Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival
This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival fell on Monday, October 6, marking a day of reunion, gratitude and moonlit celebration. The festival, traditionally celebrated across East and Southeast Asia-especially in China-has long been a cherished part of Westover's cultural calendar.
Continuing the tradition, students organized a series of events to honor Asian heritage and share the spirit of the holiday with the community.
To bring the festival on campus, the Asian Students in America (ASIA) Affinity Group collaborated with the Bakery Club to host a mooncake-making session in the student kitchen on the afternoon of October 5. Bakery Club members Xiaoyan T. ’26 and Tina D. ’26 led the preparation, making Oreo-flavored mooncakes, salted-egg-yolk and mooncake crusts a day in advance. During the event, students came and experienced wrapping mooncake fillings in dough. After half an hour of baking, the warm mooncakes emerged golden and fragrant, and within ten minutes, three full trays of salted-egg-yolk and Oreo-flavored mooncakes had been shared among students, marking a great success of the event.
Finally, on the day of the festival, the International Proctor Team kept the celebration going. Despite it being a busy Monday, they brought boxes of assorted mooncakes to share after the International Student Workshop and distributed them to all boarders after study hall. As we have a vibrant community of Asian and international students on campus, we hope this series of events offers them a chance to celebrate their traditions and feel connected, even while far from home. "We see you, we celebrate you!" Wishing everyone who marked the occasion a joyful Mid-Autumn Festival––and here's to a wonderful rest of 2025!
Sissi is a Managing Editor for Westover's student-run newspaper The Wick. Learn more about The Wick and read a selection from the fall 2025 issue.
Sissi is a Managing Editor for Westover's student-run newspaper The Wick. Learn more about The Wick and read a selection from the fall 2025 issue.
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