"I hope it comes back next year after the pandemic," Liang says. tale regarding the moon and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
They've also hosted performances for a traditional Chinese fashion show and Chinese folk dance. In previous years, the center has helped to host China Lights, a lantern and light festival. This year, Liang and a couple of friends got together made moon cakes with eight different types of fillings ranging from coconut to chocolate. "Because the drug was so powerful, ended up flying to the moon and she becomes the moon goddess in Chinese legend," Liang says.īecause of the on-going pandemic, the Milwaukee Chinese Community Center has paused in-person events. However, someone else decided to steal the potion and drank it for themselves." For his heroism, he was gifted a potion to make himself and his wife, Chang'e, immortal.
"So a young man named Hou Yi decided to shoot down nine of the suns, and became a hero. "Once upon a time, there was a legend that there were 10 suns in the sky, which made the planet very dry," Liang explains. One of the most well-known is about a beautiful woman and the bright moon.
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"And it’s also a time for the family reunion, because in the Chinese culture, the full moon symbolizes reunion."įolklore and stories are widely shared around festival time. Appreciating the Moon a Symbol of Family Reunion. In ordinary times, people won't buy or eat mooncakes but during the Mid-Autumn Festival everyone will have a mooncake to celebrate. "During this time of the year, the moon is believed to be the fullest and the brightest," she says. Eating mooncakes is the most common and representative tradition of the day. She says the festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. Michelle Liang is a board member of the women’s club for the Milwaukee Chinese Community Center. From eating round-shaped mooncakes to lighting lanterns, this time is set aside for being with loved ones.
The festival originated in China, but similar full moon traditions are practiced across East and Southeast Asia. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, celebrates this seasonal change. We’re slowly transitioning from summer to autumn - a time that traditionally celebrates the summer’s last harvest. Were forests were, sick seas.The leaves are beginning to fall, the days are getting shorter, and the moon seems to be glowing a bit brighter. Devoted as words to things, I gaze, gawp, glare deserts The childbirth song, the lover’s song, the song of death. Your human music falling like petals through space, Wedge of lemon, slice of melon, half an orange, onion Round I go, the moon a diet of light, sliver of pear, I must have a thousand names for the earth, my blue vocation. So brief, mine long, long, a talented loneliness. The woman in question was ChangE, the goddess of the moon, and the subject of one of the most evocative myths in Chinese culture. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also referred to as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a holiday celebrated across East and Southeast Asia to, as you can guess, honor the moon and its symbolic representation of a good harvest. It was weird to see how many different versions there are on the story of the woman in the moon. The story that you found on the Mid-Autumn Festival was a very interesting one, I have not seen that one before. I loved how you incorrparated the recipie. Here’s-the-craic, losses and longings, your lives The moon is at its fullest and brightest today, which calls for a celebrationthe 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival begins gazing at the night sky. Thank you for telling me about all of the traditions held during mid autumn festival. What reached me here were your prayers, griefs, How could you think it was ever a man up here?Ī cow jumped over. I will be adding to this collection over time, allowing it to take the space it needs to unfold. Like moonlit waterfalls, graceful and mysterious, but also timeless and effortless. What jewels would she wear? Something sparkly and dangly of course. Worship of Chang'e On Mid-Autumn day, the full moon night of the 8th lunar month, an altar is set up on the open air facing the moon to worship her. I imagined her living in solitude among the stars. So Chang'e and Houyi came to represent the yin and yang, the moon and the sun. I was so inspired by Carol Ann Duffy's poem I decided to design a collection dedicated to the woman in the moon.
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