The Moon Festival or Mid autumn festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems. With the full moon, the legend, the family and the poems, you can’t help thinking that this is really a perfect world. That is why the Chinese are so fond of the Moon Festival.
The Moon Festival is also a romantic one. A perfect night for the festival is if it is a quiet night without a silk of cloud and with a little mild breeze from the sea. Lovers spend such a romantic night together tasting the delicious moon cake with some wine while watching the full moon. Even for a couple who can’t be together, they can still enjoy the night by watching the moon at the same time so it seems that they are together at that hour. A great number of poetry has been devoted to this romantic festival. Hope the Moon Festival will bring you happiness.
The Mooncake (in Chinese called Tiong Cu Pia) is the food for the Moon Festival. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the sky.
As far as I know, there are two kinds of moon cake; the round-thin that filled with vary tastes like chocolate, durian, cempedak, etc., and the brown thick one with Chinese words printed on its top which is usually filled with salted egg. I never eat the brown one, since my mom never bought it. I love the round-thin one anyway.
Source : http://devigirsang.blogspot.com/2006/10/legend-behind-moon-cake-festival.html
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