Of all foods offered during the Moon Festival, the mooncake is the most distinctive. Lanterns of all sizes and shapes are carried and displayed as symbolic beacons that light people’s path to prosperity and good fortune. These symbolic fruits are still used to give thanks for the bountiful harvest and to promote fertile fields and bigger crops.” Peanuts were offered for abundance of life and prosperity, while pomelos, melons, oranges, apples, pomegranates and grapes were offered to promote sweetness, purity and fullness of life. “Some believe that at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered in the moonlight. “Celebration offerings consisted of yam, lotus root, star fruit, taro and lung gok, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns,” Yip explained. As a result, the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually evolved into a widely observed event of thanksgiving. Farmers were joyful for their good harvest after a year of hard work. Traditionally, the Moon Festival was considered a celebration of crops because fruits, vegetables and grains were about to be harvested.
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The Chinese have celebrated the harvest during the autumn full moon since the Shang dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE).
The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations date back over 3,000 years. This year, it falls on Saturday, September 10, 2022, although it will be celebrated at Wo Hing on the 17th.” The date in the Western calendar changes annually. It occurs close to the autumnal equinox, when yin and yang are in perfect balance. The Chinese tradition says that on this day, the moon is at its brightest and fullest size, coinciding with the harvest. This is the exact middle of autumn, which is why it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. An ancient tradition, the Moon Festival occurs during the Harvest Moon on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. “It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon, an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Busaba Yip, Wo Hing Museum docent and cultural director. “Chinese around the world celebrate the Moon Festival as one of their happiest and most important festivals of the year - a time for relaxation and celebration of the happy life,” said Dr. In the evening, colorful lanterns are lit in the yard, and an altar is set up to worship the Moon Goddess with incense and candles. In the morning, a service is held as a way to honor the earth and land gods, as well as remember ancestors. Since then, it is one of the LRF’s and Wo Hing Museum’s special events.
For various reasons, the celebration was discontinued until the year 2001, when the Moon Festival was brought back as an annual event by the Wo Hing Society. “We invite everyone to come down to Front Street and take part in the festivities.”Īccording to the Wo Hing Society Research Document’s project, Zhong Qui Jie, also known as the Moon Festival, is one of the events of the Wo Hing Society dating back about 100 years. “We are so pleased to honor Lahaina’s Chinese heritage during this year’s Moon Festival,” said Theo Morrison, executive director of LRF.
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