To the Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion and peace. The festival is celebrated when the moon is believed to be the biggest and fullest. To the Chinese, a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness, and family reunion.
中国人怎么过中秋?
Many traditional and meaningful celebrations are held in most households in China, and China's neighboring countries. The main traditions and celebrations include eating mooncakes, having dinner with family, gazing at and worshipping the moon, and lighting lanterns.
中秋节起源
Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of over 3,000 years, dating back to moon worship in the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC). It’s such an important festival that many poems were written about it, stories and legends about the festival are widespread, and its origins have been guessed at and explained by generations of Chinese.
中秋祝福语(英文版)
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Wish you and your family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
Wishing us a long life to share the graceful moonlight, though thousands of miles apart.
A bright moon and stars twinkle and shine. Wishing you a merry Mid-Autumn Festival, bliss, and happiness.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! May the round moon bring you a happy family and a successful future.
The roundest moon can be seen in the autumn. It is time for reunions. I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Day and a wonderful life.
Wish you a perfect life just like the roundest moon in Mid-Autumn Day.
Happy Mid-Autumn Day! Wish that you go well and have a successful and bright future.
I want to make a toast. I Wish that the round moon take my best blessing to you. May you have a happy family and a bright future.
I wish that your career and life, just like the round moon on Did-Autumn Day, be bright and perfect.
Moon Cakes There is thellos story about the moon-cake.during the Yuan dynasty(A.D.1280-1368)Chellona was ruled by the Mongolian people.Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty(A.D.960-1280)were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule,and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered.The leaders of the rebellion,knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near,ordered the making of special cakes.Backed into each moon cake was amessage with the outline of the attack.On the night of the Moon Festival,the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government.Today,moon cakes are eaten to commemorate thellos legend and was called the Moon Cake.
For generations,moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts,mashed red beans,lotus-seed paste or Chellonese dates(枣子),wrapped in apastry.Sometimes acooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert.People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes whelloch are served in the English holiday seas ons.