Chinese Mid-autumn Festival

      My hometown inJiang Wancun in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province, China .

     annual Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cake Wuyuan’s family should be and fruit, pastries at the table, warm hospitality. Dinner is Wuyuan Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, is a time of reunion and the U.S. United States, a very rich dinner dishes.

      After dinner, the moon is home to a major program Mid-Autumn Festival, I remember in my childhood, watching the dragon is our favorite thing these kids had. It has taken our country in the form of farmers to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, which is an ancient custom. Straw woven grass dragon from the dragon, dragon incense poking out, insert the following more than 20 sticks. In the dark of night, the dragon body incense, scattered, and are very beautiful. More than 20 young men, raised his stick and grass dragon dance, dance on the board when the dragon as the Chinese New Year, this is to pray for happiness, Figure auspicious. The village people would come to see the village where the most wide dragon dance. Firecrackers and fireworks sounded from time to time, a festive atmosphere. Sometimes, there are several dragons, dragon different teams, but also competition. Behold the most realistic air of dragons, children, adults, are all very happy. Etc. After the home, Mom and Dad, they put a moon cake and pastry display in a small square table and give you Paoshang tea, watching the moon in the night sky with moon cake eating, chatting, everyday matters, to children who speak story. Home of the Mid-Autumn moon cake, there are two: linseed Meal and crisp months. Linseed Meal made from the flour, the thin skin from white sugar, white sesame, lard for filling, the outside of cake wrapped in white sesame seeds, a child, I have seen rural women to linseed Meal needle through a hole with cotton thread the linseed Meal to wear, hung the child’s neck. Linseed Meal now very few, and only in the “Tian-ding” when I could see the linseed Meal, only decoration only. Spread since the Mid-Autumn Festival Wuyuan Wuyuan crisp food is on, is the characteristics of Wuyuan food is rare around the county, Wuyuan flaky crisp on to Lee Hang on, Zhejiang source cakes better month. Month from the crisp black sesame, sugar, lard, nuts into the filling, in crisp outside and sweet, fragrant and delicious, is the former Mid-Autumn Festival Wuyuan people visiting friends and relatives, son-end section of the necessary gifts, and now some of the wanderer in exile who , get to enjoy this unique home food benefits, a feeling of homesickness.

       I particularly like home this festive atmosphere, is here to introduce to our friends, hope you have a chance to come to China to experience such fun.