Longevity Cakes
The moon is full and round in mid-fall time, ie the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. This is roughly the same time the autumn and spring equinoxes, the solar calendar. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvest in the Mid-Autumn Festival of old.
The roundness of the moon symbolizes the meeting and for Chinese families usually meet during this period holiday. In some countries it declares holiday to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival.
When I was younger, he would mooncakes (a kind of fruitcake made from lotus seed paste or bean paste red mist as filled with nuts and egg yolks with salt), yams and grapefruit, after dinner on the terrace when we look at the sky and enjoy the most perfect, most Bright Moon. I marvel at the stars and constellations and have many questions. And we'll talk and play with our lanterns at hand under the moonlight.
Mooncakes are a core in the Mid-Autumn Festival, also the lanterns. According to legend, mooncakes helped municipalities to make the revolution in Chinese Han the Mongols against the sentence.
A rebel've devised a plan to overthrow the Mongols putting messages inside round moon cakes and approval of these friends everywhere on the pretext that they honor the longevity of the Mongol emperor. The embedded message in the moon cake has the date and plan to fight against the Mongols. The 15 eight months, the survey showed more than wiped out the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty (according legend).
It is amazing how creativity has used a very simple and ordinary to achieve great things. No wonder we said that breeds creativity despair! What the hopelessness and the limitation of what is facing today? What do you achieve? Once such a thirst for success will provide the creativity and strength to overcome their fears and limitations.
If you walk in the city of China will see new varieties of moon cakes to level today. Yes, we even have "cakes Moon ice cream to the skin (the best kept cold in the fridge) and chocolate cake (where the East and West). Watch Although creativity is still alive today!
If you have a point this season you may want to watch the moon and the stars and listen messages I have for you. The entire universe is filled with lessons that teach us if only we open our ears to listen.
Mid-Autumn Festival of the full moon or the means to harvest and Thanksgiving and meeting with others. This season, I'll look to the moon, and I know that members of my family in distant lands will be watching the moon and even enjoy the same benefits. And know that "somewhere there under the moonlight, the someone thought of you and send you much love tonight … "
Cats on the Internet and videoconferencing to take Instead of messages sent by nature. Remember to let nature speak to you creatively every day.
Having a moon cake or the environment are wonderful festival and creativity of a long life!
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