Moon Festival
Mark your calendar!
Sunday, September 14th
Scooping the Moon
Written By Katherine Metz
This painting depicts the worship of the moon and the Moon Goddess Chang
E. According to Chinese popular religion, she was believed to live in
the moon and was closely associated with the immortals. It is said
that you may see her dancing on the moon during the festival.
According to the annual cosmological cycle, her yin (feminine) force
was most powerful on the night of the full moon, the fifteenth day of
the eighth lunar moon - this year, September 14th. On this day
Chinese families, especially women, worship the moon to receive Chang
E's magical strength. In this beautiful painting, a woman adjusts a
shallow, water-filled basin to better show the perfectly round moon
reflected in it. One cannot help thinking that this is a perfect world.
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