{"id":1082,"date":"2023-08-22T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dstnct-dev2.com\/mid-autumn\/?page_id=1082"},"modified":"2023-09-18T05:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:52:17","slug":"mid-autumn-101","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/mid-autumn-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s said that in the past, families would light lanterns around their houses, and hold ceremonies to make offerings such as mooncakes and pomelos to the moon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Traditionally, a full moon symbolises completeness and is associated with family reunion. Other than gathering with the family for \u201cmoon appreciation\u201d<em> (shangyue)<\/em>, lantern-carrying, and mooncake eating, watching performances such as Chinese opera, cross-talk and puppetry are also popular activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Osmanthus flowers also usually bloom during the festival period, and are much-admired as symbols of purity and innocence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sources\">\n<p>Info source:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eresources.nlb.gov.sg\/infopedia\/articles\/SIP_804_2005-01-13.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singapore Infopedia &#8211; Mid-autumn Festival (Zhong Qiu Jie)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kOa7iYtcRW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaki Says: Mid-Autumn Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s said that in the past, families would light lanterns around their houses, and hold ceremonies to make offerings such as mooncakes and pomelos to the moon. Traditionally, a full moon symbolises completeness and is associated with family reunion. Other than gathering with the family for \u201cmoon appreciation\u201d (shangyue), lantern-carrying, and mooncake eating, watching performances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"mid-autumn-101.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}