![]() ![]() Her carefully prepared hanfu is embroidered with rabbits and cassia branches. She plans to hold a hanfu garden party with like-minded fans. "For me, the best way to celebrate the festival is wearing costumes with Mid-autumn festival elements on them," said Yu Mengshu, a fan of the traditional Chinese garment hanfu. Some Chinese youth choose to showcase the new trend by dressing in unique costumes. Like Xie, many Chinese youths have created self-made mooncakes, with special shapes including various fruit and cartoon animals, and challenging mooncakes with different flavors and stuffing like Luosifen, and crayfish. Gen-Z is a group with their own personality, so the mooncakes they eat should showcase their personality, Xie said. Xie Mengli, a student from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, has planned to design a unique style of mooncake. She believes the game can gather people together in a cheerful way. The Tianjin Normal University student intended to call on her friends to play a joyous "script murder game" because she hopes to spend a happy festival on the day of family reunion. It's not a Gen-Z way to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival just by appreciating the moon and eating mooncakes, said Wang Fangfang, a fan of "script murder game" - a role-playing murder mystery activity popular among Chinese youth. Throughout history, there are countless poems about the full moon and the Mid-Autumn Festival, of which the line "Let's wish that we live long as we can though miles apart, we'll share the beauty she displays" is the most popular.Īn increasing number of Chinese youth are finding new ways to celebrate the holiday, according to a report by. (Photo/China News Service)Īlthough moon-worshipping customs changed over time, expressing a longing for distant relatives during this time remains unchanged. People visit an ancient town decorated with lanterns in Kunshan, east China's Jiangsu Province, Sept. However, the custom of handing out mooncakes during the festival became popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties and persists today. Some folklore researchers believe Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Tang Dynasty, while other scholars argue it became a folk festival during the Song Dynasty. The earliest mooncakes were believed to be used as sacrifice during the Zhou Dynasty (1050 B.C.-256 B.C.)or even earlier. ![]() ![]() People celebrate it by gathering for dinners.Īs the second most important festival in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in many traditional ways, including by enjoying tasty mooncakes, admiring the full moon, and making and carrying Mid-Autumn Festival Lanterns. As "roundness," or yuan in Chinese, has a similar pronunciation to "reunion", the festival is also a reunion time for families. It is said that the moon on this day is the brightest and roundest. It falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or Sept. (ECNS) - The Mid-Autumn Festival, derived from the custom of worshiping the moon in autumn in thanks for a bountiful harvest, has a history of over 3,000 years. It was customary to listen to Chinese ancient music or play traditional Chinese instruments while watching the moon. Lanzhou University in Gansu Province offers mooncakes featuring local characteristics. White Swan Hotel's Linjiang Tiantai () Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in an atmosphere accompanied by traditional Chinese melodies will make your festival very traditional. ![]()
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