21092010
TUESDAY
18:49
STREET 81
MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL.
this little peice of information is from Wikipedia :
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiujie (traditional Chinese: 中秋節), or in Vietnamese "Tết Trung Thu", is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomelos under the moon together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:
~Putting pomelo rinds on one's head
~Carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns
~Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang'e (Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin: Cháng'é)
~Planting Mid-Autumn trees
~Collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members
~Fire Dragon Dances
~In Taiwan, since the 1980s, barbecuing meat outdoors has become a widespread way to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Shops selling mooncakes before the festival often display pictures of Chang'e floating to the moon.
I've been debating whether to email HK about the festival, but i don't want to remind him about his plight any further.
yeah, i haven't been myself recently, staring and going to places alone again. it's the pit bottom feeling of helplessness and i can't do anything about it. music is not helping, and i'm quickly running out of things to sketch. I've put off writing this blog long enough, because every time i see the blog skin i just want to go a million miles away from this place. i don't know why either.
i mean, people tell me i should be happy. and yes, there are times when i am really happy: with my lovable cellies and family. but there are times when I'm alone, and then tears start coming down randomly. or i start to blank out with random memories, or i suddenly stop feeling happy because i feel so grossly overwhelmed that i don't deserve to be happy. it sucks especially in front of people I'm not so close with; they think I'm suffering from depression, going crazy or something close.
doing research on Old English houses for my essay. at this rate I'm five pages of size 10 font, so i have hope that it can be a small novel. the joke is maybe i can put all my blog posts together and name it "The Diary of a Science Wannabe" and then stock the shelves with it. don't snicker - it could be possible. I'm just saying.
♥ I'VE GOT HEAVEN ON THE INSIDE OF ME.
peace and joy God has set me free.
peace and joy God has set me free.
