Mooncake Gifting and Reconnecting with the Warm Traditions of the Mid-Autumn Festival

The modern Mid-Autumn Festival has, to some observers, become yet another example of our world’s rampant materialism, in which the act of gifting an expensive box – with all its inherent social pressures and expectations – begins to overshadow any sincere sentiments prompting the gift itself and render its conspicuously overwrapped, less-often-consumed contents nearly irrelevant, leaving us all to wonder how we ended up so far removed from our ancestors’ original Mid-Autumn traditions....