Mid Autumn Festival story and how Chinese celebrate it

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Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October on the Gregorian calendar.

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Mid-autumn festival is one of my favorite festivals, especially when I was young, we all went to grandama's house, played games with brothers and sisters at the courtyard, our parents busied to prepare dinner, we ate sweet moon cakes together under the moonlight, very pleasant memory!

ceciliapeng

Is it weird that i want to celebrate this even though im not chinese? It's just so pretty with all the cakes and lanterns and even the story, and i really like that you share a big meal with loved ones.

jocelynnelson

For the first time I was invited to celebrate this festival with co workers and I honestly didn't know what this festival was all about but I'm glad I've gained knowledge of it. It's a really great tale.

sprinkles

Today my Chinese teacher showed this to us today at school and now I love this video

XLaraX

I've typed a transcript of the video. Hope it will help teachers who want to share this video with their students:
As the legend goes...In the distant past, there was a beautiful woman called Chang'e. Her husband Hou Yi was a brilliant archer. At that time, there were ten suns in the sky. And the people on earth were living in the blistering heat. To save the earth, Hou Yi used his bow and arrow to shoot down nine of the suns.

Hou Yi was respected as the national hero and receive an elixir of immortality as a reward for saving the people from the heat of multiple suns. However, the elixir had only enough for one person, and both of them didn't want to leave each other.

But one day, one of Hou Yi's students tried to seize the elixir when he wasn't at home. In order to protect the elixir from thieves, Chang'e took the magic elixir of immortality. Then she flew to the moon and became the moon goddess, leaving her husband behind.

Alone on earth, Hou Yi missed his wife so much that he made an offering to the moon and tried to find the shape of Chang'e in the moon.

To remember Chang'e, Chinese people worship the moon by eating fruits and moon-shaped desserts called mooncakes.
This is the legend of the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also called the "the Moon Festival"

Nowadays, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also a harvest festival has become a family holiday like Thanksgiving.

Chinese people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by having a large dinner with family, worshiping the moon with gifts, traveling, viewing lanterns shows, eating various desserts and releasing flying lanterns to pray for their happiness and happiness of their families.

hamsterhoiting

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. Families would love to have dinner together and travel to some nearby areas to enjoy a 3-day holiday.

antypang

The story of Houyi and Chang’e is one of the world’s greatest mythologies. In full, it is easily comparable with anything from Greek or Rome.

australianenglishwithjason

A+ video!
Awesome explanation and animation, LOVE IT!

btetschner

My Chinese teacher showed this video to us and I'm so excited for the Mid Autumn Festival 🤩

Evan-

I am an ece teacher. Thanks for this lovely story sharing.❤

linbi

The rabbit is so cute and the background music is so beautiful. I love this beautiful festival. It is a family reunion day!

何倩-cm

Teacher asked me to watch it, now I love it

nahte

I used this as a guide for my classmates for a school assignment!

vopiii

This story was very nice to hear also it was easy to understand!

sshadowshade

I know about chang'e after i read my sister book around 2005. I'm a Muslim and i love reading other races stories. Luckily i can eat halal mooncake. I really want to eat mooncake since little girl. I also watched Netflix Over The Moon. 😍

ikastrawberi