Mooncake Festival

1. Good morning everyone! Before we start, let us watch this short video first. I hope you like it.
2. Video
3. Today, we will introduce you a Chinese traditional festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, maybe you
have known it for so long time, but do you really know it well? Let us approach our coming
festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival.
4. Appreciate the moon.
5. Zhong Qiu Jie, which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th
day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. Mid-Autumn Day is a traditional festival in China.
Almost everyone likes to eat mooncakes on that day. Most families have a dinner together to
celebrate the festival. A saying goes, "The moon in your hometown is almost always the
brightest and roundest". Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a
family reunion. How happy it is to enjoy the mooncakes while watching the full moon with your
family members.
6. The August Moon Festival is often called the Women's Festival. The moon (Chinese character
on right) symbolizes elegance and beauty. While Westerners worship the sun (yang or male) for
its power, people in the Far East admire the moon. The moon is the 'yin' or female principle and
it is a trusted friend. Chinese parents often name their daughters after the moon, in hope that
they will be as lovely as the moon.
7. These are the characters. Chang E. Hou Yi. Wu Gang. And the Jade Rabbit.
8. Chang E The Moon Fairy Lady
9. Chang E, is Hou Yis wife, somehow swallows the potion of immortality, causing her to float up
and fly to the moon
10. Chang E, a toad? In some legends, Chiang E becomes a toad and becomes a princess only
during the Full Moon.
11. Hou Yi shoots down nine suns.
12. Hou Yi the Archer, shooting down the 9 Suns that endangered the Earth with extreme heat. He
was rewarded by the Jade Emperor with a potion of immortality.
13. Hou Yi and Chang E. Hou Yi, now the sun god, can visit his wife Chiang E only during nights of
the full moon.
14. In fact, many ancient August Moon folktales are about a moon maiden. On the 15th night of the
8th lunar moon, little children on earth can see a lady on the moon.
The story about the lady took place around 2170 B.C. At that time, the earth had ten suns
circling it, each taking its turn to illuminate to the earth. But one day all ten suns appeared
together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved by a strong archer named
Hou Yi. He succeeded in shooting down nine of the suns. One day, Hou Yi stole the elixir of life
from a goddess. However, his beautiful wife Chang E drank the elixir of life in order to save the
people from her husband's tyrannical rule. After drinking it, she found herself floating and flew all
the way to the moon. Hou Yi loved his beautiful wife so much, he refused to shoot down the
moon.
15. The wood cutter - Wu Gang
16. Another moon legend is that of Wood cutter Wu Gang, who attempted to become immortal.
He was punished for his hubris by being required to cut down a tree that magically heals itself
after each cut.
17. According to legend, there is a tall five hundred Zhang laurel on the moon. There was a man
named Wu Gang during the Han Dynasty .He addicted to Immortal and did not concentrate on
his study, so the emperor's wrath, detained him in the palace of the moon, made him to cut
down the tree, and said: if you cut down the tree, may obtain magic arts. Wu Gang began
cutting ,but each one ax, the tree healing wounds immediately. Day by day , his desire has not
reached.
18. Jade Rabbit
19. When Chiang E arrived on the moon, she coughed out the pill of immortality. This became the
Jade Rabbit.
Since then Jade Rabbit has worked at its pestle trying to make the potion of immortality with no
success.
20. The Jade Emperor rewards Hou Yi for saving the world with a pill (in some legends, an elixir) of
immortality.
21. It is said that there are three immortals, as the embodiment of the three poor old man. They beg
for food towards foxes, monkeys and rabbits . the fox and the monkey gave up food and relief
to the old, but only the rabbit is not . Then the rabbit said to the old man: "you eat me. and
jumped into the fire. The gods were moved by him, and sent him to the Moon Palace. Later,
rabbit in the Moon Palace in ramming ever-young pill.
22. Eat mooncakes
23. Moon Cakes that are traditionally eaten during the Moon Festival. Moon cakes usually have
fillings of fruit or nut paste. Egg yolks inside also signify more good luck.
24. Poems on the Mid-Autumn day
Dn yun rn chngji, qinl gng chnjun.
May the people live forever, and share the moon shine across vast distances together.
25. J tu wng mngyu, dtu s gxing
I raised my head, the splendid moon I see; Then drop my head and sink to dreams of my
hometown.
26. Hishng shng mngyu, ? Tiny gng c sh.
The moon, grown full now over the sea, Brightening the whole of heaven.
27. Time for thanksgiving with Family
In olden times, the Mid-autumn signals the end of working in the fields for the year. It is the time
for family members to come home and be together again.
These days, families spend Moon Festival together at home or in parks.
28. Thats all, thanks.

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