Celebrating Mooncake Festival With The Garden Mooncake
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is China's second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year, with a 3,000-year history of emperors worshipping the moon to ensure abundant harvests. The festival takes place on the fifteenth lunar month, which corresponds to mid-September to early October on the Gregorian calendar. The Chinese believe that the moon is at its brightest and fullest size on this day, which also happens to be harvest time in the middle of Autumn. Lanterns of various sizes and shapes are carried and displayed as symbolic beacons of good fortune and prosperity. Mooncakes, a rich pastry filled with sweet bean or lotus seed paste, are traditionally served during this festival. The custom of carrying brightly lit lanterns is an important part of the holiday season. The availability of mass-produced plastic lanterns depicting internationally recognised characters such as Pikachu from Pokémon, Disney characters, Naruto, Angry...