The Moon Festival
Today is a holiday called "The Moon Festival",中秋節,(also called the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn festival)to Chinese people.
What is the Moon festival?
Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "中秋節(zhong qiu jie)".
Children are told the story of the moon fairy(嫦娥) living in a crystal palace, who comes out to dance on the moon's shadowed surface. The legend surrounding the "lady living in the moon" dates back to ancient times, to a day when ten suns appeared at once in the sky. The Emperor ordered a famous archer to shoot down the nine extra suns. Once the task was accomplished, Goddess of Western Heaven rewarded the archer with a pill that would make him immortal. However, his wife found the pill, took it, and was banished to the moon as a result.
On The Monn Festival, family will come together to have a dinner, after it will eat a special dessert-"Moon Cake(月餅)" and to admire the glorious full moon.
a variety of Moon Cakes:
What is the Moon festival?
Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "中秋節(zhong qiu jie)".
Children are told the story of the moon fairy(嫦娥) living in a crystal palace, who comes out to dance on the moon's shadowed surface. The legend surrounding the "lady living in the moon" dates back to ancient times, to a day when ten suns appeared at once in the sky. The Emperor ordered a famous archer to shoot down the nine extra suns. Once the task was accomplished, Goddess of Western Heaven rewarded the archer with a pill that would make him immortal. However, his wife found the pill, took it, and was banished to the moon as a result.
On The Monn Festival, family will come together to have a dinner, after it will eat a special dessert-"Moon Cake(月餅)" and to admire the glorious full moon.
a variety of Moon Cakes: