Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

On the 15th of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, it's time for the chinese traditional feast, Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. Parents in china always expect their children to come home to celebrate the special feast with them. Now that i have worked at home, i have more spare time to arrange by myself. So i went home early near several days before Moon festival coming. This's the first time to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with my family since i have gone out to work far from home 9 years ago, i wanted to experience the happy felling enjoying feast with my family.

At it happens, Moon Festival this year was in Gold Week, my brothers and sisters came back to my parents'house brought fresh fruits, moon cakes with them. My parents had a busy morning by preparing rich food, chicken, duck, rabbit, fish and vegetable. In this time, parents always cook more dishes they could think tasty to treat us, not only us, their children, but also their grandchildren. After the whole morning busy, sitting beside the table and enjoying the delicious dishes, smiling to all their children, my parents showed happy expression and we gave the blessing to parents. The only wish my parents gave us was to bless entire family happy, health. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the symbol of family reunion, the day for family members to get together and enjoy the full moon-an auspicious taken of harmony, and luck.

To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional dessert, moon cake, is absolutely necessarily. For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet filling of nuts, mashed red beans, almonds, melon seeds, lotus-seed paste or chinese dates, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. Some people like fruit cakes which all kinkds of fruit can be found filling in. All these, moon cakes with almonds filling in are my favorate.

Unhappily, it's raining on Moon Festival this year, the desire expected to go out with family under the stars for wolking up at the full silver moon couldn't come true. Remembered years ago on Moon Festival, after nightfall, went out with family under full moon, putting moon cakes on the tables, eatting, talking, thinking of the relatives or friends, as well as those who are far from home. As it is said in china, "The moon at the home village is exceptionally brighter." But i could still enjoy the happy felling of the Moon Festival, for i stayed at home with my family and celebrated the special feast.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!