Happy Moon Fest!! (belated)

[SolarGarlic]

The date of Chinese Moon Festival (a.k.a. Mid-autumn Festival) is on the 15th moon day of 8th Chinese lunar month (Chicken month). The new moon day is the first day of a Chinese Lunar Month. Since the first day of 8th lunar month is 8-28-2003, the Moon Festival is on 9-11-2003 in China time zone. But the Moon Festival is on 9-10-2003 in USA time zones, since the new moon day is on 9-10-2003.

Year 2003, the Chinese Moon Festival is on the full moon day. The full moon time is in the morning, not at night. People in USA cannot enjoy the full moon moment in the Moon Festival night. But, people in China will enjoy to watch the NEAR full moon while eating moon cakes in the night of the Chinese Moon Festival.

The Moon Festival is a holiday in China. It's an occasion for family reunion. Chinese families like to get together to eat the moon cakes and watch the moon at the Moon Festival night. For the people are out of town or for Chinese are from China stay in USA, they miss their family or the lover at home and share the same moon at the night of the Moon Festival before the Internet gets popular.

During the Yuan dynasty (A.D.1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D.960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without it being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Baked into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government. What followed was the establishment of the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend

[c-towns]

Dude, you said the word moon 24 times in your little rant there, I'll show you a moon, white and hairy.