Comments on: Mooncake thumb drives! http://talesacrossthesea.net/singblog/435/mooncake-thumb-drives/ Life really close to the Equator Fri, 15 Oct 2021 01:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Mei http://talesacrossthesea.net/singblog/435/mooncake-thumb-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:35:39 +0000 http://talesacrossthesea.net/singblog/?p=435#comment-56 Starting from the left-most character, going toward lower right, then back to the top character and finally to the right-most character, it reads: Flower, Good, Moon, Circle. What it means is something like many perfectly formed flowers blooming on a beautiful evening with full moon. This is a traditional phrase for an especially joyful occasion such as the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, which is always on the 15th day of the eighth month on Chinese Lunar Calendar. For what is typical of human nature, people sometimes also add: ????? which means a good harvest year and a long long life.

-Daxin

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