Mid-Autumn Festival DIY Mooncake by Soft Clay

Moon Festival Moon Cake



The Mid-Autumn Festival (Simplified Chinese: 中秋节Traditional Chinese: 中秋節Vietnamese: Tết Trung Thu; Korean: 추석Japanese: 月見), also known as Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated by Chinese people and the Sinosphere. It is the second most important Chinese holiday after Chinese New Year with a history dating back 3,000 years when China's emperors worshipped the moon for bountiful harvests.[2] The celebration is called Chuseok (autumn eve) in Korea and Tsukimi (moon-viewing) in Japan.

Mooncakes, a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed paste, are traditionally eaten during the festival.


How to make the Mooncakes?

Material Used:

-Light air dry clay

-Clay tool

-Glue


If you never used the light air dry clay, please read this introduction soft clay.

First, take out the orange clay to roll the circle and use the clay tool to shape the mooncake. Pinch the square and using the clay tool to shape, cut the mooncake, and using grey color or brown color to make the invagination.

The same handmade action can make more moon cake and different types of mooncakes. 


Pinch the Circle

Using clay tool to shape edge

The different type of mooncake

Pinch the black spot to make sesame

Make the square and using the tool to make the texture


Using brown color to make the invagination


The type of mooncake is complete


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  1. The Moon Cake Festival is a popular Chinese festival that celebrates the harvest moon. It is usually held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Moon cakes are round or square pastries filled with lotus seed paste, bean paste, or fruit.

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