Do foreigners celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in our country, in fact, foreigners also have a Mid-Autumn Festival, only they are not the same as our country in the festival's call and festival customs. So let's take a look at how foreigners celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

One, Myanmar "Hanukkah"

Myanmar people in August "full moon day" to open the lights, to celebrate "Hanukkah On the night of the festival, all the houses are illuminated, as bright as day, everywhere is the "night township". The moon in the sky and the lights on the ground shine brightly in Myanmar.

The King of Myanmar personally presides over the celebration every year. The king is also in the guards and civil and military officials surrounded by, out of the palace to watch the lights and hold a grand alms. All over the country, there will be all-night movies, plays, dances and songs, and there will be large-scale alms and fasting activities in the pagodas.

Two, Sri Lanka "Moon Festival"

Mid-Autumn Festival, in most Asian countries and regions is once a year. However, Sri Lanka's "Full Moon Festival", is according to the custom of the Buddhist calendar, every month when the moon is full, we will have a festival, of course, to the Mid-Autumn "Full Moon Festival" is the most grand.

"Full Moon Festival" this day, Sri Lanka national holiday. After arranging the delicious food early, all the good men and women rush to the temple or shrine to listen to the sermon and worship the moon. After listening to the prayers, people sit around in the courtyard and enjoy the moon over the delicious food.

Cambodian Moon Festival

Cambodians celebrate the Moon Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the twelfth lunar month. Early in the morning, people start to prepare gifts for the moon, some pick flowers, some dig cassava to make soup, some pound flat rice, some boil sugar cane water, a happy and busy.

At night, people put the offerings on trays, place the trays on a large mat in front of the house, and wait for the moon to rise in the east. When the moon rises above the treetops, people worship the moon and pray for blessings. This means "fullness" and "harmony". Everyone enjoys the food and leaves.

Four, Laos "Moon Festival"

Laos called the Mid-Autumn Festival "Moon Festival". Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, men and women of all ages will gather to enjoy the moon. At the same time, when night falls, young men and women dance all night long, which is very interesting.

The Lao Chinese attach great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival: on this day, the whole family is reunited to enjoy the moon and eat mooncakes, and there are also "burning incense", "walking on the moon" and "releasing lanterns", The "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", "Lighting Pagoda Lanterns", "Dancing Fire Dragons", and "Trailing Stones" were also practiced on this day, "Selling Rabbits" and other festivals.

Fifth, Nepal "Desai Festival"

"Desai Festival", also known as the Durga Festival, held every year between September and October when the moon is full, held throughout Nepal, nine consecutive days!

The Dussehra festival, also known as Durga Puja, is held every year between September and October when the moon is full and lasts for nine consecutive days.

On the night of the festival, before the moon rises, people come in groups to the courtyard or square to carry out various recreational activities. When the moon is high in the sky, people sit in a circle in the plaza to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Singapore Mid-Autumn Festival

Singapore is a country where the Chinese make up the majority of the population, and has always attached great importance to the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. For the Chinese in Singapore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a great opportunity to bond and show appreciation.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people who are busy in their daily lives give each other mooncakes as a token of their greetings and wishes. This is a way to express the love and friendship among friends and to send their homesickness in a foreign country.

Seven, Malaysia eat moon cakes

Eating moon cakes, enjoying the moon and carrying lanterns in the parade are the Mid-Autumn Festival customs of the Malaysian Chinese that have been passed down from generation to generation. As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, long-established merchants have launched mooncakes of various colors. Some local Chinese associations in Kuala Lumpur are currently holding lantern parades to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mooncake counters have been set up in major shopping malls in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and advertisements for mooncakes in newspapers and television stations have created a festive atmosphere to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to dragon and lion dances, floats carrying "Chang'e" and "Seven Fairies" roamed the city.

Eight, the Philippines Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival to which the Filipino Chinese attach great importance. Manila's Chinatown is bustling with activities held by the local Chinese diaspora, including a dragon dance parade, a national costume parade, a lantern parade and a float parade.

The main commercial streets in the Chinese neighborhoods were decorated with lanterns, banners were hung at major intersections and on bridges entering Chinatown, and many stores sold mooncakes, either homemade or imported from China.

Also, Iran calls the Mid-Autumn Festival "Makkahr". In Africa, residents of the island of Calcutta call the Mid-Autumn Festival the "Full Moon Festival". The United States called the Mid-Autumn Festival "Autumn Moon Festival". I can't imagine that so many countries celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? The first time I saw this, it was a very good time for me.