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Day Moon Festival

the occasion of the Feast of the Moon, we offered our members a taste of moon cake. Some families celebrate
to the moon perpetuate the traditions of our ancestors came from China. It's a family celebration.

Origin of the festival
This festival which falls in the middle of the fall back to the Tang Dynasty (AD 200 years BC).
Two poets, Yuen Fen and Zion Lion are the first to sing the beauty, clarity of the moon this evening.
And the Emperor Tang Ming Fang was formally established this feast in inaugurating his palace of the moon with a parade of beautiful girls transformed into goddesses of the moon.

Service Day
The Chinese people are an agricultural people, which is based on the lunar calendar to determine the different cycles in their planting.
Depending on the position of the moon, farmers expect rain or shine or hail in the coming days. They
their seed or crop based on the lunar calendar.
So the moon is a planet very important for farmers whose prosperity depends on it. They revere it more than the sun.

The 15th day of the 8th lunar month, the moon appears larger and brighter and precisely at this time of year, farmers have just completed their harvest of wheat and rice planting peanuts and sweet potatoes end fall. It is the pause and farmers to make profit through the moon for good harvest and also reward those who have worked hard in the fields. So it is a harvest festival.

All family members get together in peace around a good table.
Peace: Happiness is the most wanted in every family.
Full Moon symbolizes the happiness (union and peace). The round
means that all is well: no tip, no angle.


The moon cakes symbolize the moon in 3 aspects:
- stuffing with ham, almonds: gold, prosperity and wealth.


- Stuffing with an egg yolk is the moonlight.


- Stuffing with black melon seeds shell: the universe with its galaxies.





In all civilizations, myths and traditions are transmitted orally. It is normal that there are several variants of the same legend.

Here a version of one of the legends associated with this festival:

History of the Revolution
From the Year 316, China was occupied by the Mongol Dynasty Yen.
Each family was required to house and feed a Mongol. All political meetings were strictly censored.
To rebel against this state of bondage, some people had the idea to include in each moon cake before cooking, a leaflet asking each family and a precise time of his decapitating Mongol. And the cakes were distributed in each house. The slogan was followed. It was the beginning of the revolution against the Mongols. But this aspect
Memorial on the national level is much less felt that the traditional appearance.