One of the best festivity from my point of view: today it is the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节, zhōngqiū jié), my favorite because of the traditional cakes eaten during this period, the moon cakes. That’s in fact how I usually call the festival: Moon Cake festival 🙂
Just got this nice video from a Chinese Aikido friend:
…and I add the memories from my second year in China, when I could I really enjoy the moon (in 2010 it had been quite cloudy and rainy!):
From the top: mooncake, the moon, 中 (中秋=mid-autumn)
中秋节快乐！！
Zhōngqiū jié kuàilè! !
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Reblogged this on Dreaming of… Asia and commented:
One year or so back in Europe, almost one year in the Netherlands and now I miss this more than ever! I even miss Hefei 🙂
Happy Mid-Autumn festival folks!
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