Reminiscing during the Mid-Autumn Festival ...

via collages of the full moon as seen from our side of the world and Chinese calligraphy of popular phrases expressing the nostalgic sentiments.

Celebrating Mooncake Festival ...

... Chinese painting and calligraphy style, in addition to partaking of the delicious mooncakes. The painting is obvious, while the calligraphy is of a famous Chinese poem penned by a Chinese poet during the Sung Dynasty, Su Shi, or better known as Su Dong Po, overlaid on a moon shot taken while on the USF campus.

Celebrating Mooncake Festival

The mooncake festival (aka Mid-autumn Festival) is an annual Chinese festival celebrated on Aug 15 based on the lunar calendar, which is today. Apart from enjoying the delicious mooncakes, the kids would be forming a parade of hand-held lighted lanterns (traditionally with candles but battery-operated versions, which pose no fire hazard, are also available) while the adults would be participating in cracking the many word riddles. That would be the atmosphere back home. Here in US we have to settle for having some friends over for dinner followed by partaking the mooncakes that we have bought from MD Oriental, a local Chinese grocery store.

As with most other occasions of celebrations, sending greeting cards are also the norm. Especially in this Internet age, e-cards have become the preferred mode for the Internet savvy. And I received the following e-card from the daughter of my friend back home, Jiayi, just yesterday. Thanks, Jiayi.


Since I like painting, I have decided to draw a card to share with you all where the two vertical lines, which mean "though we are thousand miles apart, as long as we are safe and sound we can still bridge the sky to share the majestic moon together," are taken from a famous poem penned by a Chinese poet during the Sung Dynasty, Su Shi, or better known as Su Dong Po.