Lanterns are both a great decoration and a fun children’s toy. Lanterns, candles and incense are the primary items you’ll need. It’s also traditional to buy 13 mooncakes for your own family’s celebration to bring good luck for an entire lunar year…but that’s a whole lot of mooncakes. Mooncakes are typically gifted in tins of four, though you can also wrap a single mooncake nicely, if you’re giving someone a mooncake you’ve made yourself. Use my Mooncake Buyer’s Guide, if you’re ordering from a Chinatown bakery, or my Mooncake recipe, if you’re planning to make your own. You’ll want to have mooncakes on hand to gift to close friends and relatives, as well as to enjoy at your own celebration. Either way, you’ll want to choose your dinner and picnic venues and invite your close relatives to attend. Others will stay at home for dinner and go to a local town square or park for moongazing, if they expect others to be out as well. Some families eat a reunion dinner at a local restaurant before returning to the backyard at home for mooncakes and tea. Here’s a step-by-step guide to planning a perfect family celebration for the Mid-Autumn Festival.ġ. Given the time pressures we all face, I would suggest picking some elements from the checklist below to outsource, while retaining a few items to create at home as cherished traditions for your own family. As almost everything for the celebration can be bought or ordered in, the evening can be as simple or elaborate as you choose.
There are two components to the night: a) a family dinner and, b) an outdoor picnic under the moon. Expect to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival on the weekend before the holiday, so that everything goes off smoothly on the big evening. All this means that you may have to be a bit more organized and determined as you get ready for the holiday.
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