{"id":962,"date":"2023-08-18T07:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T07:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mid-autumn.local\/?page_id=962"},"modified":"2023-09-06T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T03:46:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mid-Autumn Festival, affectionately and more commonly known as the Mooncake Festival (Singaporeans love food!), is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.<br \/><br \/>As the moon is closest to the Earth on this day, it\u2019ll appear brighter. Hence, this festival is also traditionally associated with \u201cmoon appreciation\u201d parties, or <em>shangyue<\/em>. Mooncakes are round in shape, just like the full moon, therefore signifying reunion. Because of the belief that the Moon Goddess extends conjugal bliss to couples, the festival is also a popular day for marriages.<br \/><br \/>In the olden days, people would prepare offerings like mooncakes and pomelos for the moon. They\u2019d also burn joss sticks in hopes that the moon would bless the family. Over time, the festival\u2019s celebration in Singapore slowly evolved. Nowadays, family and friends gather to enjoy mooncakes, go for lantern walks, moon-gaze, solve lantern riddles and more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"sources mt-4\">\r\n<p>Info source:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kOa7iYtcRW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaki Says: Mid-Autumn Festival<\/a><\/li>\r\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>\r\n<li>Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations, Chinese Customs and Festivals in Singapore, \u201cZhong Qiu Jie (Mid-Autumn Festival)\u201d, p.68<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Autumn Festival, affectionately and more commonly known as the Mooncake Festival (Singaporeans love food!), is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. As the moon is closest to the Earth on this day, it\u2019ll appear brighter. Hence, this festival is also traditionally associated with \u201cmoon appreciation\u201d parties, or shangyue. Mooncakes are round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"about.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\/962"}],"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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/mid-autumn\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/962\/revisions\/1503"}],"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=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}