{"id":703,"date":"2024-09-17T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/?p=703"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T14:49:06","slug":"chinese-mid-autumn-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/2024\/09\/17\/chinese-mid-autumn-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Lishan Sung &#8211; NUREN Advisory Board <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival \u4e2d\u79cb\u8282 (zh\u014dngqi\u016b ji\u00e9), also known as the Moon Festival fell on 17 September 2024. It is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The eighth lunar month is the middle of autumn and according to the Chinese calendar this is when the moon is at its brightest and biggest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A joyous occasion for families to come together, eat, worship the moon, and celebrate the fall harvest.\u00a0Those celebrating enjoy a delicious family dinner followed with mooncakes for desert. The most well-known kind of mooncake is made of lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk inside.\u00a0Nuts, red beans, custards are some other popular ingredients.\u00a0A cold version is snow skin mooncakes (similar to mochi ice cream).\u00a0 For the children we light colourful lanterns, hang them outside and appreciate the bright full moon.\u00a0Chinese supermarkets are quite well stocked with different varieties of moon cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/files\/2024\/09\/Happy-Mid-Autumn-Festival.png\" alt=\"Graphic with a purple background with stars and lanterns handing on a strong along the top. A golden circular shape with 'Happy Mid Autumn Festival' in white on a purple banner. \" class=\"wp-image-709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/files\/2024\/09\/Happy-Mid-Autumn-Festival.png 318w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/files\/2024\/09\/Happy-Mid-Autumn-Festival-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambitious, creative people (like my sister-in-law) make mooncakes from scratch! I can\u2019t wait to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/files\/2024\/09\/mini-moon-cakes.jpg\" alt=\"Tray of homemade mini moon cakes; small circular cakes,\" class=\"wp-image-710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/files\/2024\/09\/mini-moon-cakes.jpg 287w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/files\/2024\/09\/mini-moon-cakes-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lishan Sung &#8211; NUREN Advisory Board This year the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival \u4e2d\u79cb\u8282 (zh\u014dngqi\u016b ji\u00e9), also known as the Moon Festival fell on 17 September 2024. It is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The eighth lunar month is the middle of autumn and according to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/2024\/09\/17\/chinese-mid-autumn-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nuren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}