The Mid-Autumn Festival —”Mooncake Gambling”
Sep 15, 2021The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar,For centuries, the Mid-Autumn Festival has encouraged family reunions, big feasts and enjoyment of a beautiful full moon.
One week before the Mid-Autumn festival,Kseng held cultural "Moocake Gambling". Gambling? Right, but it is definitely legal.About the”mooncake gambling”, the stakes among the locals are mooncakes - and that is how this unique celebrating activity has got its Chinese name "Bo Bing." It is played only around the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The gambling game has six ranks of awards, which are named as the winners in ancient imperial examinations, and has 63 different sized mooncakes as prizes.
From the lowest to the highest, the titles of six ranks are Xiucai (the one who passed the examination at the county level), Juren (a successful candidate at the provincial level), Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examination), Tanhua, Bangyan and Zhuangyuan (respectively the number three to number one winners in the imperial examination at the presence of the emperor).
The month-long grand festival attracted thousands of participants from Fujian, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao as well as people from some Southeast Asian countries.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, in Xiamen, a coastal city of East China's Fujian Province,you will hear the pleasant silvery sound of the dice rolling. Cheers of winning or loss are everywhere.
Kseng held "Mooncake gambling" activities and delicious dishes to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the restaurant. In the laughter, everyone returned with a full load!