Also this year the Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived. The traditional Chinese festival which occurs during the period of full moon in autumn and in which mooncake is eaten together with your beloved ones, family, friends, in order to symbolize union and relationships. Mooncakes are small cakes which are meant to represent the moon.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all the Chinese people and to every non Chinese people who still enjoy to celebrate this beautiful recurrence with the people they most care about.
I haven’t done it, even if me and Chinese friends have seen various videos on Douyin (Chinese TikTok) on how to do it, so in theory we know how it is made, even if have never practiced. Have not even bought them in local Chinese pastry shops of my city, but have bought them directly in China, as during my trip to China, they were already available in pastry shops, so wanted to try mooncakes directly from China.
Talking about things to do during the festival, there are several, like watching the moon, making lanterns, worshipping the moon and obviously, eating mooncakes. At the end just eating mooncake is the most quick and common way to celebrate this beautiful festival.
There’s not such festival in Italy too. It is a typical Chinese festival, so it is celebrated internally inside the Chinese community, also in Milan obviously. Italian people without strong ties to the Chinese community and culture maybe are not even aware of this festival.
Thank you so much for the additional information about the moon festival. For me it was a pleasure to learn how it’s celebrated and where it is well known. Chinese traditions are very interesting as well as your story!
Are there any interesting festivals happening in Italy soon?
@KatyaL Right now there are no Italian festivals coming, a part the religious ones regarding the before Christmas, Christmas and after Christmas festivals, from November to January.
In my country (Bulgaria) we will have the National independence day celebrations on the 22nd of September and then we have as well the Christmas celebrations. Тoday is actually the name day fo many people hre who are named after the 3 Saints (St. Hope, Love and Trust) who are daughters of St. Sophia and we celebrate the national holiday of the capital city Sofia because of this
