华港华人协会的第一次中秋节庆祝活动于9月22日成功举办。庆中秋，人团圆，住在华港的华人家庭在这个中华名族的传统节日，齐聚一堂，通过自己制作月饼的方式来共同庆祝这一传统佳节。
The first Mid-Autumn Festival celebration of the Greater Port Washington Chinese American Association was successfully held on September 22nd. Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival brings people together. Chinese families living of Port Washington gathered together to celebrate this traditional festival by making their own mooncakes.
除了自己动手制作月饼，我们的志愿者还准备了儿童手工折纸活动，以及讲述中秋传统故事的环节。
In addition to making mooncakes by yourself, our volunteers also prepared hand-made origami activities for children and a story session for telling Mid-Autumn stories.
哇，可以自己动手制作冰皮月饼哦！每个来参与活动的朋友都亲手制作和品尝自己的月饼。各种颜色，不同馅料，各式形状，多种图案。
Make your own snow skin mooncakes. Almost every friend who came to participate in the activity made their own mooncakes. Various colors, different fillings, various shapes, various patterns.
冰皮月饼的冰皮是混合了糯米粉、粘米粉、澄粉、牛奶、蔗糖、食用油等原材料，经过高温蒸制而成。
The snow skin of mooncakes is made by mixing glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, orange flour, milk, sucrose, vegetable oil and other raw materials, and steaming it at high temperature.
加入食用颜料，冰皮就呈现出不同的色彩。
Adding food coloring makes the snow skin appear in different colors.
将馅料包入冰皮，揉搓成圆球形状，再压入模具，一个冰皮月饼就制作完成。
Wrap the filling into the snow skin, knead it into a ball shape, then place it into the mold, and a snow skin mooncake is completed.
儿童折纸也带给大朋友和小朋友不一样的乐趣，在这里可以制作不同形状的兔子，这难道就是广寒宫里的玉兔吗？
Children’s origami also brings different fun to adults and children. Here you can make rabbits of different shapes. Is this the Jade Rabbit in Guanghan Palace?
讲故事环节带给大家的是后羿射日、嫦娥奔月的精彩传奇，这个故事被人们一代代传颂，流传成为如今中秋节的传统文化。
The story-telling session brought to everyone the wonderful legend of Hou Yi shooting the sun and Chang’e flying to the moon. This story has been passed down from generation to generation and formed the traditional culture of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Volunteers: Vivian, Helen Zhu, Shiny Qin, Kimberly Li, Mary Ng Chan, Teddi Fan, Jessie Zhang, Rong Zhu, Grace Cui, Tina D, Allison Chao, Damien Chao, Melinda Shirley Shi.
