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Midautumn festival and uprising7/14/2023 You'll probably need to take a taxi over. If you want to see more of the parades and lanterns you will need to go over to the mainland to Insa Dunia, Kampung Baru, Bukit Mertajam between 7pm and midnight. It won't interfere with your sightseeing. (ProjectManhattan / CC BY-SA 3. Traditionally they were filled with red beanpaste but there are more modern fillings such as cheese and chocolate. Mooncakes are part of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. There will be mooncakes on sale for many days beforehand. You will see lanterns and mooncakes on sale everywhere and most malls put on some sort of a display. In Penang, children carry beautiful paper and plastic lanterns around the neighbourhood to celebrate. Secret messages hidden in mooncakes were circulated by the rebels who escaped detection and managed to overthrow the Mongols, leading to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. *It also marks a Chinese uprising against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in the 14th century. Li Longji thought that the name of Hu Cake. One year of Mid-Autumn Festival night, Li Longji, an emperor of Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), and his Concubine Yang were eating Hu cakes. Another Mid-Autumn Festival fun fact is that the mooncake was once called Hu Cake. Today her ascension to the moon has been associated with the mooncake festival. The mooncake was named by Concubine Yang of the Tang Dynasty. Her immortal power abandoned her and she was doomed to keep her lonely vigil till the end of time. When she got there she found the place to be desolate except for a hare under a cassia tree. Thanks to Chinas success in combating COVID-19, people can celebrate the festival in delight. Therefore she made an unscheduled stop on the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival is the most significant festival in China, as people get together with their family to moon gaze, eat moon cakes and enjoy shared joy under the light of the fullest moon of the year. She became very worried that god would reprimanded her due to her selfish misdeed. By doing so, she became immortal and started to float towards heaven. *The myth and legend behind the Mid Autumn festival started when a woman called Chang E, in her quest for immortality, drank her husband's share of a rare and precious elixir. The mooncake festival is also known as the Lantern Festival or Mid-autumn Festival.
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