In this week’s blog, I will be talking about the moon festival. However, the moon festival isn’t the only name the festival has. Its also commonly knows as the mid-autumn festival and the lantern festival. The festival gets its name from always being in mid-autumn. The festival also has a few legends accompanying it. Some of these legends are the legend Chang E Flying to the Moon, Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine, Wu Gang Chopping Laurel Tree, and Zhu Yuanzhang and the Moon Cake Uprising. I personally only heard the first legends before searching why do we celebrate the moon festival. After some, researching I learned about the legends and why we have this festival. In the beginning, the festival was supposed to celebrate the summer harvest.
For this year’s moon festival, my family held a moon festival dinner. Some family and family friends were invited to celebrate. The one who actually cooked all of the food was my grampa. He made a bunch of Chinese dishes. Some dishes were beef, fish, tofu, and more. While my grampa was cooking dinner, most of the guest were watching Spiderman Homecoming. Unfortunately, I was upstairs studying for an upcoming science test. Because of this, I didn’t go downstairs until dinner was ready. After dinner, I did a bit more studying and stayed downstairs for a while. Soon we had mooncake and a tofu dessert. Soon most of the guest had to leave because it was a school day tomorrow.
Overall, I really enjoyed the meal and learning about the moon festival. Before this, there was one time in school where I learned about the legend Chang E Flying to the Moon. Unfortunately, I forgot most of it. After researching, I relearned the legend Chang E Flying to the Moon and learned about other legends. In the end, I had a good meal and learned a bit more about my culture.