Lunar calendar August 15th.. a full moon day.. the Mid-Auturm festival, a Harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese (on the same day, but in different ways, and stories). ‘Zhong Qiu Jie’ 中秋节 is also called lantern festival or mooncake festival in certain places (in my hometown) since we eat mooncake 月餅 with family, and many lanterns we can see.. This happens to be similar to Vietnamese way of celebration, but they have another story about the festival and is mainly for children, like a children day. The Mid-Autumn festival was also borrowed by Japan in custom, called 'Tsukimi' 月見, they display Japanese pampas grass (susuki) and eat rice dumplings, 'Dango' 団子. There are many versions in everywhere..
In Korea here, it is ‘Chuseok’ 추석, a Thanksgiving day, one of the big holiday that people return home (massively), for ancestor worship, family reunion, and eat ‘songpyeon’ 송편, a kind of rice cake with nice taste. Yeaa, I also need to go ‘home’ ~ hehe, go back to dormitory for my holiday.. no mooncake but instant noodle.. no lantern but light of my computer.. you know what is same? The only one thing is SAME about this mid-autumn festival, apart from, yes, in Autumn, the date.. Well, it is the same festive full moon that everyone in everywhere can still see, while celebrating the day in various styles! Generally, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
