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The traditional festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Moon Cake Festival, is celebrated in several countries in Southeast Asia, including China, Vietnam, Japan, and Singapore, and is a national holiday in parts of the world such as Taiwan, North Korea, and South Korea. In many Asian countries, the Full Moon, considered by many to be the brightest of the year, is celebrated as a Mid-Autumn Festival with many customs including family reunions, special meals, moon cakes and lanterns. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines on the 15th of the eighth lunar month, which usually falls in mid-September or early. October. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, essentially the night of the full moon, which falls on the autumn equinox .
This year's August 15th of the lunar calendar, that is, September 21 this year, this holiday is like the Chinese Thanksgiving Day. It is a way to spend quality time with your family. I wish you good health. It celebrates harvest, harmony and the moon, and symbolizes unity in Chinese culture. Many Asian countries celebrate this festival, which is related to moon worship and unity, and some cultures also celebrate the harvest season, expressing gratitude to friends and family.
In traditional Chinese culture, the moon on festival night is considered the brightest and brightest of the year, symbolizing family reunification. In South Korea, the holiday lasts three days, and many people travel here to meet with relatives.
South Korea - Locals also call the festival "Thanksgiving" when they celebrate a three-day vacation and return to their hometowns to visit families and relatives. In Korea, a similar holiday, Chuseok, is celebrated as a national holiday. In Korea, a similar harvest festival known as cuseog is celebrated on the same day as the Chinese moon festival, but with an emphasis on ancestor worship and visiting the homes and tombs of ancestral families.
One of the main foods Koreans cook and eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival is Songpyeon and Song Pian sonpyeon. This is a traditional Korean rice cake that contains sesame, cinnamon, nuts, chestnuts, jam, honey, beans and mashed potatoes. Kinds of ingredients. beans. Therefore, Koreans do not eat mooncakes like the Chinese, but muffins, muffins, and muffins. Similar to the concept of moon cakes, muffins, a Korean crescent-shaped rice cake, are traditionally eaten today. Real Foods stated that although it may seem strange to celebrate the harvest full moon with crescent-shaped food, all this is due to the legend of the tortoise omen.
Today, on the night of the full moon, people gather in a place where you can see the moon, decorate the stage with Japanese pampas grass, and serve white rice dumplings , taro, edamame, chestnuts and other seasonal dishes. Food, except for sake, is used as a sacrifice to the moon and prays for abundance of grains.
Chuseok , literally "fall's eve", formerly known as hangawi (hangawi; ; from archaic Korean for "great remedy ") is an important harvest festival and three-day festival in North Korea and South Korea, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar during the full moon.
This festival can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty in China more than 3,000 years ago, but it is also widely celebrated in Asia, including Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. In Myanmar, many festivals are held on the full moon day, but the most popular festival is the Ding Jade Festival, which is held in Ding Jade Moon.
While the dates may be similar in some years, this is not an autumnal equinox holiday. However, it is not held on the day of the festival, but the next day and is usually not associated with weekends. People in mainland China enjoy a day off on a festival day, which is usually associated with a weekend and is a three-day vacation.
If it is between October 1st and October 7th, the holiday will last for 8 days and will be celebrated with the Chinese National Day. In Hong Kong and Macau, the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival is a public holiday, not the date of the festival itself , because many celebrations are held in the evening. In Hong Kong and Macau, the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival is a public holiday, not the festival itself, because many celebrations are held at night.
Moon cakes are very popular in China and places with large overseas Chinese populations, but not everyone celebrates the full moon. Festival customs vary from country to country, but most of them focus on family reunions, special meals, lanterns and moon offerings.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in South Korea and the Moon Festival in Japan also have similar festivals. Like the Mid-Autumn Festival, these festivals have Buddhist origins and are related to the full moon. However, unlike East Asian festivals, they are held multiple times a year, corresponding to each full moon rather than a certain day of the year. Many cultures in East and Southeast Asia celebrate the Full Moon Festival, which is one of their most important years. According to our research, 15 countries in Asia celebrate the Moon/Harvest Festival at this time of year.
During the full moon, many festivals and traditions all over the world will begin. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the same day, and is traditionally a harvest festival celebrated in any place in the world where there are Chinese. In addition to China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also widely celebrated in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, as well as Asian communities around the world.
They are given to family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and co-workers, a traditional gesture that accompanies family reunions and public celebrations. In addition to gathering and worshiping ancestors, South Koreans also usually go outside to sweep the graves of their ancestors a day or two before the Mid-Autumn Festival. For example, in Korea, families also get together, but their signature food for the festival is Songpyeong, a kind of stuffed rice cake instead of moon cake; in Japan, in addition to worshiping the moon and the full moon, housewives love to decorate their homes with pampas flowers and grass; in Vietnam, it's more like Children's Day, despite eating moon cakes.