The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a celebration that focuses on the moon.
每年的农历八月十五是中秋节，这是一个关于月亮的节日。
Enjoying the beauty of the full moon on this day has been a long-standing traditional Chinese Custom for centuries.
在这一天欣赏满月是中国人从古至今的习俗。
According to the legend,in ancient times there were ten suns in the sky simultaneously and the strong exposure and extremely hot temperature made people’s lives a misery.
相传远古时期，天上有10个太阳同时出现，暴晒和高温使得民不聊生。
A hero named Houyi came along, shot down nine suns and saved the world. To reward his bravery,the Queen Mother gave him an elixir as a reward.
有一名后裔的英雄出现，射下了九个太阳，拯救了世界。因此王母娘娘赠与他不死神丹以示嘉奖。
Chang’e, Houyi’s wife,drank the elixir by accident and became immortal. Since immortals cannot remain in a mortal realm,she had to leave the earth and ascended to the moon and could only watch the human world from afar.
嫦娥，后裔的妻子，因误食仙丹而羽化成仙，自此不能下凡，她只得飞向月亮，长居月宫之中，遥遥望着人间。
China’s “Chang’e Moon Exploration Project”is named after this story. On Jan.3,2019,Chang’e detector No.4 successfully landed on the moon, returning the world’s first close-range image of the dark side of the moon. 中国嫦娥探月工程就得名于嫦娥奔月的故事。2019年1月3日，嫦娥4号探测器成果着陆在月球背面，传回了世界第一张近距离拍摄的月背影像图。
Aside from Spring Festival,the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most important festival symbolizing reunion. A full moon expresses people’s desire for a happy wholesome family. 除春节之外，中秋节是最重要的团圆节日，圆圆的月亮寄托了人们对家庭圆满的愿望。 Eating moon cake is an important custom in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Due to the different diet habits ,moon cakes vary in tastes. Traditional flavors include bean paste,jujube paste,five kernel,egg yolk. Now there are new flavors like ice cream or durian. 吃月饼是中秋节的重要习俗。因各地饮食习俗不同，月饼的口味五花八门，包括传统的五仁、蛋黄、枣泥、豆沙。如今还演变出冰激凌、榴莲月饼等等。 Although the taste of moon cake is changing,the symbolic meaning of the full moon remains unchanged and Chinese custom of eating moon cake and longing for reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival will never fade away. 虽然月饼的口味在变，但团圆的寓意一直未变，中国人吃月饼的习俗和对中秋团圆期盼也从未改变。
After short get-together during the Mid-Autumn Festival,the Double Ninth Festival,a festival of renewal growth and cherishing the past is just around the corner,led by the old and the wise. 短暂的中秋欢聚之后，将迎来登高怀古的重阳节，这一天的主角是富有智慧的老人们。