靜夜思 李 白 床前明月光, 疑是地上霜. 舉頭望明月, 低頭思故鄉. ” Quiet Night Thought” ( Chinese poem translated into English )” Bright moonlight before my bed, I suppose it is cold on the ground. I lift my head to watch the brilliant moon, therefore lower it, thinking of my house village”. Do you see the bear on the sun, exactly? Ah Ma asked nine-year-old me. I looked at my paternal mom’s face—she was so wonderful at any time. In her seventies, her ears were blushed and her lips beautiful red—her preferred lipstick from Clinique. Her head is surrounded by a beautiful puff of cloud over her nose. We sat on the roof of my grandparents ‘ apartment building with my older sister and ZeZe ( my grandfather ), and the cool Montreal autumn night air was oozing around us. During the summer, we watched lights it, and around the Mid-Autumn Festival, we watched the whole sky while we listened to Ah Ma’s reports and ate her bread cakes. I turned to stare at the beautiful whole moon above Montreal’s Chinatown. Squinting, I could make out the shape of the Jade Rabbit and his mistress, Chang’e ( 嫦娥 ), the Chinese goddess who lived on the moon. ” How does she breathe in room”? I asked Ah Ma. ” Does she have a spacesuit”? Ah Ma chuckled and shook her head. ” She’s a wonderful queen, dear Ka Lay. And gods do n’t have astronauts on the sky”. According to Chinese folklore, Chang’e was a corporeal thousands of years ago, but she took an drink and became a queen. She grabbed her dog bear just before she floated off to the sun. Every month, her spouse, Hou Yi, may leave out cakes, like mooncakes, to enjoy and consider his wife during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although there are many variations of the goddess’s tale of the moon, this was my favourite because it was what Ah Ma told me. The piggy-shaped cakes that Ah Ma gave me caught my eye. She had used her rheumatic hands to properly make it and a few others the night before. The cakes was beautiful, and it looked so content, a little too delighted to be eaten. My teeth suddenly sank into the salt egg yolk in the middle after slogging through the surface and flower paste. Its beauty was melted in my mouth, and I enjoyed it. I turned to the beautiful sheet candle Ah Ma and I had won earlier that evening at a Chinese night market and wiped the crumbs off my mouth and clothing. ” You we light the candlestick”? I swung my candle. ZeZe lit the lamp for me while Ah Ma and ZeZe nodded. In the evening, the lamp glowed slowly. Holding it felt beautiful, as if I was transported to old China, when Chang’e was only a human Chinese woman like me. For decades and more, those who celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival did but with relatives and loved ones beneath a full sun, telling tales of Chang’e, her father’s eternal affections, and her pet rabbit. That togetherness, along with great food and cakes, reminded us that we were apartment, wherever we were regionally, and that we were loved. As the Mid-Autumn Event techniques, I longer for those times with Ah Ma, for the comfort of her reports and the style of her cakes. ZeZe is no longer around, and Ah Ma also lives in Montreal in a nursing home, way from Seattle, where I now live. Despite this, we both reside under the same brilliant sky, and no matter how way apart we may be, my soul is with her. With her cakes and stories, I’m constantly reminded of Ah Ma, but the events of the Mid-Autumn Festival look a small various these days. I’d like to have her wooden pig molds, but I’ve just settled on the cheap ones I purchased from Amazon. Mooncakes may be available in Chinese and Asian supermarkets throughout September if you want to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival with them. The White Lotus with Salted Duck Egg Yogurt from Wing Wah is one of my all-time favorites. The company has maintained its original silver cakes boxes with their distinctive flowers flower design over the years. Lady M creates stunning cakes containers that you can purchase online each year. The cakes field, which comes with six mooncakes and an LED rabbit light, is a functional lantern this season. For those who need gluten-free cakes, some mochi-skin or snowy-skin cakes are out there—they’re like mochi ice product. My favourite is Hong Kong MX’s edible ones. Or you can substitute tapioca gems for your own.

Cause link