Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the Chinese traditional festivals.But do you know the traditions about this festival?Let me tell you.
Mid-Autumn Festival is a time of enjoying a bright full moon.And this is because of a story.Chang’e was Hou Yi’s beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him a magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang’e. However, a bad man, Feng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not home. Chang’e refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang’e could come back!After this, people started the tradition of admiring the moon.
People also eat mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival.But why people eat mooncakes?Here is the story:The goddess of the moon to the Moon Palace, abnormal missing husband, then Yi would have expected to see his wife. One day, a fairy advice to Hou Yi: in August fifteen the night of the full moon, the flour for the pill, group into a moon shape, on the northwest side of the house, and then the continuous call the name, at midnight,she can go home. Hou Yi did so, and saw coming from the moon's Chang, husband and wife. This flour to make rice dumplings then evolved into all kinds of moon cakes.This is why people eat mooncakes.
Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is in a very short time,but people still celebrate in a big party.I think it is a good time to stay with families.