Full Moon, Full Feelings
Chinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes have the shape of a full moon on mid-autumn night. They carry people’s wishes to the families they love and miss. There are many traditional folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang’e is the most touching.
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’erefused 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 and sharing mooncakes with their families.
月满。情浓
数个世纪以来,中国人一直在庆祝中秋节,吃月饼。月饼是中秋之夜满月的形状。它们寄托着人们对他们所爱与思念的家人的祝福。关于这个节日有很多传统的民间故事。然而,大多数人认为
嫦娥的故事是最感人的。
嫦娥是
后羿美丽的妻子。在后羿射下9颗太阳之后,一位女神送给他仙药作为酬谢。无论谁喝了此药便能长生不老,后羿打算和嫦娥一起服用。然而,一个坏人,逢蒙,试图趁后羿不在家之际偷药。嫦娥拒绝把仙药给他,全部吞下了它。她身体变得很轻,飞上月宫。后羿悲痛不已,以至于每晚都对着月亮大声呼喊她的名字。一天夜里,他发现月亮是如此亮而圆,以至于他能看到他的妻子就在那里。他飞快地在花园里摆出她最喜欢的水果和点心。他是多么希望嫦娥能回来呀!
在这之后,人们开始崇拜月亮,与家人分享月饼的习俗。
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