Today I’ll be introducing vocabulary about the Moon Festival!

Welcome back to Crown’s vocabulary series~

Last episode we introduced Starbucks vocabulary

today, I’ll be teaching about the traditional holiday, Mid-Autumn Festival

and the English vocabulary you should know!

It is again that time of the year when we celebrate

Mid-Autumn Festival with our loved ones

This festival is often celebrated

around September and October

Many Chinese rank it as the second most important festival

of the Chinese culture, right after Chinese New Year

First of all, let's look at the word, 中秋節

中秋節 in English is Mid-Autumn Festival

This festival is also called Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival

Next up, 月餅

月餅 in English is mooncake

The most popular and important tradition

during this festival is to eat mooncakes

This is a cake made with wheat flour

and a variety of different flavored stuffings

Mooncakes are often round-shaped

this is because in Chinese culture

roundness symbolizes completeness and togetherness

Then we have, 柚子

柚子 in English is pomelo

Pomelo is the most commonly eaten fruit during this festival

Next we have, 桂花酒

桂花酒 in English is cassia wine

(Isn't Ke$ha that singer?)

Yeah

Tick-tock on the clock (Tik Tok lyrics)

Tonight, make it pop, DJ...... (wrong lyrics lol XD)

Drinking this wine signifies a happy life and family reunion

Then we have, 烤肉

烤肉 in English is barbecue

People would either barbecue out in the open or in restaurants

Then, 團圓飯

團圓飯 in English is reunion dinner

Next, 燈籠

燈籠 in English is lantern

Next we have, 傳說

傳說 in English is myth

The most popular myth and legend for this festival is

嫦娥奔月 Chang’e flying to the moon

Legend has it that

Chang’e drank the elixir of immortality and flew to the moon

That is why this festival is often depicted

with the picture of a beautiful lady with the moon

As you can see, today I tried cosplaying into 嫦娥 and

here's the moon

Similarity 100%

Then we have, 賞月

賞月 in English is moon-gazing

Last, 颱風

颱風 in English is typhoon

Typhoons usually occur

in the late summer and early autumn time in Taiwan

Depending on the location of their occurrences

even though they are all the same, they will be called different names

In the northwestern Pacific, these storms are called “typhoons”

in the Atlantic, these storms are called “hurricanes”

and in the Indian Ocean, these storms are called “cyclones”

And now that you know all the basics about the Moon Festival

you can introduce this Chinese culture to your foreign friends

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