Introducing Mid-Autumn Festival+Pics from Gardens by the Bay - 中秋节+滨海湾公园之中秋 (by @ace108)

ace108 (76)in #photography • 8 years ago

Image source: Groupon

Mid-autumn festival is celebrated by Chinese in various parts of the world. It's not a holiday in Singapore but it is in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This festival is observed on the 15th day of the 8th month according to the lunar calendar. So, it is not the same date in our modern day Gregorian calendar every year. This can between in September to early October. For this year (2016), it falls on 15th of September.

It's somewhat a celebration of togetherness because you spend time with your family and close friends. In Singapore, the children's play will involve carrying their lanterns but I heard on a TV programme this is not an activity popular in northern China. Perhaps, it's an evolution of another activity - solving the riddles hung on lantern. Several years ago, I too carry a lantern and walk around the neighbourhood but the lanterns were lighted by candle. When an unfortunate child's lantern caught fire, the naughty part of us will think "better you than me". Now, the lantern a mostly powered by battery which takes the fun out of seeing something go out in flames.

Another big deal about the mid autumn is the moon cake. As with many festival, the mid autumn festival is also much commercialise and the sales of moon cake started about a month ago. I'm more familiar with moon cake which have filling of lotus paste, yam paste or bean paste. There are so much different flavours that I don't think I can name them all. There is even durian (yes, durian) and I saw on Groupon - star wars cake (that's the picture of one design at the start of this post)
Image source: Groupon
Here's where go get them if it's still available:
https://www.groupon.sg/deals/singapore/hong-kong-mei-xin-mooncakes-11/100872163
If you want some meat in your moon cake, see how @xiaokongcom do it in:
The girl taught you how to make a meat-stuffed mooncake. sorry, only Chinese version.

For more details about mid-autumn festival, check this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

If you are thinking of going out with your family for mid-autumn festival in Singapore instead of eating moon cakes and sipping Chinese tea at home, have a look at this link from Singapore Tourism Board:
http://www.yoursingapore.com/festivals-events-singapore/cultural-festivals/mid-autumn-festival.html
The 3 prime locations are:
1. Chinatown
2. Gardens by the Bay （http://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/whats- on/calendar-of-events/2016-mid-autumn-festival.html）
3. Chinese Garden

世界各地华人都庆祝中秋节。在新加坡中秋节不是公共假假，但中秋节在中国，香港和台湾是假日。中秋节是农历的第8个月的第15天。所以，它在我们现代公历每年都不是同一个日期。农历8月十五在公历九月到十月初。今年（2016年），中秋节是在公历9月15日。有庆中秋的朋友都知道庆中秋有庆团圆的意义-与家人和亲朋聚在一起。在新加坡，儿童有提灯笼在外走走。但我看过一个电视节目，在中国北方没提灯笼的习惯。也许，这是从猜灯谜的灯笼而演变出来给小孩乐乐的活动。小时候，我也提着灯笼在家附近跟邻居游玩。当时灯笼是用蜡烛点亮的。当一个不幸的孩子的灯笼着火，总免不了幸灾乐祸一番。现在，灯笼主要由电池点亮。少了一番乐趣。

中秋节少不了月饼。在中秋节也被商业化的今天，月饼早在一个月前已开始销售。我吃的月饼一般是莲蓉，芋泥或豆沙馅。现在的月饼口味真多。甚至还有榴莲（是的，榴莲），我看到Groupon的 - 星球大战月饼。在这帖的第一图就是星球大战月饼之一。要上网购就到这页：
https://www.groupon.sg/deals/singapore/hong-kong-mei-xin-mooncakes-11/100872163
如果你想在你的月饼有肉馅，看@xiaokongcom教你做月饼吧：
妹子教你烤鲜肉月饼。

有关中秋节的更多资料，请点击此链接：
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 中秋节_（华人）

如果你正在考虑在新加坡与家人外出庆中秋，而不是在家吃月饼和品茶，看看新加坡旅游局的这页：
http://www.yoursingapore.com/zh_cn/festivals-events-singapore/cultural-festivals/mid-autumn-festival.html
有三个好去处：
1.牛车水（既是新加坡的唐人街）
2.滨海湾公园 (官方网页只有英文详情： http://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/whats-on/calendar-of-events/2016-mid-autumn-festival.html)
3.中国花园

Here are some of lantern decorations at Gardens by the Bay which I took from last 2 years.
接下来，分享一下前两年在滨海湾公园拍的中秋装饰。

I'll do a separate post with more of the photos I took at Gardens by the Bay for previous mid-Autumn festival. Watch for it or better...
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Here are posts about my travel:
这是我有关出国旅游的帖：

Here are my post for Singapore activities:
这是我有关新加坡活动的帖：