The Mooncake Festival or The Lantern Festival is a Chinese Mid Autumn Harvesting Festival celebrated for twelve days in the 8th month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar from the 15th day onwards, second in importance only to the Chinese Lunar New Year. During this festival, the Chinese community everywhere celebrates by giving each other mooncakes and lighting up lanterns, both in various shapes and sizes.


Locally; in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore; the Chinese communities there would also put up Chinese Opera shows in their local temples. Most of these operas would be based on the Beijing Opera, which prominently includes traditional Chinese string and percussion instruments, with the acting based on allusions, hand gestures, foot works and body movements.

Which brings us to these two pictures which were taken at the Tapikong Chinese Temple in Bandar Seri Begawan during the local celebration of the Mid Autumn Festival. It was a photographic outing with the Brunei Forever guys and gals, and was not to be missed.

More pictures to come, hopefully. :P Enjoy ! :D