Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Mid-Autumn Festival's a month away

You may want to start looking for mooncakes at the Chinese grocery store, review Mid-Autumn Festival information, decide whether you want to go into your child's school to celebrate, or even start talking to their teachers. September 25th is less than a month away now!

If you want to surprise some friends online, there are Mid-Autumn Festival e-cards. You can set them up now to be delivered on September 25th!

If you want close-ups of the moon, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Arizona State University's collaboration may be just in time. They're setting up the Apollo Image Archive for high-resolution scans of original Apollo flight films. Most of these have not been publicly available in over 30 years.

This is a sample of the high resolution frames the Apollo Image Archive will have. AS15-M-0085 was taken on the Apollo 15 mission in July 1971. Photo courtesy of NASA/Arizona State University. (Thanks to Kathe for the heads-up!)

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

2008 Lunar Festival Dates

Chinese New Year (lunar 1/1) Feb.7, 2008, February 7 - 12, 2008
Lantern Festival (lunar 1/15) Feb. 21, 2008

Tomb Sweeping Day (2/28) Apr. 4
Dragon Festival (lunar 5/5) June 8
Ghost Festival (7/15) August 15

Mid-Autumn Festival (8/15) Sept. 14

Double Ninth Day (lunar 9/9) Oct. 7

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Chinese Food

Characters and pinyin for Chinese Food nouns
http://chinesenotes.com/chinese_food.html

Moon cakes - put on on Autumn Mon & link to that entry from here
http://china.tyfo.com/int/art/festival/middle-autumn/mid-cake.htm

Eating the Chinese Way
http://www.howtoorderchinesefood.com/

Last updated: 7/2007