There were twelve stands selling a variety of Mid-Autumn festival goods, such as Mooncakes, Turnip and Leeks Cake, Sticky Rice, Squid and Bean Curd Soup, Rice Flour Noodles and Taro Milk Tea.
A dance instructor led his students to the center of the festival. The dance students meet up each Friday to learn ballroom dancing as their children attend Chinese school.
Mid-Autumn Harvest festival is a holiday popularly celebrated in Taiwan, China and Vietnam.
Traditionally, families and friends gather with one another to eat a grand feast. The holiday celebrates the full moon and a Chinese pastry called, Mooncake.
Chen, the co-director of the Taiwanese Association, explained that Mooncakes are shaped to represent the full moon, and thus, celebrated at the 15th day of the first lunar month.
According to Chinese folklord, during the Yuan dynasty, the Mooncakes were used as a key element to overthrow the suppressing Mongolian rulings. Paper messages were hidden in the Mooncakes that depicted how to overthrow the government. On the night of the Moon Festival, Chinese successfully overthrew the government. Today, Mooncakes are eaten to celebrate their victory.
Mooncakes are round, 10 cm in diameter pastries; they are made out of eggs, and have sweet fillings, such as nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or dates. It is commonly compared to plum cakes or fruit cakes.
1 comment:
Good job! It was a nice job of reporting and writing, nice detail. And good video.
Don't start your sentence or your lead with 'when'. Start it with the subject --- much more interesting!
The video was good! The dancing was interesting --- coordinated? I would have commented on that during the video if I knew what was going on, or I would have asked them.
Maybe talked to a few more people, showed a little more of the festival, shortened the one interview.
But overall, very good!
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