Hello everyone!
The Mid Autumn Festival has many customs, such as eating moon cakes, enjoying the moon, drinking osmanthus wine and so on, but do you know the origin of the Mid Autumn Festival?
It is said that Hou Yi went to the mountains to find friends. When he saw the West Queen's mother passing by, he asked the West Queen's mother for a bag of immortal medicine. After returning home, Hou Yi gave the elixir to his wife Chang'e for safekeeping. But he was seen by his brother, Yun Meng, who immediately had a bad heart.
Once Hou Yi took his apprentice to hunt. He pretended to have a stomachache and stayed. As soon as Hou Yi left, Pang Meng broke into the room with a sword and forced Chang'e to hand over the elixir of immortality. Chang'e was forced to retreat. When she retreated to the bed, Chang'e had an idea and swallowed the elixir under her pillow. Just after eating, Chang'e felt that she had become light and floated into the air. Chang'e was worried about her husband, so she flew to the nearest moon and became an immortal.
After Hou Yi came back, he found Chang'e's moon in the sky and said to him, "the moon will round tonight. You make a dough in the northeast corner of the house at night. When midnight, our husband and wife will be reunited." After Hou Yi did so, they were reunited at midnight.
From then on, Hou Yi would make dough every year on August 15, waiting for Chang'e to come back to eat. Later, this custom was inherited and developed into the current Mid Autumn Festival. Eating moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival has become a major custom of traditional festivals.
I like the fairy tale of Chang'e running to the moon and the Mid Autumn Festival.
Thank you!
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