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Tomorrow is Mooncake - Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival Is Here Again!

This year, the Lantern Festival or Tung Chiu falls on Saturday, Oct 3. Mooncakes have been sold almost a month ago and this year, perhaps because of economic slowdown, prices have never been so low. Discounts, too, are plentiful. Most unique are those that have become halal.

I remember the times when mooncakes come with generous amounts of lard, and some meat chunks in 'kam tui' variety. You can hardly find those anymore, and the same goes with the lanterns.

See the picture above? Modern lanterns made of cardboard paper or plastic with running lights. No more glass paper and wire frame ones in the shape of rabbit, dragon, cockerel and pigs. Times have changed, indeed.

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Mooncake Festival - Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Lunar Month

Mid Autumn Festival or Toong Chiew Chit or Teong Chiew Chiat (in English, Cantonese and Hokkien respectively) is celebrated on Sept 14, which falls on Sunday.

If you have been going around, you would have seen lanterns of various shapes and sizes being sold, and mooncakes too.

Besides the Chinese New Year, this festival is also one of the important ones celebrated by the Chinese community. While elsewhere it is known as Mid-Autumn Festival, down here it is also called the Lantern Festival.

Spun from the legend of the Goddess of the Moon Chang Er and Hou Yi the great archer, the Mid Autumn festival, also known as moooncake festival for the characteristic sweetmeat eaten during the occasion, is believed to be the most auspicious occasion in the Chinese lunar calendar system.

Couples who want to tie the knot choose the special day, which is the Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Lunar Month. It is believed that the moon is at its brightest and is fullest this night.

Lantern parades and parties are held on this day. Several years ago, the MP held a lantern parade. Will the new MP hold a lantern parade in Desa Setapak where his service center is?