Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival
On the evening of Sept. 28, pepper lights and paper lanterns lit the Habersham Hall Courtyard, thus transforming it into the setting for the Mid-Autumn Festival hosted by the Chinese Student Association and the ISSO.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, a symbolic celebration of happiness and prosperity, has been celebrated for over 2,000 years and is usually held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The morning’s are traditionally spent worshipping the sun, but when night falls families gather for a ceremony in praise of the moon. There are many myths regarding its origin however, today it is still a widely celebrated Chinese festival.
SCAD students celebrated the gathering by eating a traditional Chinese feast while enjoying each other’s company and live entertainment. The highlight of the night, however, was the karaoke competition.
Lobna M. Deghedy, an interactive design and game development graduate student, was pleased with the event.
“I think this year is great and the vibe is really good. And the food was amazing,” she said, hugging her raffle prize, a box of moon-cakes — a symbolic pastry shared during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
“It’s more than I imagined it would be!” said the association’s president, Libo Zhou, a third-year fibers major who was especially pleased with the turn out and hopes that the tradition will continue in the years to come.
