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Mid-Autumn Festival Food English Sentences

"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. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns.

The 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, every family gets together and watches the full moon, a symbol of abundance, harmony and good fortune, together as a family***. At this time, adults eat delicious mooncakes and sip hot fragrant tea, while children have fun pulling rabbit lamps.

"Zhong Qiu Jie" probably began as a harvest festival. The festival was later given a mythological flavour with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon.

The Mid-Autumn Festival probably began as a harvest festival. Later, it was given a mythological flavour with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon.

According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife was not able to do so. Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife, Chang-E drank it. Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there were 10 suns in the sky. One day, all 10 suns appeared at the same time and the heat was unbearable. The archer Hou Yi shot down 9 of the suns and saved the living beings on earth. He stole the elixir of immortality, but his wife Chang'e secretly drank it. Since then, the legend that every year when the moon is full in the Mid-Autumn Festival, young girls have to pray to Chang'e, a fairy in the Moon Palace, for blessings has spread.

In the 14th century, the eating of mooncakes at "Zhong Qiu Jie" was given a new significance. The story goes that when Zhu Yuan Zhang was plotting to The story goes that when Zhu Yuan Zhang was plotting to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty started by the Mongolians, the rebels hid their messages in the Mid-Autumn mooncakes. Zhong Qiu Jie is hence also a commemoration of the overthrow. Zhong Qiu Jie is hence also a commemoration of the overthrow of the Mongolians by the Han people.

In the 14th century, the eating of mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival was given another layer of special meaning. Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang led an uprising to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, the generals used to hide their contact letters in mooncakes. As a result, the Mid-Autumn Festival later became the anniversary of the overthrow of the Mongols by the Han Chinese. String 7

During the Yuan Dynasty (A.D.1206-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung Dynasty (A.D.960-1279) Leaders from the preceding Sung Dynasty (A.D.960-1279) were unhappy at submitting to foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without it being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Packed into each mooncake was a message with the outline of the attack. night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government. What followed was the establishment of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). What followed was the establishment of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this event.