Full Moon Party

When a child is born in Taiwan, the tradition demands a Full Moon Celebration (滿月 - mǎn yuè) when the child is one month old. On this occasion, the child is presented to friends and family of the parents and receives his/her Chinese name. The name is chosen in a complicated way by investigating the star constellations, the number of strokes of the characters...
As we think this to be a nice tradition, we also held a Full Month Celebration for our Anna on the 9th of January. We invited our friends and colleagues and served cakes (provided by a local French patissier Mr Bruno) and tea according to the tradition (- for a boy's Full Moon party, sticky rice with chicken legs are served). The mother of one of our friends, Yu-Shiu, even prepared a traditional sesame oil chicken soup with lots of ginger for us!

Anna was cordially received by our friends and was passed from one arm to another, which she obviously enjoyed. (Luckily she is not shy with strangers yet!)

And Anna also got a Chinese name! 安娜 (An Na)

Anna received many gifts. We loved especially the traditional gift of gold jewellery, which was given to us by our Taiwanese friends!


And Anna, all being a girl, soon discovered her precious pieces of jewellery and had to try them on...