International Students have Moon Festival fun at NCKU - CNA
Playing a game called ”Gambling for Cakes（博狀元餅）” which is traditional fun for Chinese on the day of Moon Festival and sharing the treat of moon cakes and pomelos are the features of this year’s celebration held at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) on September 27th with over 130 international students altogether to enjoy the fun.
Chinese Language Center (CLC) at NCKU has prepared 200 moon cakes and 80 pomelos for the international students, according to Professor Rong-Fu Wu, CLC director, adding that this event is one of the most important holidays in Taiwan to celebrate with family and friends.
The Chinese Moon Festival dates back more than 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty and the legend associated with the festival tells the story of a beautiful woman named Chang-O who flies to the moon, said Wu.
The celebration on the Mid-Autumn Day prevails to almost every household in Taiwan, according to Wu who wish the international students in NCKU may grasp the meaning of the festival in Chinese culture and have a real treat at this special occasion.
Nans Bujan from France, a postdoctoral researcher at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory at NCKU, has just arrive the school few days ago and said that he had fun in playing the game and won a moon cake. He seemingly got the festival atmosphere around him and happy about his arrival and confident in his stay in NCKU.
“Good gambling,” said Corinne Coster, a French student who obviously had great fun in the activity expressed her admiration toward Chinese culture by saying that it is interesting to gamble with dices and also intriguing to see how Chinese people are still so into the moon and appreciate the beauty of the nature.
Marieke from Belgium said, “It’s so much fun today to celebrate the Moon Festival with my classmates and friends around here.” Marieke is familiar with the Moon Festival when she learns Chinese in Belgium but this is the first time she experiences the authentic fun during the festival.
Jonathan Knowles is a British who enjoys his life in Tainan a lot sharing his traveling experience around Taiwan, “the people in Taiwan are so nice, the weather is so pleasant and the food is so great that I’m thinking about staying here for a longer time.”
“It is fun to gamble for moon cakes and luckily I got one,” according to Knowles adding that he was invited by his friend over to his place having a BBQ party later.
The game is traditionally played with 6 dices but the rule has changed a bit here by playing with 4 dices. The students in groups compete for getting the moon cakes in tossing the larger-sized dices on the ground and the result will be decided by counting the red points shown by the upsides of the dices according to the rules of the game, according to the center.
Chinese Language Center (CLC) at NCKU has prepared 200 moon cakes and 80 pomelos for the international students, according to Professor Rong-Fu Wu, CLC director, adding that this event is one of the most important holidays in Taiwan to celebrate with family and friends.
The Chinese Moon Festival dates back more than 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty and the legend associated with the festival tells the story of a beautiful woman named Chang-O who flies to the moon, said Wu.
The celebration on the Mid-Autumn Day prevails to almost every household in Taiwan, according to Wu who wish the international students in NCKU may grasp the meaning of the festival in Chinese culture and have a real treat at this special occasion.
Nans Bujan from France, a postdoctoral researcher at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory at NCKU, has just arrive the school few days ago and said that he had fun in playing the game and won a moon cake. He seemingly got the festival atmosphere around him and happy about his arrival and confident in his stay in NCKU.
“Good gambling,” said Corinne Coster, a French student who obviously had great fun in the activity expressed her admiration toward Chinese culture by saying that it is interesting to gamble with dices and also intriguing to see how Chinese people are still so into the moon and appreciate the beauty of the nature.
Marieke from Belgium said, “It’s so much fun today to celebrate the Moon Festival with my classmates and friends around here.” Marieke is familiar with the Moon Festival when she learns Chinese in Belgium but this is the first time she experiences the authentic fun during the festival.
Jonathan Knowles is a British who enjoys his life in Tainan a lot sharing his traveling experience around Taiwan, “the people in Taiwan are so nice, the weather is so pleasant and the food is so great that I’m thinking about staying here for a longer time.”
“It is fun to gamble for moon cakes and luckily I got one,” according to Knowles adding that he was invited by his friend over to his place having a BBQ party later.
The game is traditionally played with 6 dices but the rule has changed a bit here by playing with 4 dices. The students in groups compete for getting the moon cakes in tossing the larger-sized dices on the ground and the result will be decided by counting the red points shown by the upsides of the dices according to the rules of the game, according to the center.
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