🥮Autumn Moon Festival Banquet🥮

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Dine on a delicious 8 course Chinese dinner along with moon cakes, prizes, auction & raffle items and more! Banquet is held at Don Mee Seafood Restaurant in Victoria’s Historic Chinatown. 

All proceeds from this ‘Autumn Moon Festival Banquet’ will go to benefit our nationally treasured Tam Kung Temple right here in Victoria, it is the oldest Chinese temple in Canada!

Tickets are available for only $88 per person. Please fill in this form and e-transfer payment to secure your seat. E-transfer to: ChinatownLionessPayments@gmail.com

The Tam Kung Temple, the oldest Chinese Temple in Canada, was built in 1912, however this site has housed a Chinese Temple since 1876 until the original building was destroyed in a fire in 1911. It was started by people, for people and over the years continues to provide a Sanctuary, a place to go and a place to belong.

The Temple now needs extensive repairs such as repairing the leaking roof and windows, parts of the floor that are held together by masking tape and seismic upgrading estimated at $600,000. Victoria City Heritage Trust is providing $200,000 and the Society is looking to raise $400,000.

The legend of Autumn Moon Festival: Hon Yi, a famous archer, shot down 9 suns that were burning the earth, thus saving everyone.  He was rewarded with an elixir of immortality but he wanted to stay on Earth with his wife Chang’e (pronounced Chang-E) more so he asked her to keep it safe for him. However, when a thief tried to steal the elixir from her, she drank it instead of the thief and she floated higher and higher until she stopped on the moon.  

There she resides with the white jade rabbit who had sacrificed his life for the Emperor of Heaven.  Heartbroken, Hon Yi set out her favorite fruits and mooncakes to show his love as he waited to be reunited with her.  The 15th day of the 8th lunar month is the Autumn Moon Festival. Come celebrate with us!