Attending one of the stunning lantern lighting displays around the city.Eating mooncakes - we’ve rounded up the best ones in town.Having a traditional Chinese dinner with family - popular autumnal dishes include Peking duck and hairy crab.With current restrictions in place, you can make the best of the night by: Due to an influx of visitors over the weekend, the lantern festival has been suspended this year. TraditionsĪnother time-honoured tradition is the lantern lighting at Tai O Village, where the stilt-house fishing town’s streets are lit up with beautiful handmade lanterns in all shapes and sizes. In all versions, Chang’e drinks the liquid, becomes immortal and reaches the moon. There are alternative versions out there including one where Chang’e steals the elixir from her husband after he becomes a tyrannical ruler and one where she is simply greedy and steals it out of selfishness. Her husband, devastated, honoured her by displaying fruit and cakes she liked as offerings to her every night. She began floating up into the sky and landed on the moon, becoming the moon goddess. But when one of his apprentices broke into his house and attempted to take the elixir, Yi’s wife Chang’e swallowed the potion. As a reward, he was given an elixir of immortality. The hero Hou Yi, an excellent archer, shot nine of the ten suns that beat down on the land, leaving one for light. There are many legends out there associated with Mid-Autumn, spanning different cultures and peoples, but the most commonly cited tale is “Chang’e flies to the moon”: Honouring the autumn harvest dates back as early as the Shang dynasty (the earliest recorded Chinese ruling dynasty), but it’s thought to have gained popularity as a celebratory festival during the early Tang period and was officially designated a specific day (the 15th of the 8th month) in the Northern Song dynasty.
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Origins Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print “Chang’e flies to the moon” from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
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