"Hey, come on, join our party, don't be alone". This is what my best friend said to me in the night of the mid-autumn festival when I was in America. Although my parents are not here that let me felt a litte bit lonely, but I could still celebrate with my friend last year. The mid-autumn festival is on August 15th every year. This holiday is symbol "reunion" in each family. Also you can celebrate with your friend. As a a person in foreign country, several missing in the mid-autumn festival can let me value Chinese culture even thought I live in America.
The atmosphere of mid- autumn festival is an important part of this holiday. In China, when the mid-autumn festival is coming, the atmosphere is as good as new year. If you say The New Year is the most popular holiday that you like, then the mid-autumn festival is the second one that the people like in China. People will prepare some food in their home. When the sunset in that holiday, the sky will be full of stars and the moon is bigger than usual. People will eat their dinner at outside while they are enjoying the beautiful sky. However, the atmosphere in America seems to be nothing happen. Even in Chinatown, when you go on the street, nobody discuss this holiday with people.
Special food can let me know mid- autumn festival coming soon. Before the mid-autumn festival, people start to sell a special food for this holiday and we call the food mooncake. We can only eat mooncake near this holiday. After that we don't have it to sell anymore. Because moncake the symbol of this holiday. If in this holiday
doesn't have mooncake, that doesn't work in this holiday. Even though people sell mooncake in united states , the mooncake is not delicious as in China, it is too normal. If people eat some delicious mooncake in foreign country, they will value this holiday in different way, they will remember mooncake what they eat after this holiday, and remember this holiday too.
Family members contact each other in mid-autumn festival. In this holiday, people should come back at home even though they have to work because this holiday mean reunion in each family. People can watch fireworks in this holiday. Also you can do other activities with their family. I live in America now , and my parents are not here. That why I miss them too much. But my friend said to me that I could talk with my parents on the phone this year. Although I can do that, I am still felling lonely in this holiday while I am in America.
Although I live in America, I never forget the mid-autumn festival as Chinese culture in my life. When my friends said "don't be alone", I laughed to them. Some of my friends might asked me what happen can let me happy. But I didn't tell them. Alone could let people unhappy in any time, so you should go back and celebrate the mid-autumn festival with your family because this holiday mean reunion. This holiday will let you value your family and China culture.