Happy Mid-Autumn Festival !

We would like to wish our DPS Chinese and Korean families a happy Mid-Autumn festival! 

Chinese - 中秋快乐! Zhōng qiū kuài lè!

Korean - 추석 잘 보내세요 Chuseok jal bonaeseyo!

We hope those that are celebrating around September 29th have a wonderful day!

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What is Mid Autumn Festival? The festival was a time to enjoy the successful reaping of rice and wheat with food offerings made in honor of the moon. There is a full moon, and it is time to spend with family.

China - Mid Autumn festival is commonly called the Moon Cake festival. Mooncakes, usually made of a rich paste filling surrounded by a thin crust, are traditionally eaten while sipping tea and gazing upon the roundest, brightest moon of the year after a mid-Autumn family dinner.

Korea - Called Chuseok it is one of Korea's biggest holidays and is a three-day event full of lively festivities and joyous family reunions. People perform ancestral worship rituals early in the morning. Then, they visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants, clean the area around the tomb, and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors.

Koreans traditionally travel back to their hometown to spend time with their families, eat plentifully, and pay respect to their ancestors.

Similar holidays are celebrated in Japan (Tsukimi), Vietnam (Tết Trung Thu), and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.

By Ms Foster (Cultural Studies Specialist)