During my time in China, it’d be the Yue Bing Jie (Mooncake Festival). It’s actually the first time in modern history that they have a holiday for Yue Bing Jie.
That’s cos in China they used to only have three 1-week holidays called Golden Weeks. One for Chinese New Year in Feb, one in May for Labour Day (Communists are big on labour day) and one in October for Independence Day. But this created huge chaos for the travel industry as millions would travel back to their villages by planes, cars, rail and ships. So just this year, they abolished the May and October ones and spread the holidays across the festivals. Yue Bing Jie is one such festival. Ba Zhang Jie is another one.
So it’s a holiday on 15 Sept. My pretty friend said she can only meet me on 13 Sept and lunch on 14 Sept cos she got to stay home on the night of 14 September. So it’d be a lonely Sunday night on 14 Sept for me. Maybe I’ll buy one mooncake and put a candle on it.
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