishment, they turned her into a rabbit (some say she was turned into a toad), sent her onto the moon alone, and ordered her to make immortality elixirs for eternity. But since Chang’e and Yi did love each other, they missed each other dearly, so every mid-autumn Yi would gaze at the moon to look at the rabbit, still grinding away with the mortar and pestle.
…and that’s how the Mid-Autumn Festival became associated with rabbits.
The Tale of Cuội is a Vietnamese animated short showcasing the beauty of Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival. The short includes classic characters like the Jade Rabbit, Cuội, Hằng Nga (Vietnamese Chang’e), and the multitudes of Moon Festival elements such as the lanterns and the moon cakes.
A Moon Festival-inspired white fantasy áo tấc, with elements of Hằng Nga, the moon goddess. The goddess is depicted here as an elf-like creature in white, with flowing long hair.
Google Doodle - Mid Autumn Festival 2014 Japan,China,Vietnam and Korea
Google Doodle Mid Autumn Festival Master Post.
Re Captioning wasn’t entirely necessary but I’ve always wanted to use ‘Master Post” and also OMNIBUS…. I’ll have to wait on the latter. Wish me luck on that one though…
Symbolizing unity and prosperity for the coming year, moon cakes are intricately decorated flaky pastries filled with sweet bean and paste, all formed around a salted duck egg. They are eaten during the Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Learn how to make your own, it is simpler than you think! http://www.abbottandwest.com/recipe-moon-cakes/
Happy Mid-Autumn festival!! anyone have these bunny lanterns as a kid? I just recently found out the glass paper ones are pretty much only common to Southeast Asia (maybe just Malaysia and Singapore?), the ones I saw in Shanghai are.. well.. white and on wheelslol
Wishing Pavilion by Stanley Siu and Daydreams Design. 2019.
Commissioned by Hong Kong government’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department for the 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival, Daydreams Design’s Wishing Pavillion is a temporary exhibit in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park. Composed of 5,000 bricks, all made with recycled plastic, the Wishing Pavilion is reminiscent of traditional Cantonese and Chinese customs of both tower-burning and lantern lighting. Bringing a modern, eco-friendly twist to both of these, the central tower’s LED lanterns illuminate at visitors’ touch, an electronic “flame” in the structure’s center appearing to carry their wishes up into the heavens.
