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1、Mid-Autumn Festival,Mid-Autumn Festival,A brief introduction of Mid-Autumn Festival:,TheMid-Autumn Festival is a popular lunarharvest festivalcelebrated byChinese.A description of the festival first appeared in a written collection of rituals of theWestern Zhou Dynastyfrom 3,000years ago.The celebra
2、tion became popular during the earlyTang Dynasty.The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in theChinese calendar,which is in September or early October in theGregorian calendar.Our governmentlisted the festival as an intangible cultural heritage in 2006,and it was made aChinese publi
3、c holidayin 2008.,Traditions：,Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays in the Chinese calendar.The holiday symbolizes family reunion in Chinese tradition.The families often get together to eat moon cake,drink tea and have meal to celebrate this festival.There are also Mid-Autumn Fes
4、tival decorations inmany cities,they are very beautiful.,Moon Cake:,Moon cake is aChinese bakery productwhich is indispensible at Mid-autumn festival.It almost become a symbol of the Day.,Moon cakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival.Typical moon cakes
5、 are round or rectangular pastries,measuring about 10cm in diameter and 45cm thick.,A rich thick filling usually made fromred beanorlotus seed pasteis surrounded by a thin(23mm)crust and may containyolksfromsalted duck eggs.Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied byChinese tea.,Today
6、,it is customary for businessmen and families to present them to their clients or relatives as presents to expresstheir friendness and best wishes.,Stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival:HouyiandChang e,Its longtime ago,Houyi was animmortaland Change was a beautiful young girl,working in the palace of t
7、heJade Emperor(theEmperor of Heaven).Houyi aroused the jealousy of the other immortals,who then slandered him before the Jade Emperor.Houyi and his wife,Change,were subsequently banished from heaven.They were forced to live on Earth.,Houyi had to hunt to survive and became a skilled and famous arche
8、r.At that time,there were ten suns.One day,all ten of the suns circled together,causing the Earth to burn.,Upon completion of his task,the Emperor rewarded Houyi with a pill that granted eternal life.,Emperor Yao,the Emperor of China,commanded Houyi to use hisarcheryskill to shoot down all but one o
9、f the suns.,Houyi took the pile home and give it to Change to keep it.Because he wanted both him and his wife Change could have eternal life.,One day,when Houyi was haunting out side,a student of him named Peng tried to force Change to give the pill to him.Knowing that she could not fight off Peng,C
10、hange had no choice but to swallow the pill herself then she flied out the window into the sky.,Missing her husband,she lived in the moon which was the nearest place from the earth.,Thinking of his wife day and night,Hou Yi then had an incense table arranged in the back garden that Chang E loved.,Since then,people often prepared an incense table when the moon was round in the eighth month in theChinese calendar to pray for good fortune and peace to the kind young lady Change.,
