We celebrated the mid autumn festival or moon cake day within meal with our family at our mother's home. Xie Mei was the cook. We followed up with an evening walk through a large park in Nanning that had been transformed into a lighted Wonderland, including dinosaurs, birds, insects grass trees about everything you could imagine light it up for display, along with a dragon or two.
Mooncakes are often small brown filled cakes prepared around the mid autumn festival. They come in many varieties of fillings.
Mooncakes Symbolize Family Reunion
In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and togetherness. A full moon symbolizes prosperity and reunion for the whole family. Round mooncakes complement the harvest moon in the night sky at the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The mooncake is not just a food. It's a profound cultural tradition deep in Chinese people's hearts, symbolizing a spiritual feeling. At Mid-Autumn Festival people eat mooncakes together with family, or present mooncakes to relatives or friends, to express love and best wishes.
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