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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by the Chinese dating back over 3,000 years. Farmers celebrate the end of the harvesting season on this date and Chinese family members and friends gather to gaze at the bright harvest moon and eat moon cakes. As a homage to this time of year, LA's Chinatown will host the 73rd Annual Harvest Moon Festival on Saturday,...
Shortages of Apple's iPad 2 extends from the actual Apple gadget to paper versions that are used to burn for the yearly Qingming Festival in Asia, Reuters reports. Also known as the tomb sweeping festival, Chinese families in Malaysia celebrating the Qingming Festival honor their ancestors by burning fake money or replicas of luxury items such as flashy cars and designer bags.Stemming from Confucian teachings of loyalty to family and tradition, the festivities are widely observed among the...
BEIJING, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- As October approaches, so does the 2009 Mid-Autumn Festival in China. The China Guide invites you to share in the festivities and try one of the longest-standing cake recipes in history -- the Moon Cake. Moon cakes are created in hand made wooden molds that give them their traditional shape. Filled with lotus seed paste, duck eggs and yolks (and other variations) they are different than a western style cake. Fillings vary and some are heavier...
By Ira Kantor Boston's Chinese community came together under the Chinatown Gateway arch yesterday to celebrate an important date of the lunar calendar, the Harvest Moon Festival. Also known as the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, the event celebrates a 14th-century Chinese uprising against the Mongolians, when plans for the revolt were smuggled into Chinese households inside small cakes. These are now commonly known as moon cakes and are eaten as part of the festivities. Among those who...
By Fayen Wong SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It's the time of the year many Chinese businesses dread -- the hungry ghost festival, when families avoid moving house, couples postpone their wedding plans and tourists shy away from beach resorts. But businesses may be hit by a double whammy this year due to an oddity in the Chinese lunar calendar that results in two "seventh" months -- also known as the hungry ghost festival, when the gates of hell open and the dead walk among the living. The...
BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 3,000 local tourists got lost in the crowds on Beijing's vast Tiananmen Square over the week-long May Day public holiday, a newspaper said on Tuesday. Mobile police units set up on the square, south of the Forbidden City, handled 3,568 missing person cases, with 1,661 made on May Day alone, the Beijing News said. According to police equipped with loudspeakers and able to broadcast missing person messages in multiple dialects, 70 percent of those...
BEIJING -- Virtual carnations, memorial messages and tribute songs are some of the online services available to China's Web surfers too busy on Wednesday to pay proper respects at the graves of their ancestors.As China passes Tomb Sweeping Day -- a traditional festival where people pray, offer food and burn paper money at relatives' graves -- authorities are urging people to care for the environment and honor relatives online instead, Xinhua news agency said.Several cemeteries and funeral...
By Ben Blanchard and Lucy HornbyBEIJING/SHANGHAI -- China marked the start of the Year of the Dog on Sunday with fireworks and dumplings, as the biggest holiday in the Chinese world reached a crescendo.In Beijing, residents were allowed to set off fireworks and firecrackers in the city for the first time in 12 years, and used the opportunity with gusto, filling the sky into the early hours with brightly colored explosions.At midnight on Lunar New Year's Eve in Shanghai, China's richest and...
