'May each other share the beauty of this graceful moonlight, even miles apart.’ The Mid-Autumn Festival of warm reunion is coming. On the occasion of this festival, all the staff of Quadranteco sincerely send holiday wishes to you. We wish you all a happy and festive holiday. At the same time, we also would like to thank our customers who have been supporting and trusting Quadranteco! You are our motivation to adhere to good quality products!
According to records, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a common folk festival, and the official lunar calendar August 15 as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been offering sacrifices to the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, playing lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine. Like the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a big day for family reunion. On this day, many people will bring their families and all kinds of holiday gifts back home to get together with their elders and have a big family reunion dinner. After the family reunion dinner, we get together to enjoy the full moon, drink tea, eat moon cakes and talk about our daily lives. The feeling of peace and warmth is so wonderful!
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is bright. People would sacrifice to the moon. Offering to the moon is a very ancient custom in our country. In fact, it is a kind of worship for the "moon god" of the ancients. Since ancient times, in parts of Guangdong, people have worshiped the moon god in the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes, pomelos, apples, dates, plums, grapes and other offerings are placed on the big incense table. Under the moon, the tablet of "moon God" is placed in the direction of the moon, with red candles burning high, and the whole family worship the moon in turn, praying for happiness. In addition, playing lanterns is also a form of Mid-Autumn festival custom. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three lantern festivals in China. Although the Mid-Autumn Festival does not have a large Lantern Festival like the Lantern Festival, playing lanterns is still one of the important activities. The lively atmosphere makes everyone very happy. Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns are mainly played between families and children.
In addition to offering sacrifices to the moon and playing with lanterns, eating mooncakes has become an essential custom for celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in the north and south of China, where people eat mooncakes to symbolize "reunion". Moon cakes were originally used to offer sacrifices to the moon god. Later, people gradually regard moon appreciation and moon cakes as a symbol of family reunion. However, although the moon cake is delicious, we need the control of food intake. Moon cake contains more sugar and oil, and most of the moon cake mainly baked. We suggest do not eat too much in one time , in order to keep healthy.
There are various kinds of moon cakes, the common moon cakes are with below: Cantonese moon cakes, teochew style mung bean mooncake, snow skin moon cakes, five kernel moon cakes, lava custard mooncake, meat moon cakes and so on. Sweet or salty taste moon cakes have their own strengths. It is not only a traditional Chinese food, but also loved by many foreign friends. With the continuous improvement of living standards, new flavors of moon cake are introduced to the market every year for enriching the taste of mooncakes. It's great to get together with family or friends and enjoy a cup of tea with delicious moon cakes and other cakes.
Being a lonely stranger in a strange land, people would miss their family more on very festival day. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many people who cannot go home to celebrate the festival. However, no matter where we are, we can feel the warmth of our families as long as our heart are always with them. Greetings on the phone, ‘face to face’ chats on video calls, and holiday gifts sending back and forth are all the ways to express our love for family. Here, we wish you a happy holiday. Wish everything you hope to be fine all become fine.
