Sunday, December 12, 2010

Battery Operated Paper Lanterns

The Mid-Autumn Festival, often known as the Moon Festival and the Chinese Paper Lanterns Festival, is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. This usually occurs round late September or early October when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the most important competition within the Chinese calendar, aside from the Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice (often known as Dongzhi Competition), and is a nationwide holiday in some countries.
Traditionally, throughout the Mid-Autumn Competition, farmers have fun the end of the summer season harvesting season on this date. Chinese language relations and pals gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and enjoy moon truffles and pomelos together.
Overthrow of Mongolian rule
According to Chinese folklore, the Moon Pageant commemorates an rebellion in China against the Mongolian rulers of the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368) in the 14th century. Group gatherings had been forbidden by the Mongolian rulers and it was not possible to orchestrate a rebellion.
As the Mongolians did not partake within the consuming of moon muffins, the rebel leaders came up with the idea of timing the revolt to coincide with the Moon Festival. They distributed thousands of moon desserts to the Chinese residents in the metropolis and cleverly inserted inside every moon cake a chunk of paper with the message: “Kill the Mongolians on the fifteenth day of the 8th month.”
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Pageant, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the Mongolian government. Following the overthrow of the Mongolian authorities was the establishment of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). As a result of the successful revolt, the Mid-Autumn Pageant was celebrated with moon desserts on a nationwide level.

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