中秋节英文简介（100词）

The Moon Festival or Mid –autumn Festival is one of the three major traditional festivals celebrated by Chinese people. Like harvest time in other countries, the Mid-autumn Festival actually began as a thanksgiving celebration, honoring the Soil God and the Crop God. This is also a time for family reunions. Chinese people enjoy moon cakes during this feast just as they eat rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival. It is quite appropriate to bring moon cakes with you in token of festival greetings when calling on people during this season.

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, Chan