Also known as the Mooncake Festival or the Lantern Festival, is usually celebrated sometime in September.
Friends and family are invited over to play a game, where you take turns to roll dices in a bowl and you should get the red number 4, in order to receive a prize. Nowadays, they improve the prizes, instead of getting mooncakes you get pretty things or candies, depends on your host mood.
I have been playing this game ever since I was a kid. And I love the part where you get the prizes you want.
There are different kind of versions for this game, I don't know all of it. But the rules of the game usually falls on the game master.
Lanterns is also displayed during this time, since during the olden days, kids are allowed to go outside during at night to take a peek at the moon, and they bring lanterns with them.
I remember my Pa telling me a story about the Mid-Autumn festival, he said that way back in China, this was only celebrated with lanterns, then some of the chinese people wanted to overthrow the government, but they where having a hard time with their plans, so in order to keep things in secret, they place the messages inside of a mooncake, and delivered it to their comrades, where the time and date of the attacked was relayed. So they successfully overthrow the enemy and establish the Ming Dynasty. And mooncake is eaten every Mid-Autumn to commemorate them.
I don't know if that is real, but I love the stories my Pa tells me.
Happy Mooncake Festival Everyone!
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