Mid-Autumn Festival
Author: Leeann
From: San Deigo, USA
Age: 7
Date: 25th Oct 2004, 10:50 AM
Rating: 5
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Title: Mid-Autumn Festival
Today is Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. When I came back home from school this afternoon, I saw my mom had cooked a full table delicious and healthy food.
“Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!” My mom said when she saw me.
“Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!” I replied.
Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunions. On this night, families will go together to eat moon cakes in the cool night air and praying for a safe year.
“Are we going to call grandma and grandpa? They must miss us tonight.” I asked.
After dinner, I called my grandparents who are living in China. They were very excited when they got our phone. Then my mom told us the following famous Chinese legend while we were eating the sweet moon cakes.
Long, long time ago, the sky was originally lit by ten suns, whose combined heat scorched the earth and crops so that the people had nothing to eat. To save the world from imminent starvation China's most famous archer, Hou Yi, shot down nine of the suns with his bow and then rid the land of poisonous snakes and beasts so people could live in peace and happiness.
Unfortunately for Hou Yi, these ten suns turned out to be the sons of the Jade Emperor, who was so angered by the loss of his sons, that he banished the archer together with his wife, Chang O, and children from the face of the earth. When the Western Goddess discovered what had happened, she took pity on Hou Yi, giving him an elixir of life. But Chang O greedily swallowed the potion by herself and she became lighter and lighter and floated up into the sky. Fearing that the deities in heaven would laugh at her, she took refuge on the moon, building there a palace known as the 'Cold Palace,' where she lives to this very day as the Lady of the Moon. Since it is believed that Chang O floated to the moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, people offer annual prayer and sacrifices to the moon on that day to commemorate the event.
It is said that Chang O transforms herself into brilliant moonlight and descends to earth to offer good fortune. Thus, couples to swear their mutual love under the full moon and separated lovers to pray to the for reunion under the full moon.
A Storyteller Topic - Families
Everybody's family is different! What kind of family do you come from? Does your family do things together? Tell us what is special about your family.
Read current Family stories
Read past Family stories
Write a story about your Family
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