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Holidays
One full moon, the whole family underneath it — even the ones a plane ride away. A song with their names, sung with real vocals, to share at the table or across the miles.
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The date changes from country to country and from year to year — here it is where you are.
| 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | |
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| Singapore | September 25 | September 15 | October 3 |
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the night of reunion. In China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, families gather to cut mooncakes, light lanterns and look at the brightest moon of the year — and those who cannot come home look at the same moon from wherever they are. Su Shi wrote it nine centuries ago: may we be together for a long time, sharing the moon across a thousand miles.
A song carries that wish better than a box of mooncakes in the post. Mention who is at the table and who is missing, what your family eats and argues about, the lantern you carried as a child. The lyrics are written from those details, a gentle melody is composed and real vocals sing it — in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Malay, English or another language. It takes about a minute.
Acoustic, Folk · 2:35
“A gentle acoustic song for the Mid-Autumn Festival, for my sister Mei Ling, who moved to Melbourne this year and can't come home to Kuala Lumpur. Every year we eat lotus mooncakes on our grandparents' balcony and Ah Ma saves the salted egg yolk for her. As kids we carried paper rabbit lanterns around the block. Say we still cut a piece for her, and put “Mei Ling” and “same round moon” in the chorus.”
Everyone's names — Grandma, Ah Ma or Bà Nội, the uncle who always brings durian, the cousin abroad. A roll call in a verse makes the whole table smile.
The mooncake debate: lotus paste or red bean, salted egg yolk or none, snow skin for the kids. Small arguments make warm lyrics.
Your childhood lantern — the paper rabbit, the carp, the star you swung down the street in Vietnam's Tết Trung Thu procession.
Who is far away this year, and where. “The same moon over Melbourne” is a line that gets a family through the night.
Chang'e and the Jade Rabbit, if your family told that story — a soft image for a bedtime-like verse.
The place you gather: the rooftop, the grandparents' balcony, the park with the lantern show.
A wish for the year ahead: health for the grandparents, everyone home next autumn.
Same round moon over Kuala Lumpur and home,
Mei Ling, you're never as far as you've flown,
cut the mooncake in pieces, save one for you —
the lanterns are lit, and the moon's shining through.
This is a gentle festival, so the songs that suit it are calm: acoustic guitar, folk with a soft voice, piano, or a pop ballad with a slow tempo. Ask for traditional colours — guzheng, pipa, dizi or the Vietnamese đàn bầu — if you want the melody to feel like the old festival songs. For the children's lantern walk, a short, bright, playful song with an easy chorus works better; they will sing it all the way round the block.
Names, memories, the mood you want. Skip anything you like.
Lyrics, melody, vocals and cover art — composed around your answers.
Download the MP3, share the link, or play it right there.
Yes. Songs are sung in more than 40 languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Malay, and the song's language can differ from the one you write the description in.
Yes. If your family tells the legend of Chang'e and the Jade Rabbit, mention it in the description and it can become a verse — playful for the children, or wistful for someone far away.
Share the song's link — it plays in any browser — or send a gift page they unwrap on their phone. Timed for the evening where they live, it arrives as they look up at the same moon.
Yes. Turn the song into a lyric video with its cover, or with your own family photos as a slideshow on a subscription, ready for the group chat or stories.
Your first song is free when you sign up, no card needed. Later songs use credits from a subscription or a one-off pack.
Tell it who it’s for and what happened. We’ll handle the rest.