By: Abigail Trapp Moon Festival

Moon Festivals You know all of those celebrations you went to and the fun you had. But it’s probably not as fun as the Moon festival! It has a good point of celebrating. Moon Festival is to celebrate the end of the harvest! That is why I will talk a lot about food.

Food you Eat Yummy! Nice and hot the way I like it. Most of the time Chinese eat salty duck, egg yolk, nuts and moon cakes when it’s Moon Festival. Before eating you set the food on the table. You take a candle in your hand and light it on fire. Then pray for your ancestors. An ancestor is somebody that you know who’s dead. You put out the food as an offering. Then you can have your dinner. Did you Know farmers had to grow food for over 1 billion people? Poor guys working in the hot sun. Well the food is still good.

Moon Cakes Fresh from the bakery! Home made moon cakes! You would find them all over China. They come in all different flavors. For example red bean the most common. People have moon cakes for lots of festivals. They make moon cakes round like the moon.

Tradition and Beliefs Look at those lanterns in the sky softly floating in the sky. Paper lanterns are very delicate. They rip easily. The Chinese thinks the moon glows the brightest and the biggest when it’s moon festival. The Chinese also think there is a rabbit and a girl on the moon. Quite an imagination. The rabbit is called the Jade Rabbit. There are many legends about how the girl got on the moon. There are so many legends that sometimes I forget witch one I believe. All of them are interesting but different.

The world is filled with things to know and now you know some more.