{"id":1935,"date":"2025-10-03T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:38:09","slug":"2025-mid-autumn-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/03\/2025-mid-autumn-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Greetings for Mid-Autumn 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-783a44fb4a5e465c25d2c75ba89680d9\" style=\"color:#c88800\"><strong>Curtin University Alumni Hong Kong Chapter<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>wis<\/strong><strong>hes our alumni and friends <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #c00000;\">a happy<\/span> <span style=\"color: #c00000;\">Mid \u2013 Autumn Festival<br><\/span><\/strong><strong>filled with abundant blessings<br><\/strong><span style=\"color: #c00000;\"><strong>\u4e2d<\/strong> <strong>\u79cb<\/strong> <strong>\u7bc0<br><\/strong><\/span>6 October 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2><span style=\"color: #c00000;\"><strong>The Mid-Autumn Festival <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #002060;\"><strong>is on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> of the eighth lunar month.\u00a0 Among the Chinese, eating delicious moon cakes and to give them as gifts, carrying beautiful lanterns and full moon viewing are the traditional celebrations.\u00a0 This festival symbolizes family reunion and good harvests. <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-3.png?resize=640%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-3.png?w=689&amp;ssl=1 689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C118&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><span style=\"color: #002060;\"><strong>The most popular myth is the <\/strong><span style=\"color: #c00000;\"><strong>Goddess of Moon<\/strong><\/span><strong>, <\/strong><\/span><strong>Chang-E <\/strong><span style=\"color: #002060;\"><strong>whose sacrifice of pounding the elixir of life and ascended to the moon<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>to prevent it from falling into the hands of her husband Hou Yi, a villain.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7.png?resize=640%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7.png?w=695&amp;ssl=1 695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7.png?resize=300%2C88&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #002060;\">Osmanthus flowers that symbolize purity and innocence usually bloom once a year during the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #c00000;\">Mid-Autumn Festival<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #002060;\"><strong>Yours Sincerely, <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/about-us-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #c88800;\"><strong>Curtin University Alumni Association, the registered society in Hong Kong<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University Alumni Hong Kong Chapter wishes our alumni and friends a happy Mid \u2013 Autumn Festivalfilled with abundant blessings\u4e2d \u79cb \u7bc06 October 2025 The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th of the eighth lunar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 13:08:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}