The Chinese Garden
Mid-Autumn Festival of 2015 is celebrated on September 27. The holiday in China starts from September 25 to September 27. The celebration is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is the middle of the autumn season (the autumn season being the seventh, eighth, and ninth lunar months.) In the Gregorian calendar, the festival falls sometime about mid- to late September, or early October. It was also a custom for the general public to worship or pay homage to the moon in mid autumn in just about every lunar August.
Besides the sacrificial ceremony in the royal level, the worship of the moon is an crucial activity among the people in a additional casual way. For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of melon seeds, nuts, lotus-seed paste, smashed red beans, and dates. Pastry and skin made out of durian and flour is utilised …
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