嫦娥奔月英文版

1、Our topic is Mid-autumn day. To talk about the origination, it is really a long story and I have to omit some in sig nifica nt plots duri ng my speak ing.嫦娥奔月The story should beg in with Houyi shooti ng dow n the suns. Long long time ago, Houyi and Chan ger were known as a happy couple in heave n an

2、d were deeply in love with each other. After Houyi shooting down the suns, the Jade Emperor got so furious that he ordered Houyi, together with Chan ger, to stay at the earth forever and n ever retur n to the heave n. Since the n, they suffered from ill ness and death as ordinary huma n bein gs.As t

3、imes went by, Chan ger was terrified to see wrin kles around her face and so she asked Houyi to find some way to stop being agi ng. Houyi heard that there lived a Goddess on the top of Kunlun Mountain, who had a pill of immortality, so he went and begged for it. Fortunately , the Goddess gave him on

4、e pill and told Hou Yi that if one pers on took the pill he would asce nd to Heaven, but if he cut the pill into two halves and shared it with another person, they could only live forever. Also, the pill had to be take n on the 15th ni ght of the eighth mon th whe n the moon was fullest. Hou Yi went

5、 home to Chang Er.And they decided to divide the pill and take it at the proper time.Three days before the fullest moon, Hou Yi heard of another pill on Tianshan mountain, which could make wome n always young and beautiful. For his wife, Hou Yi promised Chan ger to get the won derful pill back in th

6、ree days.But on the 15th of the eighth mon th, Chang Er waited and later grew impatie nt, She was in formed by a fraud that Houyi went for ano ther woma n and would n ever come back. Chan ger was filled with sorrow and swallowed the whole pill. At once she felt her body becoming lighter, rising upwa

7、rds towards the sky. At this moment Hou Yi arrived back with another pill and saw Chang Er asce nding faster and faster.The gods in heave n despised Chang Er because she had aba ndoned her husba nd. Chang Er had to cha nge her directi on and head towards the cold palace in the moon. Later, Houyi too

8、k to drink and was killed by his enemy.Whe n Chang Er saw everythi ng and deeply mour ned what she had done. She was cut off from the happy life in heave n and became the moon goddess.Each year on the 15th day of August, when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, people look at the moon and try

9、to see the beautiful Moon Goddess and recall the beautiful but sad story.月饼When talking of the Moon Cakes, there is an interesting story about the moon-cake. During the Yua n dyn asty, China was ruled by the Mon golia n, who were very cruel to people. The people were so angry that some brave guys pl

10、a nned to rebel without being discovered. When the Moon Festival was drawing near, they made plenty of special cakes, in which there was a message note draw n with the outl ine of the attack. On the ni ght of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the gover nment. After th

11、at, moon cakes are eate n to commemorate this lege nd.Nowadays, there are varieties of moon cakes on sale.As a traditi onal custom, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. Together with the celebrati on there are also some other special customs in differe nt parts of China, such as burning incense（熏香），planting Mid-Autumn trees, lightinglanterns on towers and fire drago n dan ces.However, in our mind, the first and foremost thin