五一英语作文中秋的起源 Mid-Autumn Festival--origin

中秋的起源 Mid-Autumn Festival--
origin




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Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of
the lunar calendar. Mid- Autumn is a time for family members
and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an
auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults
will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many
varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while
the little ones run around with their brightly-lit
lanterns.
festival. The festival was later given a mythological
flavour with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the
ing to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10
suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared
together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth
was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in
shooting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir of life
but to save the people from his tyrannical rule, his wife,
Chang-E drank it. Thus started the legend of the lady in
the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-
Autumn Festival. In the 14th century, the eating of
mooncakes at
The story goes that when Zhu Yuan Zhang was plotting to
overthrow the Yuan dynasty started by the Mongolians, the
rebels hid their messages in the Mid-Autumn
Qiu Jie is hence also a commemoration of the overthrow of
the Mongolians by the Han people. During the Yuan dynasty
(A.D.1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people.
Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D.960-1280) were

unhappy at submitting to foreign rule, and set how to
coordinate the rebellion without it being discovered. The
leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival
was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes.
Backed into each mooncake was a message with the outline of
the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels
successfully attacked and overthrew the government. What
followed was the establishment of the Ming dynasty (A.D.
1368-1644). Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this
event.