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MID-AUTUMN
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HALLOWEEN
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Date: August 15 (Lunar
calendar)
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Date: October 31
(Western calendar)
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Craft:
Making lanterns
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Craft: Carving
pumpkin
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Clothes: New
clothes
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Clothes: Custom
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Contest: Creative
hand made lanterns
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Contest: Creative
hand carving pumpkin
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Inside lanterns:
Candles
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Inside pumpkin:
Candles
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Usages of lanterns:
Shine the streets
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Usages of pumpkins:
Shine drive/walk ways
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Usages of lanterns:
Decorate outside of the house
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Usages of pumpkins:
Decorate outside of the house
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Food: Mooncakes
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Food: Candies
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Celebration location:
Out on the streets
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Celebration location:
Out on the streets
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Who is looking forward to this holiday? Children
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Who is looking forward to this holiday? Children
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East is
East, West is West,
Children
are the best;
Laugh and
play,
The best
of the day.
East has Mid-Autumn night,
Brightest
moon in the shy;
Different
shapes of lanterns,
Children
are in heaven.
With
lanterns across town,
Sing
songs; laugh out loud;
Lanterns
shine so bright,
Guide them
through the night.
West has
Halloween night,
Through
the streets with flash-light;
Different
shapes of pumpkins,
Happy,
scary, or grumping.
Lighting
every drive ways,
"Trick
or Treat", they say;
Collecting
treats in their bags,
Candies
are the snacks.
East is
East, West is West,
Children
are the best;
Mid-Autumn
for East,
Halloween
for West.
In this
world we share,
In this
universe we care;
The
children of today,
And
children of tomorrow.
By Ung Suy Phan 潘翠膺
California, U.S.A. – 9/15/2006
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