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Mooncake Festival

Mooncakes are Chinese pastries traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This festival is for lunar worship and moon watching.

Mooncakes are offered between friends, family or people while celebrating the festival, this year celebrated on the 3rd of October.

Mid-Autumn FestivalIt is intricately linked to the legends of Chang E, the mythical Moon Goddess of Immortality. According to Li-Ji, an ancient Chinese book recording customs and ceremonies, the Chinese Emperor should offer sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. The 15th day of the 8th lunar month is the day called Mid-Autumn. The night on August 15 is also called Night of the Moon. Under the Song Dynasty (420), the day was officially declared for Mid-Autumn Festival.Because of its central role in the Mid-Autumn festival, mooncakes remained popular even in recent years. For many, mooncakes form a central part of the Mid-Autumn festival experience such that it is now commonly known as 'Mooncake Festival'.

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Mooncake Festival

In Vietnam, mooncakes are known as bnh trung thu (literally "Mid-Autumn cake") and may contain a variety of fillings, such as savory roasted chicken, mung beans, coconut or durian.

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Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiu Jie (traditional Chinese: ), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people and Vietnamese people (even though they celebrate it differently), dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty.[3] In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival.

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Vietnamese Mid-Autum Festival

Children celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival with traditional 5-pointed star shaped lantern; named "Tt Trung Thu"The Vietnamese version of the holiday recounts the legend of Cui, whose wife accidentally urinated on a sacred banyan tree, taking him with it to the Moon. Every year, on the mid-autumn festival, children light lanterns and participate in a procession to show Cui the way to Earth.

Vietnamese Mid-Autum Festival

If accepted by the host, "the lion" will come in and start dancing as a wish of luck and fortune and the host gives back lucky money to show thankfulness.In Vietnam, Mooncakes are typically square rather than round, though round ones do exist. Besides the indigenous tale of the banyan tree, other legends are widely told including the story of the Moon Lady, the Jade Rabbit & the story of the carp who wanted to become a dragon.

Lion Dancers are important event before & during Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival.

According to legend - 3 fairy sages transformed themselves into pitiful old men, & begged for food from: a fox, a monkey, & a hare. The Hare Jade Rabbit The Story of Sacrifice & GivingThe fox and the monkey both had food to give to the old men, but the hare, empty-handed, jumped into a blazing fire to offer his own flesh instead. The sages were so touched by the hare's sacrifice and act of kindness that they let him live in the Moon Palace, where he became the "Jade Rabbit".

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