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Moon cakes © Singapore Tourism Board
Moon Cake Festival
This festival, also known as the Lantern Festival or Mid-Autumn
Festival, commemorates the 14th-century revolution led by Yuan
Zhang who smuggled notes inside moon cakes and used lighted
lanterns as a signal to launch the revolt. One of the highlights of
the festival is the Moon Cake Fair where hundreds of festive stalls
line the streets of Chinatown selling an astonishing variety of
moon cakes, traditional paper lanterns, decorations and other
delicacies. Children parade down the streets with their brightly
lit lanterns in the Children’s Lantern Procession. The
Chinese Garden becomes a fairyland of lights and colours for the
Lantern Festival, and there is also a range of cultural shows and
performances including lion and dragon dancing, Chinese
instrumentalists and craftsmen.
Venue: Chinatown and Chinese Garden;
Date: 28 February 2010;
Website: www.chinesefortunecalendar.com
