posted by Little Thingies @ 3:35 AM
Thursday, October 05, 2006
It's mid-autumn festival time and i'm drinking at the office! Someone quick, gimme a hit.
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12 Comments:
isn't it called "moon festival"?
and u eat moon cakes
and boink when the moon is out?
oh i forgot u wanted someoen to hit you *whack*
Let me bend over first.
If you translate from chinese, it's mid-autumn festival. But in english, maybe it's moon lattern festival? I think it's the same thing.
Either way, people play with huge candles and paper latterns...and succeed in burning themselves and buildings down. Only in hk would you need police to remind people not to play with fire.
Ahhh...technically,
Mid-autumn festival is phonetically translated as "Chung Chow Tset"...middle of autumn...moon festival??...WTF...
There are moon cakes...which there is a huge history behind this tasty delight. If anyone wants to know I'll continue, if not, that's ok. I won't go off on it! HAHAHAHA
people in NA tend to call it moon festival
why i dunno
i'll wikipedia it up
educate me, so far ive gotten different answers for the reason why we celebrate this festival.
Ahh now I know why we celebrate midautumn festival....
The Vietnamese version of the holiday recounts the legend of Thằng Cuội, whose banyan trees were uprooted after his wife accidentally urinated on it and took him with it to the moon. Every year, on the mid-autumn festival, children light lanterns to show Cuội the way to Earth.
You mean it's not a celebration of alcohol like all the other holidays? Who would've thunk it?
Well...the mooncakes were used during a rebellion against the Ching Dynasty in the late 19th century...they used to slip notes and whatever else in them...
no you're wrong, those were fortune cookies you nut.
No...fortune cookies started in San Francisco...when they shipped off the chinamen to work in the mines...
Mooncakes were used in the red rebellion against the Ching...where the Hakka almost tookover Beijing...before the Boxxer Rebellion
u know. i was joking about the fortune cookie thing..
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