English stories of Mid-Autumn Festival

Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is like eating meat pies at Christmas. Traditionally, this seasonal round cake has a sweet lotus paste or bean paste filling, usually with one or more salted duck eggs in the middle to represent the moon. The moon is the whole of this celebration. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the15th day of the eighth month, which is said to be the brightest and roundest time of the moon. This year's festival is on 10 1 day.

Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is as essential as eating a hundred fruit pies at Christmas in the West. Round moon cakes are usually filled with sweet lotus seeds or red beans, and a golden salted duck egg yolk is added in the center of the stuffing to represent the moon. The moon is the theme of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration. Every year, people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 of the lunar calendar. It is said that the moon on this day is the brightest and roundest in a year. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the Gregorian calendar 1 (National Day of China).

The second legend is that in the Yuan Dynasty, an underground organization led by Zhu Yuan Zang was determined to get rid of Mongolian rule in this country. Mooncakes are used to send secret messages. When the moon cake was opened and the message was read, the uprising broke out and the Mongols were successfully defeated. It happened at the time of the full moon. Some people say that this explains why we eat moon cakes at this time.

The second legend tells that in the Yuan Dynasty, the rebels led by Zhu Yuanzhang planned an uprising to get rid of the Mongolian rule. They use moon cakes to send secret messages. You can open the moon cakes to find the secret information. In this way, the rebels successfully launched an uprising and drove away the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. The uprising took place on August 15th, so the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people.

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