中国传统节日中英对照中秋节（Chinese traditional festival Mid Autumn Festival）.docVIP

中国传统节日中英对照中秋节（Chinese traditional festival Mid Autumn Festival） Chinese traditional festival: Mid Autumn Festival Every year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, is the traditional mid autumn festival. This is the mid autumn of the year, so it is called mid autumn festival. The Mid Autumn Festival has a long history, and other traditional festivals, is also slowly evolved, the emperors of ancient spring, autumn festival on the ritual, as early as in Zhou Li in one book, the Mid Autumn Festival records. Later aristocrats and scholars also follow up, in the Mid Autumn Festival, in the sky was bright and round round moon, ornamental worship, sustenance feelings, so the custom to folk, form a traditional activity, until the Tang Dynasty, the festival custom for people more attention, the mid autumn festival became a fixed the festival, Tang Taizong of the mind records in August fifteen, the Festival Mid Autumn Festival prevalent in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the famous New Years day has become one of the major festivals in china. According to legend, in ancient times the sky is the ten day at the same time, sun withered crops, The people are destitute., a hero named Hou Yi, Litaiwuqiong, he sympathized with the suffering of the people, boarded the Kunlun peak, the full power of operation, drew his bow and shot down nine more than the sun, and ordered the last time the sun rises for the benefit of the people. Hou Yi is so respected and loved by the people, many who came to Toushi, he also mixed in meng. Hou Yi has a beautiful wife called Chang E. One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountains to visit a family and met the queen mother, who sought a package of immortality. It is said that taking this medicine will soon become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not bear to leave his wife, and had to give the immortality medicine to the goddess of the moon for the time being. The goddess of the moon will treasure box medicine