中秋节英文简介（六年级水平）

Hou Yi (后羿) was a great archer（射手） and architect（建筑家）, who shot down nine extra（多余的） suns that had suddenly appeared in the sky and thus（因此） kept the earth from being scorched（烤焦）. He also built a palace of jade（翡翠） for the Goddess of the Western Heaven（西王母）. For this, he was rewarded with a pill containing the elixir（长生不老药） of immortality（不朽）, but with strings attached--he must fast（斋戒） and pray for a year before taking it. His wife, Chang E (嫦娥), whose beauty was surpassed（超过） only by her curiosity, discovered and swallowed（吞） the pill and in no time soared（高飞） to the moon and became a permanent（永久） resident（居民） there. Upon reaching the moon, Chang E, in dismay（沮丧）, coughed up the pill, which turned into a jade rabbit that, day and night, pounds out a celestial（天上的） elixir for the immortals.

Another permanent lunar resident of Chinese origin（出身） is Wu Kang (吴刚), a shiftless（偷懒的） fellow who changed apprenticeships（学徒年限） all the time before disappointing（使失望） his last ma