Music appreciation: Colourful clouds chasing the moon (樂曲介紹: 彩雲追月)

Sharon's Chinese Music
4 min readMay 3, 2021

The mid-autumn festival is on 24th September 2018 which is 15th August in the lunar calendar. In the past few weeks, many Chinese are buying mooncakes to prepare for the celebration of the festival. Usually Chinese families bring mooncakes, taros and fruits and gather in the parks under the full moon at night during the mid-autumn festival. Many remember the fairy tale of the Phoebe flying to the moon palace and living there forever. The music “Colourful clouds chasing the moon” describes their imagination of the beautiful scene of moon…

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Sharon's Chinese Music

A British Hongkonger introducing Chinese Culture with Music & Food in the Medium blog: https://chiculture.medium.com and website: https://www.chiculture.co.uk