Once more...
Oct. 4th, 2017 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaIt's Mid-Autumn Festival today! with masks and lanterns and lion-dances and autumn rains. Luckily the rain didn't come in time to wash out the neighbourhood children's party last Sunday night. It was very pleasant, with many cellophane-and-tinsel stars, and little children singing bravely and endearingly and off-key one or two at a time.
We bought a wonderful lantern - also featuring cellophane, but with an inner circle of stiff clear plastic-or-similar, with black outline figures drawn on, and bamboo vanes above, such that warm air rising from a candle would turn the vanes to make a moving show of the figures. That's the theory; in practice, the struggle to make it work will resume tonight.
I'd like to see it, too - it's figures from a well-know folk-motif here called the Mouse's Wedding. I know there's quite a few folk-stories/songs which go by this name - in this one, a large part of the point is how to have a celebration in the mouse community without arousing hostilities from the cat - tricky, but the mice triumph! :)
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Date: 2017-10-04 05:47 am (UTC)I'm glad to hear from you!
with masks and lanterns and lion-dances and autumn rains.
That sounds lovely, and the children's party as well. Post pictures if you get the shadowplay lantern to work?
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Date: 2017-10-04 05:48 am (UTC)And I will, if I can!
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Date: 2017-10-04 12:10 pm (UTC)The children sound very sweet as well--happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
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Date: 2017-10-09 06:27 am (UTC)Thank you! :)