Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important festival in China. It falls on the15th day in August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help clean the house clean and beautiful. Lantern will be hung in front of the house.

There will be a big family dinner in the evening. People who work far from home will try to come back to join the trade union. After dinner, people will light lanterns, which are usually red and round. Children will happily play with their own toy lanterns.

At night, the moon is usually round and bright. People can enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes, which are the special food of this festival. They can look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there is a dragon in the sky. The dragon wants to swallow the moon. Protect and scare away dragons.

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Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important festival in China, which falls on August 15th. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family helped clean the house, decorated it beautifully and hung lanterns in front of it.

There will be a good meal in the evening, and people who work away from home will come back for reunion. After dinner, people light lanterns, usually red round lanterns. Children will play with their toy lanterns happily.

At night, the moon is round and big. People enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes, a special food of Mid-Autumn Festival. People look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there is a dragon in the sky, trying to swallow the moon. In order to protect the moon, the children had to make a loud noise to scare the dragon away.

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Moon cakes and Mid-Autumn Festival

One of the most important festivals in China is the Mid-Autumn Festival. China's ancestors believed that July, August and September of the lunar calendar belonged to autumn. So the Mid-Autumn Festival is on the15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago. In feudal times, Emperor China prayed to God for a prosperous year. They choose to worship the sun in the morning of February 15 in the lunar calendar, and hold a ceremony to worship the moon in the evening of August 15 in the lunar calendar. In the west of Beijing is Yuetan Park, which was originally a temple of the moon. Every year, the emperor goes there to worship the moon.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, farmers have just finished harvesting crops and fruits from orchards. When they harvest, they are ecstatic, and at the same time, after a year of hard work, they feel very relaxed. Therefore, the fifth day of the eighth lunar month has gradually evolved into a festival widely celebrated by ordinary people. When night falls, the earth is bathed in silver moonlight. Families set up tables in the yard, or sit on the balcony together, chatting and sharing offerings to the moon. They enjoy the charm of the night together.

People in different parts of China celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in different ways. But there is a traditional custom that has been preserved and shared by all people in China. This is a holiday specialty: cake shaped like the moon.

There is a story about moon cakes. It is said that in the14th century, China farmers could no longer stand the cruel rule of the Mongols. They secretly planned an uprising on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The custom of farmers' leaders using moon cakes as holiday gifts. They left information about the plan on paper and put it under the moon cake. Therefore, all the farmers were told about the uprising, and in the end, they won the battle.

At first, mooncakes were a family tradition. But gradually, they began to appear in markets and shops. Moon cakes made all over the country have very different flavors. For example, the moon cakes in Beijing are thin and filled with bean paste and jujube paste. So they are very sweet. Suzhou moon cakes have a special kind of people's love. Guangdong moon cakes are probably the most exquisite. The fillings are carefully selected, including sesame seeds, almonds and walnuts, shredded coconut, lotus seeds and egg yolk. So don't forget to taste all the delicious moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival.