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Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong

10/1/2012

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Unlike the mid-autumn festival in San Francisco, Hong Kong celebrates this day with more festivity. In Hong Kong, they put together this huge lantern where people can get inside it and there will be longer hour performances and lion dances. At night, this huge lantern looks really beautiful like a jewel in the city. Many people gather at Victoria Park, Causeway Bay, to see the lantern. Some people carry their own small lantern and the environment feels quite magnificent. 

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Mid-autumn festival also known as Moon festival/Moon cake festival/Zhongqiue festival. It is a popular lunar harvest festival. It has been known over 3000 years ago from Western Zhou Dynasty and it becomes popular during early Tang Dynasty. The festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. 
Other cultures that celebrate mid-autumn festival besides Chinese (Overseas Chinese, Mainland Chinese, Hong-Kongnese, Taiwanese, etc) are also Philippine, and Vietnamese. 

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There are many legends related to this festival but as for me what I observe is people seen the moon at their brightest and perhaps the older generations create different type of stories to explain the moon's changes. That's just my personal interpretation. The common theme is family gathering around this time, eat the moon cake, and enjoy some public performances. Moon cake is very delicious but it is high in calories. If you happen to be in China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan, around this time please do try the moon cake or go to see some of these performances. 

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