{"id":67596,"date":"2023-08-01T23:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/finestservices.com.sg\/?post_type=blog&p=67596"},"modified":"2023-08-01T23:12:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:12:35","slug":"mid-autumn-festival-2023-september-29","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/finestservices.com.sg\/blog\/mid-autumn-festival-2023-september-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Autumn Festival 2023 – September 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Mid-Autumn Festival 2023, sometimes referred to as the Moon Festival or the Mooncake<\/a> Festival, is a customary Chinese holiday. Similar holidays are observed in Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and other East and Southeast Asian nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Chinese-speaking residents of Singapore enjoy celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. Despite the fact that it is not a public holiday, malls decorate and sell seasonal foods throughout this time of year. This day is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival both here and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese lunar calendar’s eighth month’s fifteenth day, which falls on a full moon day, is when the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated. This always occurs in the middle of the fall, maybe in late September or early October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preferred cuisine for this festival is moon cakes. These cakes have a sweet bean paste, lotus seeds, or another filling within. The Festival’s early history was intricately entwined with making sacrifices to the moon deity in order to obtain a plentiful harvest. Even though most people nowadays do not worship the moon, the cake is nevertheless in the form of the moon for this reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mooncakes – Mid-Autumn Festival 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mooncakes – Mid-Autumn Festival 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mid-Autumn Festival 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mid-Autumn Festival 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Numerous families go to Singapore during the festival night to view the numerous Chinese lantern and other light shows. Children like the Mid-Autumn Festival because, in addition to enjoying delicious mooncakes, they may wander around town with their parents while holding the strings of floating, fully illuminated lanterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lanterns were traditionally made of vibrant Chinese paper and lighted with wax candles. Today, however, you will also come across battery-lit, store-bought lanterns styled like well-known cartoon characters, as well as homemade lanterns constructed of cellophane bags and hanger wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/strong><\/td>Friday, September 29, 2023<\/td><\/tr>
Also Called<\/strong><\/td>Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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