#mid-year festival

[juneborngia]

This is my breakfast after “Tết Đoan Ngọ”.

Hella greatttt!

[cryoflovver]

Happy Mid-Autumn & Sukkot to my fellow Chinese-Jewish households! 🥮🌿🍋🌕

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Chinese hanfu of moon goddess chang'e嫦娥 who lives in guanghangong广寒宫/ guanghan palace (meaning the cold and spacious palace) on the moon. The styling and makeup are often inspired by the chang'e from the costume drama journey to the west (1986 version) and referenced classic chinese paintings. Chang'e flying to the moon is a household story in china. That's why China named its lunar probe series chang'e.

In addtition to chang'e, the looks of yutu玉兔/jade rabbit and guihuajing桂花精/sweet osmanthus spirit are also popular choices for chinese hanfu on mid-autumn festival. Jade rabbit is the pet of chang'e who makes 长生不老药chang sheng bu lao yao/elixir by grinding and smashing herbs every day, and if one takes the elixir, one'll live forever and become immortal (that's the story of yu tu dao yao玉兔捣药/jade rabbit grinding herbs). And guihuajing/sweet osmanthus spirit involves another story about the moon, wu gang fa gui吴刚伐桂/wu gang chopping osmanthus tree.

Wu Gang is a man who wants to learn the secret of immortality but doesn't want to put in the effort. His laziness angers the Jade Emperor, who punishes him by sending him to the moon palace to cut down the osmanthus tree every day, and he can go back to the earthly world when he's finished. It turns out that every time he cuts down the tree, the osmanthus tree automatically recovers its original shape, so wu gang's work will never be finished. According to the story, he cuts down the tree to this day, as a neighbor of chang'e. So his desire to live immortal was realized in an outrageous way lmao (the wisdom of jade emperor). However the chinese myths never says how wu gang and chang'e were related or how they get along, if they ever chatted or anything like that. We only know they are neighbors.

It's funny that no one has ever dressed up as wu gang on the zhongqiu/Mid-Autumn Festival, probably because he doesn't have a specific image or people think he is nobody and don't care about him, and I think it would be especially fun if someone dressed up as a wu gang standing next to chang'e holding an axe as her bodyguard.

In short, yutu and guihuajing are often represented with elements of bunny, osmanthus flowers, and mooncakes respectively, and the colors are usually sunrise orange or bright yellow, many with a distinct xianxia仙侠 style. There are also some historical styles as well.

[lxh-arts]

The moon！( ･֊･ ) (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)ﾉﾟ

[eled0ra]

Happy moon festival 🌝

[iron-sparrow]

元宵快樂 ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

點亮燈籠 light up lanterns 點亮希望 light up hope 願你在新的一年 may your new year be 裡事事順利 peaceful and without troubles

The Lantern Festival 《元宵節》 marks the end of traditional Lunar New Year celebrations. Growing up, kids were typically the ones lighting lanterns and running around with them. These days, I mostly just acknowledge the start of the new year by eating two tangyuan 《湯圓》 and sending well wishes into the great wide void — in the hopes that they will reach someone who needs them.

As I eat the tangyuan, I think back to when I used to bite holes into the sticky rice balls and suck out the sweet black sesame filling, leaving just the outside for my mother to eat. Guess I was a born gremlin.

When posing Yein for 元宵, I made sure to give them a very ornate lantern. My mother talked to me about having very simple paper lanterns — red to symbolize good fortune — as a child because nobody could afford the fancy ones. Well, now Yein has the nice fancy one my mother always wanted, and they will light a path toward the coming year with it.

Let us go forth and grow together.

[heliosphere-underthesky]

Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome, Year of the Wood Dragon 2024! 🌙🐉🧧 Here's Luna all dressed up for the festivities!

Timelapse under the cut! (VOLUME WARNING)

[windsweptinred]

Uppermill, Lancashire, England Nov. 23

[kjzx]

So, lesson learned: the calico eggs from the calico festival don't get saved after it ends and hence can't be used next year, I just spent 3 days mostly in the caves earning a currency I didn't end up spending 🙃 (150+whatever the adventure guy would've given me for gathering like 10+ eggs in the caves on the last day)

[cheezyhamster]

The Woman on the Moon

[everything-maxriemelt]

Happy mid-autumn festival 🥮❤️

[fortune-maiden]

Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pei Ming & Shi Qingxuan, Jun Wu & Shi Qingxuan Characters: Pei Ming (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Shi Qingxuan, Jun Wu (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Additional Tags: and other heavenly official npcs, Mid Autumn Festival, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, sqx is a tsundere, sqx is also jun wu's favorite daughter, in a way that is not worrying, probably, Protective SQX, Pei Ming's Backstory Summary:

“Me again? How does this keep happening?”

It's tradition at this point for Pei Ming’s salacious tales to be featured in the Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet, and he downs the wine in a single gulp to great applause. The curtain can’t rise faster than the anticipatory whispers, as everyone wonders what sort of stage they’ll find the general on this year. A palace? A brothel? Maybe an enchanted forest?

They get a battlefield.

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While trying to write a different kind of Pei Ming h/c fic, I remembered this draft exists and decided to clean it up and post it ;w;

I hope you enjoy! <3

[lxh-arts]

Let’s go view the moon tonight~~☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

It’s the mid-autumn festival this weekend!

[sanpape]

I wanna buy a nice Chinese tea set but now I just gotta convince my cousins to do tea parties with me. Like, could I have cha time by myself? Yea obviously. But it's a 10000x more fun if I get everybody to dress up nice and drink tea with me.

[gxtzeizm]

well if you seeing me wearing this season's liverpool purple away kit that i've already bought yesterday, no you don't 🙃🙃🙃

[lochlanratliff]

seeing ethel cain tomorrow <3333