On the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese Lunar calendar, we celebrate the Mooncake Festival, or directly translated as Mid-Autumn Festival from Chinese 中秋節. On this day we usually get together with our family and loved ones like other important events in the Lunar calendar such as the CNY's eve and Winter Festival. So it's a day of love for family, sisterhood and brotherhood.
While I reminisce my childhood memories of gathering at the table with mom & dad & my 3 other siblings every Mooncake Festival, venue was our garage(lol) where lanterns were hanged, and we (the kids) were pretending to admire the big mid-autumn moon while enjoying mooncakes, pomelos, and chinese tea... I truly embrace the importance of this day is about family, about the togetherness, about reconciliation and reunion.
A week from today, my family is going to celebrate one of the biggest events to us - wedding of the youngest member. It means a lot to us having another fine young man added to our family, my parents used to only have 4 daughters, now they have just equal number of sons. God is good.
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the mid autumn was extremely very quiet here. not many shops selling moon cakes like before.
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