Mooncake Festival Singapore (also known as Lantern Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival) is one of the most colourful events celebrated by local Singaporeans and some foreigners – particularly the Chinese. In the olden days, Chinese farmers celebrated the harvesting seasons on this date. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. On this day when you look up to the sky, the moon is the roundest and brightest which to the Chinese it symbolizes abundance and riches.
How Singaporeans Celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival
We celebrate Mooncake Festival with fun of course. But for many, it is a great occasion to renew old ties with their families, loved ones, relatives, old friends and old colleagues. Many of them hold a reunion, gathering and a lot of eating.
Traditionally, mooncakes are the Stars of the Day. They are linked to the celebration of the Moon Festival even though sweet delicacies have always been a part of Chinese celebrations. Cakes filled with lotus seed paste, a moon cake comes at the size of a human palm but is for diagonal cutting of four pieces. In the middle, it has a full moon shaped salty yolk with a flavorful taste and represents the moon, but these cakes may come with four egg yolks to signify the moon’s four phases.
