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ExpandIan Broderson and his son Shane spruced up their house and fence to the delight of passing rugby fans in Wanganui. Photo / Mark Mitchell
When Ian Broderson's wife told him to paint the fence before the Rugby World Cup started, she got what she wished for - and then some.
A flurry of flag hunting and a day's worth of painting later, Mr Broderson and his son Shane spruced up their house and fence to the delight of passing rugby fans in Wanganui.
"It came about when my wife kept whingeing about me not painting the fence," said Mr Broderson, a meat boner. They got all the flags they could from local shops and when some, like Namibia's, proved difficult to get their hands on, they painted the rest.
Although Rosalie Broderson herself was not available for comment, her husband was adamant she loved it.
The Brodersons' front lawn bore a special greeting for the American team staying in Wanganui, and the family were delighted when locals at the airport tipped off the players, who drove by to cheer from the tour bus.
Mr Broderson said they would dismantle their shrine reluctantly at the end of the cup - unless New Zealand win, in which case they will paint it black: "I'm going to paint 'finally' across the fence." The missus will be delighted.
- Tania Shadwell
When Ian Broderson's wife told him to paint the fence before the Rugby World Cup started, she got what she wished for - and then some.
A flurry of flag hunting and a day's worth of painting later, Mr Broderson and his son Shane spruced up their house and fence to the delight of passing rugby fans in Wanganui.
"It came about when my wife kept whingeing about me not painting the fence," said Mr Broderson, a meat boner. They got all the flags they could from local shops and when some, like Namibia's, proved difficult to get their hands on, they painted the rest.
Although Rosalie Broderson herself was not available for comment, her husband was adamant she loved it.
The Brodersons' front lawn bore a special greeting for the American team staying in Wanganui, and the family were delighted when locals at the airport tipped off the players, who drove by to cheer from the tour bus.
Mr Broderson said they would dismantle their shrine reluctantly at the end of the cup - unless New Zealand win, in which case they will paint it black: "I'm going to paint 'finally' across the fence." The missus will be delighted.
- Tania Shadwell
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First the All Blacks and then the Warriors, I think they heard me cheering all over China, wonderful night and had a call from my son, Paul in Italy, who was watching and yelling as well.
Alina had her birthday and took us all for a meal, I was sorely outnumbered being the only male but I put up with it and enjoyed the meal too.
I am watching Italy play Russia in my hometown of Nelson in New Zealand and sitting here in China drinking German beer
I know that many Kiwi's move to Australia and seem to speak fluent Australian after a few weeks, maybe Chinese is not so easy or I am not that gifted to become muli-lingual.
I arrived in China just before midnight 6 years ago and had my first class the next day. I had 300 Yuan and a job to go to and Mei to look after me. All worked out fine.
Coincidentally, my first boss, a friend of Mei's from childhood days, rang and asked Mei and I out for dinner last night which just happened to be the anniversary of my arrival. She picked us up and took us to this upmarket Chinese restaurant which looked very nice but decided that I should have a western style meal so off we go to a hotel and have a steak, very good though.
I am enjoying the rugby very much and feel very lucky to be able to watch all the games free through Sky TV in Italy, they are streamed on the internet, not always in English but the video quality is excellent, I can listen to NZ's Radio Sport for commentary if I want to.
It has turned cool very quickly, down to 2c last night but mid 20's during the day, the ice age is approaching.
Have a good week everybody.
How things happen!! Supplied by Andrew
I am watching the world cup on Sky TV from Italy complete with Italian commentary, that does not bother me to much as the pictures are perfect.
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Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival decorations in BeijingOfficial name Zhōngqiū Jié (中秋節, 中秋节) Also called Moon Festival
Mooncake Festival
Lantern Festival
Peh Goeh Cheh (八月節)Observed by Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Korean Type Cultural, Religious Significance Celebrates the end of the fall harvest Date 15th day of the 8th lunar month 2011 date September 12 2012 date September 30 Observances consumption of mooncakes, worship of deities (Chang'e) Related to Tết Trung Thu
Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncakes, often eaten during the festival Chinese name Traditional Chinese 中秋節 Simplified Chinese 中秋节
[show]Transcriptions Hakka - Romanization Chung ciu tset Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngqiūjié - Wade–Giles Chung ch'iu chieh Min - Hokkien POJ Tiong-chhiu-chiat Cantonese - Jyutping Zung1 cau1 zit3 - Yale Romanization Jung1 chyou1 jye2 Min name Chinese 八月節
[show]Transcriptions Min - Hokkien POJ Peh-go̍eh-cheh - Min-dong BUC Báik-nguŏk-cáik Vietnamese name Quốc ngữ Tết Trung Thu Chữ nôm 節中秋
Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in Victoria Park, Hong Kong
Mid-Autumn Festival at the Botanical Garden, MontrealThe Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節), also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese people. Dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty, it was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty.[1] In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties. The Chinese festival is very traditional and a great way to celebrate.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Spring Festival and Winter Solstice, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the fall harvesting season on this date. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomelos under the moon together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:
- Carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns
- Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang'e
- Erect the Mid-Autumn Festival.(树中秋,竖中秋,in China,树 and 竖 are homophones)It is not about planting trees but hanging lanterns on the bamboo pole and putting them on a high point, such as roofs, trees, terraces, etc. It is a custom in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, etc.
- Collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members
- Fire Dragon Dances
Shops selling mooncakes before the festival often display pictures of Chang'e floating to the moon.
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[hide][edit] Stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival
[edit] Houyi and Chang'e
Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival is strongly associated with the legend of Houyi and Chang'e, the Moon Goddess of Immortality. Tradition places these two figures from Chinese mythology at around 2200 BCE, during the reign of the legendary Emperor Yao, shortly after that of Huangdi. Unlike many lunar deities in other cultures who personify the moon, Chang'e simply lives on the moon but is not the moon herself.
There are many variants and adaptations of the legend of Chang'e that frequently contradict each other. However, most versions of the legend involve some variation of the following elements: Houyi, the Archer, an emperor, either benevolent or malevolent, and an elixir of life.
One version of the legend states that Houyi was an immortal and Chang'e was a beautiful young girl, working in the palace of the Jade Emperor (the Emperor of Heaven, 玉帝 pinyin:Yùdì) as an attendant to the Queen Mother of the West (the Jade Emperor's wife). Houyi aroused the jealousy of the other immortals, who then slandered him before the Jade Emperor. Houyi and his wife, Chang'e, were subsequently banished from heaven. They were forced to live on Earth. Houyi had to hunt to survive and became a skilled and famous archer.
At that time, there were ten suns, in the form of three-legged birds, residing in a mulberry tree in the eastern sea. Each day one of the sun birds would have to travel around the world on a carriage, driven by Xihe, the 'mother' of the suns. One day, all ten of the suns circled together, causing the Earth to burn. Emperor Yao, the Emperor of China, commanded Houyi to use his archery skill to shoot down all but one of the suns. Upon completion of his task, the Emperor rewarded Houyi with a pill that granted eternal life. Emperor Yao advised Houyi not to swallow the pill immediately but instead to prepare himself by praying and fasting for a year before taking it.[2] Houyi took the pill home and hid it under a rafter. One day, Houyi was summoned away again by Emperor Yao. During her husband's absence, Chang'e, noticed a white beam of light beckoning from the rafters, and discovered the pill. Chang'e swallowed it and immediately found that she could fly. Houyi returned home, realizing what had happened he began to reprimand his wife. Chang'e escaped by flying out the window into the sky.[2]
Houyi pursued her halfway across the heavens but was forced to return to Earth because of strong winds. Chang'e reached the moon, where she coughed up part of the pill.[2] Chang'e commanded the hare that lived on the moon to make another pill. Chang'e would then be able to return to Earth and her husband.[citation needed]
The legend states that the hare is still pounding herbs, trying to make the pill. Houyi built himself a palace in the sun, representing "Yang" (the male principle), in contrast to Chang'e's home on the moon which represents "Yin" (the female principle). Once a year, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Houyi visits his wife. That is the reason why the moon is very full and beautiful on that night.[2]
This description appears in written form in two Western Han dynasty (206 BC-24 AD) collections; Shan Hai Jing, the Classic of the Mountains and Seas and Huainanzi, a philosophical classic.[3]
Another version of the legend, similar to the one above, differs in saying that Chang'e swallowed the pill of immortality because Peng, one of Houyi's many apprentice archers, tried to force her to give the pill to him. Knowing that she could not fight off Peng, Chang'e had no choice but to swallow the pill herself.[citation needed]
Other versions say that Houyi and Chang'e were still immortals living in heaven at the time that Houyi killed nine of the suns. The sun birds were the sons of the Jade Emperor, who punished Houyi and Chang'e by forcing them to live on Earth as mortals. Seeing that Chang'e felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality, Houyi decided to find the pill that would restore it. At the end of his quest, he met the Queen Mother of the West, who agreed to give him the pill, but warned him that each person would only need half a pill to regain immortality. Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Chang'e not to open the case, and then left home for a while. Like Pandora in Greek mythology, Chang'e became curious. She opened up the case and found the pill, just as Houyi was returning home. Nervous that Houyi would catch her, discovering the contents of the case, she accidentally swallowed the entire pill, and started to float into the sky because of the overdose.
Some versions of the legend do not refer to Houyi or Chang'e as having previously been immortals and initially present them as mortals instead.[citation needed]
There are also versions of the story in which Houyi was made king as a reward for killing nine of the suns and saving the people. However, King Houyi became a despot who either stole a pill of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West or learned that he could make such a pill by grinding up the body of a different adolescent boy every night for a hundred nights. Chang'e stole the pill and swallowed it herself, either to stop more boys being killed or to prevent her husband's tyrannical rule from lasting forever.[citation needed]
[edit] The Hare or The Jade Rabbit
According to tradition, the Jade Rabbit pounds medicine, together with the lady, Chang'e, for the gods. Others say that the Jade Rabbit is a shape, assumed by Chang'e herself. The dark areas to the top of the full moon may be construed as the figure of a rabbit. The animal's ears point to the upper right, while at the left are two large circular areas, representing its head and body.[4]
[edit] Overthrow of Mongol rule
According to a widespread folk tale (not necessarily supported by historical records), the Mid-Autumn Festival commemorates an uprising in China against the Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty (1280–1368) in the 14th century.[5] As group gatherings were banned, it was impossible to make plans for a rebellion.[5] Noting that the Mongols did not eat mooncakes, Liu Bowen (劉伯溫) of Zhejiang Province, advisor to the Chinese rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, came up with the idea of timing the rebellion to coincide with the Mid-Autumn Festival. He sought permission to distribute thousands of moon cakes to the Chinese residents in the city to bless the longevity of the Mongol emperor. Inside each cake, however, was inserted a piece of paper with the message: "Kill the Mongols on the 15th day of the 8th month" (traditional Chinese: 八月十五殺韃子; simplified Chinese: 八月十五杀鞑子).[5] On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government. What followed was the establishment of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), under Zhu. Henceforth, the Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated with moon cakes on a national level.
[edit] Taiwan version
Due to historical cultural ties with China, legends of the holiday in Taiwan share major feature of the Chinese version.
Since middle of 1980’s, Taiwanese starts the trend of barbecue with friends and family at Mid-Autumn Festival. This trend trace from different statements, some said that it started because of the boost of commercial company, others said that it is because people usually get hungry when they are watching the moon, so barbecue outdoor become widespread among people. However, the take off of Taiwan economy and the influence of western life style was also a reason which makes people change their traditional custom. Mooncakes are typically round but smaller, with less elaborate fillings. More recently, some versions of the cake from Hong Kong seem to be gaining popularity.
[edit] Vietnamese version
The Mid-Autumn festival is named "Tết Trung Thu" in Vietnamese.
The Vietnamese version of the holiday recounts the legend of Cuội, whose wife accidentally urinated on a sacred banyan tree, taking him with it to the Moon. Every year, on the mid-autumn festival, children light lanterns and participate in a procession to show Cuội the way to Earth.[6]
In Vietnam, Mooncakes are typically square rather than round, though round ones do exist. Besides the indigenous tale of the banyan tree, other legends are widely told including the story of the Moon Lady, and the story of the carp who wanted to become a dragon.[6]
One important event before and during Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival are lion dances. The dances are performed by both non-professional children group and trained professional groups. Lion dance groups perform on the streets go to houses asking for permission to perform for them. If accepted by the host, "the lion" will come in and start dancing as a wish of luck and fortune and the host gives back lucky money to show thankfulness.
[edit] Dates
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. In 2010 the Mid-Autumn Festival fell on September 22. It will occur on these days in coming years:[7]
- 2011: September 12
- 2012: September 30
- 2013: September 19
- 2014: September 8
- 2015: September 27
- 2016: September 15
- 2017: October 4
- 2018: September 24
- 2019: September 13
- 2020: October 1
[edit] See also
- Chinese New Year
- Chinese holidays
- List of Harvest Festivals
- Tidal bore of Qiantang River
- Vietnamese holidays
- Vietnamese culture
[edit] References
- ^ Chinese language article about references to the Mid Autumn festival in ancient Chinese text - chinapage.com
- ^ a b c d Chinatown.com.au
- ^ Shanghai me
- ^ Chinatown Online - your guide to all things Chinese
- ^ a b c Examination of the legend against the historical backdrop of mongol dynasty
- ^ a b familyculture.com tettrungthu
- ^ "Chinese Lunar Network" (in Simplified Chinese). http://nongli114.com/index.php/lunarHoliday/2009/21.html.
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