嫦娥奔月_英文版

Our topic is Mid-autumn day. To talk about the origination, it is really a long story and I have to omit some insignificant plots during my speaking. 嫦娥奔月 The story should begin with Houyi shooting down the suns. Long long time ago, Houyi and Changer were known as a happy couple in heaven and were deeply in love with each other. After Houyi shooting down the suns, the Jade Emperor got so furious that he ordered Houyi, together with Changer, to stay at the earth forever and never return to the heaven. Since then, they suffered from illness and death as ordinary human beings. As times went by, Changer was terrified to see wrinkles around her face and so she asked Houyi to find some way to stop being aging. Houyi heard that there lived a Goddess on the top of Kunlun Mountain, who had a pill of immortality, so he went and begged for it. Fortunately，the Goddess gave him one pill and told Hou Yi that if one person took the pill he would ascend to Heaven, but if he cut the pill into two halves and shared it with another person, they could only live forever. Also, the pill had to be taken on the 15th night of the eighth month when the moon was fullest. Hou Yi went home to Chang Er. And they decided to divide the pill and take it at the proper time. Three days before the fullest moon, Hou Yi heard of another pill on Tianshan mountain, which could make women always young and beautiful. For his wife, Hou Yi promised Changer to get the wonderful pill back in three days. But on the 15th of the eighth month, Chang Er waited and later grew impatient, She was informed by a fraud that Houyi went for another woman and would never come back. Changer was filled with sorrow and swallowed the whole pill. At once she felt her body becoming lighter, rising upwards towards the sky. At this moment Hou Yi arrived back with another pill and saw Chang Er ascending faster and faster. The gods in heaven despised Chang Er because she had abandoned her husband. Chang Er had to change her direction and head towards the cold palace in the moon. Later, Houyi took to drink and was killed by his enemy. When Chang Er saw everything and deeply mourned what she had done. She was cut off from the happy life in heaven and became the moon goddess. Each year on the 15th day of August, when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, people look at the moon and try to see the beautiful Moon Goddess and recall the beautiful but sad story. 月饼 When talking of the Moon Cakes, there is an interesting story about the moon-cake. During the Yuan dynasty, China was ruled by the Mongolian, who were very cruel to people. The people were so angry that some brave guys planned to rebel without being discovered. When the Moon Festival was drawing near, they made plenty of special cakes, in which there was a message note drawn with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. After that, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend. Nowadays, there are varieties of moon cakes on sale. As a traditional custom, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. Together with the celebration there are also some other special customs in different parts of China, such as burning incense（熏香）, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However, in our mind, the first and foremost thing in Mid-autumn day is to stay with your family, have a good cup of tea, look up at the full silver moon, enjoy the fragrant moon cake. That’s the supreme happiness of life. Thank you!