Mid-Autumn Festival

Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival, which has been a traditional festival  in our culture for about two thousand years.
The moon tomorrow night will be the biggest and the brightest of the year. An old legend says that a beautiful young lady, named Chang'e, wanted to be a fairy, she stole the only medicine from her husband who was an excellent archer, named HouYi. The medicine could make them two immortal, but just turned one person into a faerie. Chang'e couldn't help eating the medicine secretly and was shamed before her husband found out.  Then she flew to the moon with her little white rabbit and lived there lonely forever.
OK, it is a sentimental fairy tale. In real life, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a important day for family reunion. The classical scene is that the whole family shall eat moon cake and many fruits together in their yard as they enjoy the sight of the moon sky. There are many kinds of moon cake from different places.

Attached a famous poem for the festival, which was written more than one thousand years ago.
《水调歌头》（宋）苏轼 　　
明月几时有？把酒问青天。
Asked the sky with wine how many days are there with the finest moonlight.　　
不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？
Which year is it about the faerie　　
我欲乘风归去，又恐琼楼玉宇，高处不胜寒！
I want to fly with the wind to the faerie where I am afraid is cold very much (imply that it is hard to get along with nobles)
起舞弄清影，何似在人间! 　
The place where fairies live is as fine as my place tonight　
转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。
I can't fall in sleep under so beautiful moonlight 　　
不应有恨，何事长向别时圆？
Not everything is perfect like the full moon tonight, so don't complain　　
人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。
It is always that people like the moon, some time are happy like the full moon, some time are sad like waned moon　　
但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
I wish that everyone would live longly and happily even if I was far away from you

Mid-Autumn Festival

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OK, it is a sentimental fairy tale. In real life, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a important day for family reunion. The classical scene is that the whole family shall eat moon cake and many fruits together as they enjoy the sight of the moonli<strike>gh</strike>t sky. There are many kinds of moon cake<strike>s</strike> from different places.

Attached a famous poem for the festival, which was written more than one thousand years ago.
《水调歌头》（宋）苏轼 　　
明月几时有？把酒问青天。
Asked the sky with wine how many days are with fine moonlight.　　
不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？
Who can tell me which year it is.　　
我欲乘风归去，又恐琼楼玉宇，高处不胜寒！
I want to fly with the wind to the sky where I am afraid is cold very much
起舞弄清影，何似在人间! 　
The place where fairies live is fine as my place tonight　
转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。
I can't sleep in the so beautiful moonlight 　　
不应有恨，何事长向别时圆？
Not everything is perfect like the round moon tonight, so don't complain　　
人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。
It is always that people like the moon, some time are happy like the round moon, some time are sad like curved moon　　
但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
I wish that everyone would live long and happily even if I was far away from you

Lovely story, Apple; thanks for sharing it with us.  Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you and your family.