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Everything posted by -Serenity-
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It's a cake, with many variation of filling, The most common are Lotus seed paste and Sweet bean paste with some sunflower seed or an egg yolk inside, but now there are many variant now, like green tea, tiramisu, chocolate, etc and even Ice cream!! (I wish I can Try the Ice cream one ) @Charlotte There are two tales about this festival 1.Mid-Autumn Festival The festival is intricately linked to the legends of Chang E, the mythical Moon Goddess of Immortality. According to “Li-Ji”, an ancient Chinese book recording customs and ceremonies, the Chinese Emperor should offer sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. The 15th day of the 8th lunar month is the day called “Mid-Autumn”. The night on the 15th of the 8th lunar month is also called “Night of the Moon”. Under the Song Dynasty (420), the day was officially declared for Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of its central role in the Mid-Autumn festival, mooncakes remained popular even in recent years. For many, mooncakes form a central part of the Mid-Autumn festival experience such that it is now commonly known as 'Mooncake Festival'. 2.Ming revolution There is a folk tale about the overthrow of Mongol rule facilitated by messages smuggled in moon cakes. Mooncakes were used as a medium by the Ming revolutionaries in their espionage effort to secretly distribute letters in order to overthrow the Mongolian rulers of China in the Yuan dynasty. The idea is said to be conceived by Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) and his advisor Liu Bowen (劉伯溫), who circulated a rumor that a deadly plague was spreading and the only way to prevent it was to eat special mooncakes. This prompted the quick distribution of mooncakes, which were used to hide a secret message coordinating the Han Chinese revolt on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Another method of hiding the message was printed in the surface of mooncakes as a simple puzzle or mosaic. In order to read the encrypted message, each of the four mooncakes packaged together must be cut into four parts each. The 16 pieces of mooncake, must then be pieced together in such a fashion that the secret messages can be read. The pieces of mooncake are then eaten to destroy the message. I'm bad at explaining so I just copy from wikipedia, my fav tale is the revolution one
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Past Room Of The Week Entries Matsuri Week
-Serenity- replied to Gaiamaiden's topic in The Art Gallery
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Happy moon festival / 中秋節快樂 for everyone that celebrate it!! I'm celebrating it right now, eating mooncake and I supposed to watch a large, beautiful full moon right now but the RAIN! ruin it!! Another bad thing is, Suddenly I have toothache and can't eat to much mooncake My Mooncake Milky's moon festival room
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BAC Presents... BINGO!! - Congrats Spitfir3 & Nymph!!!
-Serenity- replied to smorkle's topic in ■■■BAC--Box Addicted Club■■■
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Past Room Of The Week Entries: Weekend in Japan
-Serenity- replied to Gaiamaiden's topic in The Art Gallery
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PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD updated: Have cc's for trade.....
-Serenity- replied to kiviern04's topic in Trading
Hello Serenity.... with the total of what u have to offer for cc's... i divided that total with my trade rate, and that comes out to be 11cc's. Let me know if this works for you. I am work, and I will not be home for another 8 hours or so. send me a FR with a note, if you'd like, if you will want to trade... have a great rest of your day.... I see! I want to buy 5CC (Japanese School Uniform bundle) So it's 15*3333 right? Send you f/r trade/pymnt recv'd sent.... positive rep added.... have a great weekend Item received!! thank you very much Adding rep -
PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD updated: Have cc's for trade.....
-Serenity- replied to kiviern04's topic in Trading
Hello Serenity.... with the total of what u have to offer for cc's... i divided that total with my trade rate, and that comes out to be 11cc's. Let me know if this works for you. I am work, and I will not be home for another 8 hours or so. send me a FR with a note, if you'd like, if you will want to trade... have a great rest of your day.... I see! I want to buy 5CC (Japanese School Uniform bundle) So it's 15*3333 right? Send you f/r Hello serenity.... FR accepted.... I will only be on for a few hours.... then i work again tomorrow, for 12 hours...so i wont be back on again till this time again tomorrow.... Sorry for my wacky schedule... Let me know what you feel comfortable with... Okay I'll send you the item now You can send the item when everything is already done there -