Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival
aka Mooncake Festival.
This is the day where we eat some Mooncake.
Or do you want some Neo-mooncake?
Take out the Lantern
And admire the Moon.
Just in case you are interested, here's the Legend behind the Festival:
This is the day where we eat some Mooncake.
Or do you want some Neo-mooncake?
Take out the Lantern
And admire the Moon.
Just in case you are interested, here's the Legend behind the Festival:
Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "zhong qiu jie."
Children are told the story of the moon fairy living in a crystal palace, who comes out to dance on the moon's shadowed surface. The legend surrounding the "lady living in the moon" dates back to ancient times, to a day when ten suns appeared at once in the sky. The Emperor ordered a famous archer to shoot down the nine extra suns. Once the task was accomplished, Goddess of Western Heaven rewarded the archer with a pill that would make him immortal. However, his wife found the pill, took it, and was banished to the moon as a result. Legend says that her beauty is greatest on the day of the Moon festival.
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