Just the other day, the moon was exceptionally big, bright and round. The moon seems to be exceptionally big, bright and round each year on the fifteenth day of the eight month of the lunar calendar; during the mooncake festival, the season for merry making. People eat mooncakes on this day and children carry lanterns and there is much merry making. Parties will be organised in some homes and in schools and Chinese associations too; besides lantern-making competitions. No wonder adults and children both love the festival. Empress Dowager Cixi had been known to enjoy it so much that she would stage elaborate rituals for several days and the children in Vietnam never have it better. The festival is dedicated to them. There, it is called the Children's Festival but I suppose, it would leave both children and adults sweet memories...like it leaves us ours...
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