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English stories about Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important festival in China. It falls on the15th day in August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help clean the house clean and beautiful. Lantern will be hung in front of the house.

There will be a big family dinner in the evening. People who work far from home will try to come back to join the trade union. After dinner, people will light lanterns, which are usually red and round. Children will happily play with their own toy lanterns.

At night, the moon is usually round and bright. People can enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes, which are the special food of this festival. They can look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there is a dragon in the sky. The dragon wants to swallow the moon. Protect and scare away dragons.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important festival in China, which falls on August 15th. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family helped clean the house, decorated it beautifully and hung lanterns in front of it.

There will be a good meal in the evening, and people who work away from home will come back for reunion. After dinner, people light lanterns, usually red round lanterns. Children will play with their toy lanterns happily.

At night, the moon is round and big. People enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes, a special food of Mid-Autumn Festival. People look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there is a dragon in the sky, trying to swallow the moon. In order to protect the moon, the children had to make a loud noise to scare the dragon away.