Chinese mid autumn festival myths9/19/2023 ![]() Mid-Autumn Festival during Chinese class in high school. This tradition because I vaguely remember learning about Chinese traditions for Went to New York for college and graduated last year. Years old and she is my friend from high school, which was in Hong Kong. Lanterns are important is not very well known. With an electric paper lantern and play around and hang them up. It’s just mostly a nighttime celebration but lanternsĪre a part of the celebration, I think. For example, recently, there have been mochi ones and like Recently, there have been a lot of creative kind of recreations ![]() ![]() Like… I’m going to call them pastries or like cakes that are made with reallyĭense white lotus paste and most of the traditional ones have an egg yolk in Many people still worship gods in China, especially in more rural communities.įamily do in mid-Autumn festival to celebrate it?Īs a family and a popular tradition in China is eating mooncakes. Her, but I guess it depends on other people or what you believe in, like I’m sure The moon and so now people worship Chang’e as a kind of goddess of the moon toĬommemorate her bravery and quick thinking. It over she took the potion herself and became immortal. Something official like, official business or whatever, Chang’e was approachedīy Hou Yi’s apprentice who demanded that she give him the elixir. He decided to not take it and instead kept it and have his wife, Chang’eīe the keeper of the elixir to guard it. He didn’t want to be immortal without his wife and it was only a one-person kind Immortal was impressed by Hou Yi, so he gave him an elixir for immortality, but Nine of the suns and left the only last one up so we could still have sunlight. Huge drought because there were ten different suns in the sky, and he shot down Was this man called Hou Yi who was really good at archery. There’s also another huge component, which is moon worship that Supposed to be symbolic of everyone sitting around the table at family And so, a large part of the Mid-Autumn festival is theĬelebration of family gatherings as well because the roundness of the moon is It’s in the fall, typically in late September or October Inįestival is a festival that is closely tied to Chinese traditions ofĬelebrating the harvest. Transcription of an interview with a friend from high school, identified as A.
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