{"id":5926,"date":"2018-09-25T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2018-09-25T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:04:11","slug":"mid-autumn-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/mid-autumn-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid Autumn Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!<a href=\"http:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mid-Autumn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5927 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mid-Autumn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mid-Autumn.png 570w, https:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mid-Autumn-150x117.png 150w, https:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mid-Autumn-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is Mid-Autumn Festival in China.\u00a0\u00a0 It is one of four key festivals for Chinese.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It has been celebrated for 2,000 years and falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is a celebration of the fall harvest and is marked by stunning full moons and the tradition of gifting and eating \u201cmoon cakes\u201d, which are sort of the Chinese equivalent to a fruit cake.\u00a0\u00a0 But instead of dried fruit, they often have an egg yolk in their center!<\/p>\n<h2>Where is it celebrated?<\/h2>\n<p>Major celebrations take place in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Many in the East Asian diaspora also observe the holiday, with families in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere gathering to mark the autumn thanksgiving festival.<\/p>\n<p>In Vietnam, where the holiday is known as Trung Thu, children play games, don masks and march in nighttime lantern parades.\u00a0 Unfortunately, several reports of fires and injuries are reported every year during the festival mainly from <a href=\"http:\/\/dominatorfireworks.com\">sky lanterns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the fireworks world, Mid-Autumn Festival marks the earnest start of the USA production season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The factories are just now opening after a long summer shut-down.\u00a0\u00a0 The challenge is that European orders must finish by October in order to arrive in time for their Jan 1 selling date.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, China domestic production is beginning as well for February\u00a0 sales.\u00a0\u00a0 So USA orders are competing with European and Chinese production.\u00a0\u00a0 I will begin sending out the weekly status updates on production soon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We will introduce a new stock order form that updates with live quantities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Look for the new form soon.<\/p>\n<p>Dominator just returned from the NFA where we had a successful expo.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you to everyone that stopped by the booth or enjoyed a meal with us.\u00a0\u00a0 It was great seeing all of you again.<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p>Matt Palaszynski<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 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