Originally named the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Festival is one of the most important holidays celebrated by Chinese communities（社会）around the world.
Traditionally, it is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month in observance（庆祝） of the bountiful Autumn harvest. Although old rituals（仪式） are no longer followed, families continue to gather for a day to relax and eat moon cakes. Upon this occasion, the legend of the Moon Goddess, CHANG-O, is often told to children.
Once upon a time there was a famous archer（射手）, Hou Yi, who with his arrows was able to slay（宰杀） mankind’s worst enemies, ferocious（凶猛的） beasts that inhabited（居住） the earth. Yi was married to Chang-O, a beautiful but inquisitive（好奇的） woman who had been an attendant（侍女） of the queen mother of the west before her marriage. Now at this time, there were 10 suns that took turns circling the earth—one every 10 days. One day, all 10 of the orbs（天体，此指太阳） circled, together, causing the earth’s surface to burn and threatening mankind. The wise emperor of China summoned（召见） Yi and commanded him to kill but one of the suns. This Yi proceeded to do. Upon the completion of his task, Yi was rewarded with a pill, the elixir of life（长生不老药）, and advised: "make no haste to swallow this pill, but first prepare yourself with prayer and fasting for a year." Being a wise man, Yi took the pill home and hid it under a rafter（椽） while he began healing his spirit, In the midst of this, Yi was summoned again by the emperor.
While her husband was gone, Chang-O noticed a beam of white light beckoning from the rafter. She followed it and a fragrant perfume, discovered the pill and swallowed it. Immediately, Chang-O found she could fly. Just at that moment her husband returned home, realize what had happened and began to reprimand（申斥） his wife. Chang-O flew out the window into the sky. Yi sped after her, bow in hand, and the pursuit continued halfway across the heavens. Finally, Yi had to return to the earth because of the force of the wind.
His wife reached the moon and there, breathless（喘不过气来）, she coughed and part of the pill fell from her mouth. Now, the hare was already on the moon and Chang-O commanded the animal to take pestle and mortar （杵臼） and pound another pill so that she return to earth and her husband. The hare is still pounding.
As for Yi, he built himself a palace in the sun as Yang (the sun and the male principle), Chang-O as Yin (the moon and the female principle).
Once a year, on the 15th day of the full moon, Yi visits his wife. That is why the moon is full and beautiful on that night.
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[ 本帖最后由 RHETT 于 2008-9-13 16:04 编辑 ]
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muchenxin (2008-9-13 16:05:27)
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中秋节xiaok童鞋打算做什么事呢?有没回家团圆?
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支持一下.呵
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莫名其妙地想到了儿童歌曲“种太阳”~~~~~
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