{"id":17159,"date":"2023-09-07T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tilda.com\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:13:29","slug":"celebrating-mooncake-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tilda.com\/blog\/culture-guide\/celebrating-mooncake-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Mooncake Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content-section content-section--top-mask content-section-- u-contrast-text--\">\n    <div class=\"free-content container container--small\">\n                    <div class=\"free-content__content user-content\">\n                <h3><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">What exactly is Mooncake Festival?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">This Chinese celebration, also known as Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, is held on the 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunisolar calendar, when the moon is full and bright. The massive celebration has a rich history dating back over 3,000 years, quite tightly tied to the legend of the Moon goddess, Chang\u2019e.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Who is Chang\u2019e?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">The story goes that Chang\u2019e was banished to an eternity on the moon as punishment for stealing her husband\u2019s secret to immortality. While other tales suggest she drank the elixir to protect it from falling into the wrong hands. In her ascension to the heavens, she decided to take up residence on the moon, so she could stay close to her husband. Chang\u2019e remains on the moon today with her giant white hare companion, often depicted working a pestle and mortar \u2013 making more elixir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun fact<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">: NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 ground team told the astronauts in 1969 to look out \u201cfor a lovely girl, with a big rabbit\u201d as they approached the moon. Buzz Aldrin replied to Houston, confirming he\u2019d \u201ckeep a close eye out for the bunny girl\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Alongside the Moon goddess, the festival also celebrates the gathering of friends and family; thanksgiving for the harvest; and prayers to spouses, beauty, longevity and the future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--top-mask content-section--red\">\n        \n    <div class=\"image-with-text container container--small\">\n                    <div class=\"image-with-text__content\">\n                <h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Food is eaten during the Mid-Autumn festival?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Rice cakes and mooncakes are all the rage during the Mid-Autumn festival. The sweet rice cakes (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Nian Gao<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">), are most often coloured yellow or white, made with short-grain glutinous rice, flour, sugar and water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Mooncakes on the other hand are rich, dense pastries, typically filled with sweet-bean, egg yolk, meat or lotus-seed paste. They\u2019re often decorated with intricate patterns of Chang&#8217;e\u2019s moon palace or a cinnamon tree, or moulded into the shape of rabbits.<\/span><\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n        \n                            \n                    <div class=\"image-with-text__image\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mooncake\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.tilda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Mooncake-Image.webp\" width=\"\" height=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--top-mask content-section-- u-contrast-text--\">\n    <div class=\"free-content container container--small\">\n                    <div class=\"free-content__content user-content\">\n                <h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>What is the tradition of mooncakes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Sharing mooncakes is a major part of the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, the detailed work required to make them, coupled with the custom of presenting them as a gift to visiting colleagues, has caused the price to skyrocket during the celebration. In Singapore, a box of four can cost as much as US$60.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Nowadays, they\u2019re rarely homemade, given how labour-intensive the process is. So if you\u2019re looking to try the Mid-Autumn Festival\u2019s official food, hit the shops before everything kicks off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">To delve into more cultures and traditions, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tilda.com\/blog\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">continue exploring our blog for more.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in style, explore its history, and discover the dishes shared to celebrate, including rice cakes and mooncakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-guide"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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