Festival of the Moon
It's almost that time of the year for every chinese to celebrate
the wonderful festival of the moon. Which festival?
the wonderful festival of the moon. Which festival?
The Moon Cake Festival
This special occasion falls on every 15th day of the eighth month in the Lunar calendar. So which date exactly is this? October 6th.
Every year when I look at the moon cakes, I can only picture two words;
Round and Square.
Then I started to picture more words;
Round, Square and Colored.
In recent years, I started to have another;
Round, Square, Colored and Expensive.
This year, I started to have some problem picturing the words, but here goes ;
Round, Square, Colored and it's god damn expensive ya freaking weird factories who simply chunk out cheap round, square, colored so-called cakes priced so sky rocketing high only god knows whether mount everest is still holding the world's highest record!
...but of course they're so commercially succesful they just had to evolve into many shapes, colors and sizes. Why?
Because it's to celebrate the great festive of the moon!
Of course it's not against the law to not wait until the 6th of October to actually get yourself one of these. So why not take one of them so you can blog about it?
.. or you can do it the cheap way - touch the mooncakes, touch north, north, south, south, east, west then quickly whip out your camera and take a fast shot while you walk away (and remember to switch on "fast mode" to increase shutter speed).
On a side note, I always remember how my primary school teacher enlightened us about the story of how exactly "moon cake" festival came out.
It was actually very much related to a chinese history;
A story that brings us back to the 13th century, during the reign of the Gengkhis Khan, the mongolians were in power over China. The chinese, having known that it was impossible to overthrow the Yuan dynasty, had to come out with a solid plan.
It was then that Liu Chi, whom served as an advisor to Zhu Yuan Zhang, plotted against the mongolians by putting secret messages inside small cakes, delivered by messengers who held lanterns (thus, lanterns are played during moon cake festival) to the chinese. This organised tactic started plans of revolt from the chinese and finally overthrew the mongolians, which herald the start of the Ming dynasty.
So the next time you look at your moon cakes, try to find the hidden message.
Meanwhile, I think I've just discovered a message from one of my moon cakes.
Every year when I look at the moon cakes, I can only picture two words;Round and Square.
Then I started to picture more words;
Round, Square and Colored.
In recent years, I started to have another;
Round, Square, Colored and Expensive.
This year, I started to have some problem picturing the words, but here goes ;
Round, Square, Colored and it's god damn expensive ya freaking weird factories who simply chunk out cheap round, square, colored so-called cakes priced so sky rocketing high only god knows whether mount everest is still holding the world's highest record!
...but of course they're so commercially succesful they just had to evolve into many shapes, colors and sizes. Why?Because it's to celebrate the great festive of the moon!
Of course it's not against the law to not wait until the 6th of October to actually get yourself one of these. So why not take one of them so you can blog about it?
.. or you can do it the cheap way - touch the mooncakes, touch north, north, south, south, east, west then quickly whip out your camera and take a fast shot while you walk away (and remember to switch on "fast mode" to increase shutter speed).
On a side note, I always remember how my primary school teacher enlightened us about the story of how exactly "moon cake" festival came out.
It was actually very much related to a chinese history;
A story that brings us back to the 13th century, during the reign of the Gengkhis Khan, the mongolians were in power over China. The chinese, having known that it was impossible to overthrow the Yuan dynasty, had to come out with a solid plan.
It was then that Liu Chi, whom served as an advisor to Zhu Yuan Zhang, plotted against the mongolians by putting secret messages inside small cakes, delivered by messengers who held lanterns (thus, lanterns are played during moon cake festival) to the chinese. This organised tactic started plans of revolt from the chinese and finally overthrew the mongolians, which herald the start of the Ming dynasty.
So the next time you look at your moon cakes, try to find the hidden message.
Meanwhile, I think I've just discovered a message from one of my moon cakes.
With that, and a pat on the pod;
"Hey, it's just me!" - Mr. Goober
"Hey, it's just me!" - Mr. Goober
