Moon Cake Festival Celebration in Malaysia
The moon, long an object of curiosity and worship, has inspired many stories in ancient China. While on board a boat, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, Li Po was probably trying to embrace the reflection of the moon, while he was drunk. He fell overboard and drowned. In ancient times people saw a round shape, such as family reunification, the appearance of a full moon as an opportune time for families to come together is. At no other time of year the moon is brighter and more complete onfifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. In 2009, the auspicious day falls on October 3, 2009, which is also known as Mid-Autumn Festival. Lantern processions and eat moon cakes are the highlights of the celebrations.
In Malaysia, a Chinese population, the Mooncake Festival is celebrated on a grand scale moderately with prayer and the reunion dinner. The altars are set up outside under the moon and the properties of the pomegranate, grapefruit, steamedCookie, calthrops water, mini yam mooncakes and place. The moon is worshiped, and there is a holiday, the moon and looked in the modern household, party and drink. Children who have held lanterns, and sometimes contests. According to the older generation on this day, no taboo on the moon should show the ears should be noted that a fairy of the moon is cut off a 's!
In Kuala Lumpur, Thean Hou Kung Temple Jalan Syed Putra is a big party every year, whilepartying like Penang is available in Chinese Assembly Hall or the Kek Lok See temple instead. The organizers of these festivals are Chinese corporations, associations and church administrators.
Weeks before the festival, mooncakes and lanterns are available for sale. In the Chinese district of many cities, especially in Kuala Lumpur, George Town, Malacca and Ipoh, red boxes are full of mooncakes stacked on the sales floor to restaurants and high-lanterns shaped like animals, flowers,Butterflies and cartoon characters dangle in clusters from toy shops and stores of incense. In accordance with the time, some of the lights are powered by battery, they are illuminated by candles still popular. Moon cakes are purchased not only for prayer and consumption, but they are given to friends and relatives.
Shaped like the surface of mooncakes are available in several traditional varieties. You can use black bean paste, lotus paste, brown, yellow bean paste and lotus seeds are fullpaste mixed with sugar. Normally, a well-preserved duck egg yolk is added to the filling. These mooncakes the Cantonese version and in addition there are also Hokkien style mooncakes that are less popular in a long cylindrical roller and Teochew mooncakes filled with sweet potatoes. In Malaysia, halal mooncakes are also available. To include only the more sophisticated palate of innovation in Malaysian mooncakes mooncakes ice, moncakes Pandanus, green tea and durian mooncakesMoon cakes.
The origins of the Mooncake Festival in the mists of time lost, but there are two legends associated with it. The first concerns its role in the overthrow of the Yuan dynasty (960-1280 AD), which was founded by the Mongols in ancient China. Under the repressive government of the Mongols, a group of people you meet have been banned, and it was decreed that each family has made it possible to lock hands to their food only an ax, which has been linked. E 'wasimpossible to organize any riots. Liu Fu Tong, a leader of the rebel province of Anhui, has asked permission of the pie District Officer, to bless the longevity of the Mongol emperor. The district manager agreed, and Liu made thousands of round cakes, which he called mooncakes. Each cake was a piece of paper that outlines the plan of attack. He said the recipients of mooncakes on the 15th day of the eighth moon, he'll eat moon. On that fateful day when the people of the sectionmooncakes, could coordinate a rebellion at the local level. Another rebel leader, Hung Wu Chu, run the chaos around the Mongol Emperor capitalized, and founded the Ming Dynasty in 1368).
Another legend Chang Er, the daughter of a poor peasant family was. When she 18, Hou Yi, a gifted athlete from the nearby village was attending to the chickens on the farm he saw his parents' and was fascinated by her beauty. In the coming days, he deliberately rodein addition to court again and managed to get up. He has taken his friendship, and soon became lovers. During the period of their courtship, a phenomenon that happens. The ten suns of the earth, the light turns into heat and bring summoned to appear. The rivers dried up and the land became barren, that hunger and mass destruction.
Hou Yi climbed the highest mountain he could find, and started his powerful arrows. One after the other nine of the only shotdown. The people rejoiced and made their king, Hou Yi. He married Chang Er, and lived happily for many years. Hou Yi, however, turned into a despot, and tried to seek immortality. He hired a magician to create an elixir of life for him. A prominent magician told him that he needed Elixir of children to be sacrificed as part of the process of creation. Hou Yi ordered his troops to tear children from their families, and the table elixir is almost complete.
AIn the evening he crept through the streets of Chang's appeal, which was housed in a tower in the palace. He searched and found the tablet. At that moment the magician broke Chang and quickly swallowed the tablet. The wizard raised an alarm and Hou Yi, the pill to force hurried to the woman tried on his return. It was too late. He had ingested, and to flee in their offer of Hou Yi was forced to jump from a window. However, they did not fall, but hung upthe moon, where he lives alone. Another version says that as punishment for stealing the elixir of life, Chang E 'was turned into a three-legged toad. Your pet rabbit was his companion and always beat the elixir of immortality in a large mortar. Today, it is assumed that people celebrate the Mooncake Festival Chang recalled.
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