A full moon overhead and the whole family by your side along with goodness in your heart celebrating the Chinese Moon Festival… What’s there not to like?

Well, I am no Chinese, but Wang Ling is! She is a colleague and a good friend. I love Chinese food and that’s where my connection to all things Chinese ended until I discovered their family and customs.

Amazing culture theirs! Enjoyed every bit of the festival and their way of celebrating it.

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The idea behind the festival is even more beautiful. It is about a beautiful harvest and a lot of happiness that is shared among all.

Festivals are just not holidays to have fun, but a lesson in living if you look at them up close.

They are a time to be together and not live like islands as on other days of the year. When there is a crowd and that crowd is made up of people whom you care for and who care for you then that itself is a festival.

Festival is nothing but a moment of joy.

Chinese Moon Festival is celebrated for the same reason as any other festival anywhere in the world is celebrated for – to share and spread love to fellow human beings.

Share and spread love on good days.

Give me a person who is perpetually sad and give me a family which is together and I will place him in their midst and there will be a smile in that dejected soul within a matter of minutes.

That’s what love can do.

Chinese Moon Festival did that for me. I grinned, smiled and laughed. Felt like a part of that happy family.