This is the history of Chinese Mid autumn festival which always related to moon cakes (see more about Mooncake) and the legend. In Chinese dichotomy, the sun is yang (positive, active, or male) and the moon is yin (negative, passive, or female). According to the book Chou Li, the Chou emperors (1122-249 B.C.) had the custom of praying to the moon on the 15th night of the eighth lunar month. In the Ching dynasty, there were a sun altar in eastern Peking and a moon altar in western Peking; at the time of every autumnal equinox, the emperor offered sacrifices and prayed to the moon at the moon altar.

Before switching to the Gregorian calendar officially in 1911, the Chinese had used a lunar calendar since time immemorial; and even today, the Chinese still celebrate their traditional festivals by the lunar calendar. In each lunar month, the first day (the new moon) and the 15th day (the full moon) are major events; and the 15th day of the first month (the Lantern Festival) and the 15th day of the eighth month (Mid autumn festival, September 9th this year on the Gregorian calendar) are the largest celebrations besides the Lunar New Year and the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Chinese Cupid is called “the old man under the moon” ( ¤ë¤U¦Ñ¤H ) and uses a red thread to tie a man’s and woman’s feet together to make them man and wife–be they from hostile families or widely separated places.

The most lunatic mortal in Chinese history could have been the great poet Li Po (A.D. 701-762), who once invited the moon to have a drink with him and his shadow to form a band of three. Li finally drowned in a lake in an effort to catch the moon when he was drunk one night. Other Chinese legends about the moon abound.

Source : http://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/festivals/0995_MidAutumn.html

As Hong Kong gears up for the Mid Autumn Festival, the annual Mooncake madness has descended on to the city as bakeries strive to out do each other with the most delicious, most lavishly packed and, in recent years, most overpriced mooncake packages available.

If you’ve never heard of a Mooncake, let me fill you in. Only served during the Mid-Autumn Festival, these hockey puck shaped, pastry deserts are stuffed with salty egg yolk and sweet lotus paste. To put it more simply; they’re a cholesterol bomb. Tackle a whole pastry and you’ll need a new belt and a forklift to pull you home. That’s why, in recent years, chefs have been hitting the larder and stuffing the annual deserts with some more innovative, and lighter, fillings.

You can find Moon cakes made from ice cream, dipped in chocolate and even stuffed with cream cheese. See our Top Eight Modern Mooncake Flavours to see our favourites and save yourself having to buy new pants.

Source : http://gohongkong.about.com/b/2009/09/01/getting-creative-with-hong-kongs-mooncakes.htm

By: dilharasingh

Is Sex and the City one of your favorite serial TV?

It was never so cool and fashionable to download Sex and The City episodes and seasons.
Downloading is the latest trend on the World Wide Web and is generating a lot of buzz everywhere these days. From movies to videos, TV series, miniseries, games to music videos, so much is being downloaded at any point of time at various places on the Earth.

From my personal experiences I am writing down some things to be kept in mind while you download the famous, comedy drama Sex and the City or any other show as the process will obviously be the same for each one of them.

I single Sex and the City for its charm, the show all about four women, close friends owning very different personalities, their weird sex lives, as they go after their quest for that perfect love life as well as sex life. The show has been made on the famous book of Candace Bushnell of the same name. The women about whom we are talking about are: Carrie Bradshaw, a newspaper writer, Samantha, a PR lady, Miranda, solicitor by profession and Charlotte who works at an art gallery.

The themes covered on the show vary from sex, dating, friendships, love, multiple partners, society, one night stands, STD’s or sexually transmitted diseases, cancer etc, but all in a humorous way.

If you go surf through a good search engine like Yahoo, Google or AOL, you will find lot many sites that offer downloads of Sex and the City but in actuality very less of them are really good ones. You may ask your friends or cousins or colleagues but it is not necessary that what seems good to them fits your suitability criteria as well. Question, arises, how to make that choice. The one choice that offers minimum hassles and maximum entertainment to us. No one has enough time these days to waste upon and neither one like to waste money on useless pursuits.

If you just need to simply watch a particular episode of Sex and the City, the task is easy. Try a couple of sites and it is done with. Downloading is another game all together. More caution has to be observed and more procedures need to be followed.

There are some sites which will allow you download but will charge you on every video that you download. Now imagine that you need a complete season. That will mean that around fifteen episodes would have to be downloaded. Hence, for some downloads the idea is good but not for bulk videos.

All experts agree that the websites which are found to be the most genuine and legal ones, will always have a system of specialized memberships. Life time memberships ask you for one time payment for unlimited number of downloads for all your life. Other membership plans are for specific duration of time like say six months etc.

So go with them and have a great entertaining fun time.

Source : http://www.floweradvisor.com.sg/lifestyle/technology/television/130908/some_fundamental_ways_to_download_sex_and_the_city_episodes/

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