The eighth month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar is considered to be mid-autumn and during the full moon of that month everybody celebrated mid-autumn festival.
In many Western cultures, this is known as the Harvest Moon, but it generally signals the end of summer or beginning of fall.
Mid-Autumn is celebrated with Lanterns and the best place to see these in Singapore used to be Chinese Gardens. They are closed for a major renovation right now and therefore the Lantern Festival was held in Jurong Lake Gardens, which is right next door. I happened to see the lanterns while I was cycling in the neighborhood and so we decided to go for a closer look one evening.
Along one of the alleys, we noticed that the trees had been covered in crochet-covers, some of which were quite interesting.
We started before sunset to see what the lanterns look like in daylight. There is a whole section dedicated to different countries.
Italy is well represented with the Tower of Pisa, in front of a man with Pizza, the roman Coliseum and also the Rialto bridge in Venice with a gondola. The trees did not make it easy to take a decent photo…
Egypt went for their ancient culture
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