Mid-Autumn Festival -- Nikki

Mid-autumn Festival is a popular and important lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people.

The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. There are some traditions in this holiday. For example, people would have a big dinner with there families. After dinner, they often enjoy the full moon, which is round and bright. The other tradition of mid-autumn festival is eating moon cake. Moon cake is the essential of that day, which means reunion.

Every year lunar calendar in August 15 is Mid-autumn Festival, at this time the people always eat the moon cake, to enjoy looking at the moon, the family member reunite, because that day moon is roundest.

There are also many wonderful stories about mid-autumn festival. For instance, do you often watch the moon in the evening? What does it look like?

According to Chinese old myth, it looks like a beautiful goddess under a big tree in the moon. She was Chang e, the wife of Hou Yi. Hou Yi was a hero who saved people through shooting the extra eight Suns by arrows. Hence, the emperor in the sky rewarded him a magic medicine. If one took the medicine, he would fly up into the sky and turn into a fairy. But one day, one of Hou Yi's students suddenly shot him by an arrow. Then, he robbed into Hou Yi's home and wanted to grab the medicine. Urgently, Chang e had to take it. Later, she became the goddess of moon and lived in the moon palace.

That is the myth of Chang e represents that Mid-autumn Festival.