[Videos] Happy Belated Mid-Autumn Festival and Moon Cakes October 3, 2021 bizadmin This video wishes all a Belated Happy Mid Autumn Festival. From Wikipedia, The Mid-Autumn Festival (simplified Chinese: 中秋节; traditional Chinese: 中秋節), also known as Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated by China and many East and Southeast Asian people under the influence of China. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year, with a history dating back over 3,000 years when the Emperor of China worshipped the moon for bountiful harvests. Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Cakes in this video showcases the various Festival Moon Cakes, and one is spoilt for choice. The many repertoires of Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Cakes in this video show the many varieties in different lovely container boxes and intricate tins sold in pairs or fours. Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as Moon Cake Festival. It is observed in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Vietnam (similar holidays celebrated in Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia). The moon cakes are sold in pairs or in fours in a lovely, intricate box. You can also buy them individually. Some come with snow skin or frozen with ice cream inside. The lotus paste is the most common filling inside a moon cake, besides nuts and seeds, which is the more expensive version. Usually, there is an egg-yolk or two inside the moon cake. Moon cakes are sweet to the taste and can be customized with less sugar for a healthier diet and dessert. Some come with pandan (screw pine leaves) flavor, coffee flavor, durian flavor, green tea matcha flavor, and more. Others may be in the form of jellies. Hence, the patrons are spoilt for choice when it comes to the various flavors and box designs plus packaging of the moon cakes. Significance Celebrates the end of the autumn harvest. Celebrations Lantern lighting, mooncake making, and sharing, courtship, and matchmaking, fireworks, family gathering, dragon dances, family meal, visiting friends and relatives, gift-giving. Observances Consumption of mooncakes. Consumption of cassia wine. Date 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar. I decided to do a simple post on the mid-autumn festival or moon cake festival since I have 2 related videos on this subject. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DTan (@philin135) Just click on the “>” button on the right side to swipe left for more pictures of the intricate and lovely boxes of the moon cakes for this particular stall. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DTan (@philin135) Here is my order of 2 boxes of Atomy moon cakes that cost $80 per box. I got one for myself, my spouse, my mum, and sis. The other box was donated to the underprivileged children that were being taken care of or rather tutored by a church friend. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DTan (@philin135) A picture is worth a thousand words, while a video is worth a million words. The above picture is self-explanatory with me as the donor, whenever I can afford it, though that happens once in a blue moon. So, that’s it for this post. Stay safe and stay at home, being happy to pursue the things that you love.
