Mid-Autumn Day is a traditional festival in China. Almost everyone likes to eat mooncakes on that day. Most families have a dinner together to celebrate the festival. A saying goes, ” The moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest ” . Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family reunion. How happy it is to enjoy the moon cakes while watching the full moon with your family members. 23:37:26 “Zhong Qiu Jie ” probably began as a harvest festival. The festival was later given a mythological flavour with legends of Chang-E，the beautiful lady in the moon. According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day , all 10 suns appeared together , scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi ,succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule but his wife Chang-E drank it. Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Post time: Sep-14-2022