One, Sri Lanka "Moon Festival"
Mid-Autumn Festival, in most Asian countries and regions is once a year. However, Sri Lanka's "Full Moon Festival", is according to the custom of the Buddhist calendar, every month when the moon is full, we must have a festival, of course, to the Mid-Autumn Festival "Full Moon Festival" is the most grand.
"Full Moon Festival" this day, Sri Lanka national holiday. After arranging the delicious food early, all the good men and women rush to the temple or shrine to listen to the sermon and worship the moon. After listening to the prayers, people sit around in the courtyard and enjoy the moon over the food.
The Moon Worshipping Festival
Cambodians celebrate the Moon Worshipping Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the twelfth month of the Buddhist calendar. Early in the morning, people start to prepare gifts for the moon, some pick flowers, some dig cassava to make soup, some pound flat rice, some boil sugar cane water, a happy and busy.
At night, people put the offerings on trays, place the trays on a large mat in front of the house, and wait for the moon to rise in the east. When the moon rises above the treetops, people worship the moon and pray for blessings. This means "fullness" and "harmony". Everyone enjoys the food and leaves.
Three, Laos "Moon Festival"
Laos called the Mid-Autumn Festival "Moon Festival". Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, men and women of all ages will gather to enjoy the moon. At the same time, when night falls, young men and women dance all night long, which is very interesting.
The Lao Chinese attach great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival: on this day, the whole family is reunited to enjoy the moon and eat mooncakes, and there are also "burning incense", "walking on the moon" and "releasing lanterns", The "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", "Lighting Pagoda Lanterns", "Dancing Fire Dragons", and "Trailing Stones" were also practiced on this day, "Selling Rabbits" and other festivals.
Four, Nepal "Desai Festival"
"Desai Festival", also known as the Durga Festival, is held every year between September and October when the moon is full, held throughout Nepal, nine consecutive days!
Desai is also known as Durga Puja, which is held every year between September and October when the moon is full and lasts for nine consecutive days.
On the night of the festival, before the moon rises, people come in groups to the courtyard or square to carry out various recreational activities. When the moon is high in the sky, people sit in a circle in the plaza to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Fifth, Singapore Mid-Autumn Festival
Singapore is a country where the Chinese make up the majority of the population, and has always attached great importance to the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. For the Chinese in Singapore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a great opportunity to bond and show appreciation.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people who are busy in their daily lives give each other mooncakes as a token of their greetings and wishes. This is a way to express the love and friendship among friends and to send their homesickness in a foreign country.
Sixth, Malaysia to eat moon cakes
Eating moon cakes, enjoying the moon and carrying lanterns on parade are the Mid-Autumn Festival customs of Malaysian Chinese handed down from generation to generation. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the old businessmen have launched a variety of moon cakes. Some local Chinese associations in Kuala Lumpur are currently holding lantern parades to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Mooncake counters have been set up in major shopping malls in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and advertisements for mooncakes in newspapers and television stations have created a festive atmosphere to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to dragon and lion dances, floats carrying "Chang'e" and "Seven Fairies" roamed the city.
Seven, the Philippines Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival that is very important to overseas Chinese in the Philippines. Manila's Chinatown is bustling with activities held by the local Chinese diaspora, including a dragon dance parade, a national costume parade, a lantern parade and a float parade.
The main commercial streets in the Chinese neighborhoods were decorated with lanterns, banners were hung at major intersections and on bridges into Chinatown, and many stores sold a variety of mooncakes, either homemade or imported from China.