When seeing a friend’s photos of tempting moon cakes on Facebook, I just realized that this year’s mid-autumn festival falls on tomorrow. I start missing those old days when we celebrated mid-autumn festival with grandma and cousins. It’s exactly what people called: ‘每逢佳节倍思亲’.

I still remember how we gathered to admire the mid-autumn harvest moon and how we ate moon cakes, and played lighting lanterns, candles and pomelo peel under the brightly full moon when I was a kid. This’s one of my most cherish childhood memories for sure. Char hasn’t celebrated it for 8 years, but I did eat moon cakes occasionally.

The full moon is a symbol of peace and prosperity for the whole family. Its roundness symbolizes wholeness and togetherness. When I have my own family, I promise to buy my kids some colorful lanterns and keep celebrating the mid-autumn festival traditionally.

The Dutch weather sucks these days. Hopefully, I’ll see the brightly full moon from my little home’s window tomorrow evening. I’m going to bring some moon cakes home to devour with bb as well.