The Chinese Moon Festival! Moon cakes!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa093097.htm

[tblue]

1. So cool!!!

I know nothing about it, so thanks for sharing!!!

[Scurrilous]

2. Something I came acros on a Korean music site:

A detailed explanation of ‘Chuseok’

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"Chuseok is sometimes referred to as the ‘Korean Thanksgiving’, ‘Hangawi‘, ‘Jungchujul‘, or ‘Gabe‘ and is celebrated on the brightest full moon of the year, which occurs in mid-August on the lunar calendar. Unlike Western society, Koreans still use the lunar calendar for important dates, so a lot of their holidays are centered around the moon and its cycle.

For 2011, the day of Chuseok falls on September 12th and in 2012, the holiday will be celebrated on September 30th. Chuseok is essentially a celebration of a good harvest, as it’s around this time that grains and fruits will be at their ripest and freshest for harvesting. To celebrate a year of successful farming, families will all pack up and head home to their ancestral hometowns and ‘bon-ga‘ (directly translated to ‘main house’, but it’s usually the home of the oldest or head of the household, e.g., grandparents, parents), where they’ll dress up in traditional clothing, cook delicious food, and pay their respects to their ancestors."

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"Songpyeon is one of the representative food items of Chuseok, and it’s made from the newly harvested rice. It’s essentially a small, crescent-shaped rice cake that contains either red beans, chestnuts, jujubes, powdered sesame, or just brown sugar.

When you make the songpyeon, you make a wish as you scoop in the contents and carefully fold it up into a crescent shape so that your wish doesn’t fall out."



http://www.allkpop.com/2011/09/a-detailed-explanation-of-chuseok

Looks delicious! :P

[On the Road]

The Chinese Take These Very Seriously

I was in a Chinese department store several years ago where an entire central lobby was dedicated to various types of Moon Cake in high-end packaging. An entire room of nothing but moon cakes.

[On the Road]

3. dupe

[TalkingDog]

4. OMG I love moon cakes.... well, okay, not the ones with sausage, but all the other ones

YUM!!!


Yay! it's time for moon cakes!

[mainer]

5. Mooncakes and rebellion: a history

Read how secret messages were inserted into moon cakes during the rebellion against the Mongols:

http://www.chinatownology.com/mooncake_and_mongols.html

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Thank you for that fascinating story!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. I posted this because I love Oriental culture.

And I thought we needed something light to contrast with all the 9-11 memorials.

[toddwv]

8. Mmmmm....

Moon cakes are great!

[NightWatcher]

9. Whoops, clicked thinking this was an Angry Birds post

Oh come on, I'm the only guy playing the game.