The Chinese Moon Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular East Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or "Mooncake Festival."

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar), a date that parallels the Autumn Equinox of the solar calendar...

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Chinese Moon Festival Story

Here it is on video:

Stories behind the festival can be found at Widdershins:

• Chang E Flying to the Moon
• Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine
• Wu Gang Chopping Laurel Tree

Fire Dragon Dance

This is really wonderful! I love fire, fireworks, dragons, and full moons. Here we have it all! The Fire Dragon Dance complete with fire, fireworks, all performed during the Chinese Moon Festival.

0 Lady Moon

0 Lady Moon,
your horns point toward the east;

Shine, be increased:

0 Lady Moon...

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Sleepyhead

As I lay awake in the white moon light,

I heard a faint singing in the wood,

'Out of bed,

Sleepyhead,

Put your white foot now,

Here are we,

Neath the tree

Singing round the root now!'

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I see the moon

I see the moon,

The moon sees me

God bless the moon,

And God bless me.

-A nursery rhyme

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What is a Pomelo?

Pomelos are a must during the mid-autumn festival or mooncake festival;

they are normally eaten fresh.

The pomelo (Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis) is a citrus fruit native to South East Asia. It is usually pale green to yellow when ripe, with sweet white (or, more rarely, pink or red) flesh and very thick pudgy rind. It is the largest citrus fruit, 15–25 cm in diameter, and usually weighing 1–2 kg. Other spellings for pomelo include pummelo, and pommelo, and other names include Chinese grapefruit, jabong, lusho fruit, pompelmous, Papanas, and shaddock. Pomelos are also referred to as chakotara in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. In the Indian State Manipur this fruit is known as Nobab....

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Mid-Autumn Moon Cake

Filling:

• 
  
  1 can (17-1/2 ounces) lotus seed paste
• 1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts

Dough:

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  4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2-cup non-fat dried milk powder
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs...

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Easy Chinese Moon Cakes

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 egg yolks
•  1/2 cup salted butter
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup strawberry (or your favorite) jam

(traditionally red bean paste is used so if you want a more authentic version, you can use a can of red bean paste instead of the jam)

Directions:

1.  Preheat the oven to 375 degrees....

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A Gypsy Spell For Love

Suppose there is someone in whom you are very much interested. He or she seems to notice you but makes no move to develop a relationship. This is the spell to use. It is not a spell to draw that loved one to you, but more to "open the way," so that if there is interest there, he or she will feel free to make advances.

Set a wineglass on the table. Then suspend a ring (traditionally the mother's wedding band) from a length of red silk ribbon....

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