Moon Cake Festival

This will be my debut post in this blog and as you can see, its Moon Cake Festival =]
I had a walk at a near by garden and saw some kids and adults are celebrating this festival at the play ground and I snap some pictures of them ^^

If I would ask, what is Moon Cake Festival? I think the common answer will be "Its the time kids enjoy playing candles and lantern while adults enjoy moon cake with some Chinese tea and of course, enjoy the night view of full moon." *some might forget pomelo*

There are some real life meaning for this big event. Mid-Autumn Festival aka Moon Festival actually is a popular harvest festival which dated back 3000 years.

Since "hanyyul" are a major trend now days, let me talk a bit about Korean culture. Korean does not celebrate Moon Festival instead they celebrated Chuseok "추석" which is a major harvest festival and a three day holiday which falls on the same day with Moon Festival. In certain, the lunar calender of Korean and Chinese are actually the same hence both of the peoples will celebrate this day on the 15th of the 8th month in Lunar Calender. In modern South Korea, on Chuseok there is a mass exodus of Koreans as they return to their hometowns to pay respects to the spirits of their ancestors. People perform ancestral worship rituals early in the morning. They often visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants and clean the area around the tomb, and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors. Harvest crops are attributed to the blessing of ancestors.

I think thats all for now, and, although it was late to say,

"Happy Moon Cake Festival" "Happy Chuseok"