{"id":6351,"date":"2014-09-12T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:24:08","slug":"chinese-mid-autumn-moon-festival-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/chinese-mid-autumn-moon-festival-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival Celebration by Anna Faiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bliog-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6352\" alt=\"bliog 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bliog-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>On September 8, 2014, a group of students from Clearwater and Gibbs campuses with their advisors went to the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration.\u00a0 The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is celebrated by the Chinese on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar.\u00a0 Everyone was invited to experience cultural performances and taste moon cakes. The event was held in the MSC Ballroom. The event was sponsored by the USF Chinese Students and Scholars Association, and co-sponsors include Chinese Culture and Language Club, Confucius Institute, and INTO USF.\u00a0 Here are some quotes from students who experienced the Chinese Celebration:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Katherine Sun:<\/b> \u201cThe moon cakes makes me reminisce my childhood as when we were celebrating Chinese New Year and Chinese festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Domenica Flores:<\/b> \u201cI love the Chinese Festival! I learn a new culture and made new friends :)\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Ronda Bailey:<\/b> \u201cThe mid-autumn moon festival was so much fun. I enjoyed experiencing a new culture. Now I want to learn mandarin so I can understand more next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Jose Villada:<\/b> \u201dIt really shows you the talents from individuals and what they possess. New culture helps you capture new details from people of that culture. It is something I will defiantly want to experience again and learn more from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Matthew Azzolina:<\/b> \u201cThe festival was a thought-provoking and moving experience. The musical performance with the flutes was awe inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Sane Haidara:<\/b> \u201cThis is my third time at the moon festival, and each time I learn something extraordinarily interesting about the Chinese culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 8, 2014, a group of students from Clearwater and Gibbs campuses with their advisors went to the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration.\u00a0 The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is celebrated by the Chinese on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar.\u00a0 Everyone was invited to experience cultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/chinese-mid-autumn-moon-festival-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival Celebration by Anna Faiola<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,40,48],"tags":[49],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-glocal","category-news","category-student-resources","tag-student-resources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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