求一篇关于中秋节的英文介绍,100个单词即可,急用,

求一篇关于中秋节的英文介绍,100个单词即可,急用,
求一篇关于中秋节的英文介绍,100个单词即可,急用,

求一篇关于中秋节的英文介绍,100个单词即可,急用,
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 master, who was an immortal. From him Wu learned to be immortal himself, but he was punished（惩罚） by being required to chop（砍） down a cassia（肉桂） tree in the moon, an impossible mission. The cut in the tree heals（痊愈） completely the same day, so Wu Kang is still chopping away for eternity（永远）. Some Chinese crave（渴求） to drink his cassia blossom wine（桂花酒）.
The Chinese believe that the moon is at its largest and brightest, and Chang E at her most beautiful, on the 15th night of the eighth lunar(阴历) month. They are at least half-right, for at that time most of China is in the dry season and the moon looms brightest. It's also cool then, a perfect time to celebrate the harvest which has just concluded; hence（因此）, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Harvest Festival. The festival is a time for family reunions（团聚） to appreciate the moon (赏月) and eat moon cakes together. Bathed in bright moonshine and with the company（陪伴） of chrysanthemum（菊花） and cassia blossoms, poets（诗人） eat crab meat（蟹肉） and moon cake, drink tea and wine, and versify the night away.

The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month. It's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Chinese culture is deeply imbedded in traditional festivals. Just like Christmas and Thanks...

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The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month. It's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Chinese culture is deeply imbedded in traditional festivals. Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese.
The Moon Festival is full of legendary stories. Legend says that Chang Er flew to the moon, where she has lived ever since. You might see her dancing on the moon during the Moon Festival. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems. With the full moon, the legend, the family and the poems, you can't help thinking that this is really a perfect world. That is why the Chinese are so fond of the Moon Festival.
The Moon Festival is also a romantic one. A perfect night for the festival is if it is a quiet night without a silk of cloud and with a little mild breeze from the sea. Lovers spend such a romatic night together tasting the delicious moon cake with some wine while watching the full moon. Even for a couple who can't be together, they can still enjoy the night by watching the moon at the same time so it seems that they are together at that hour. A great number of poetry has been devoted to this romantic festival. Hope the Moon Festival will bring you happiness.
The moon cake is the food for the Moon Festival. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the sky. Here are a few pictures of the typical moon cake.

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The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon，around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）. Many referred to it simply as the “Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon”.
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The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon，around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）. Many referred to it simply as the “Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon”.
This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits，vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples，pears，peaches，grapes，pomegranates（石榴），melons，oranges and pomelos（柚子）might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes，cooked taro（芋头）and water caltrope（菱角），a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation，taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods，it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The round moon cakes，measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness，resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds（西瓜子），lotus seeds（莲籽），almonds（杏仁），minced meats，bean paste，orange peels and lard（猪油）. A golden yolk（蛋黄）from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake，and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally，thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a “complete year，” that is，twelve moons plus one intercalary（闰月的）moon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority nationalities. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back as far as the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties（2000 B.C.-1066 B.C.）. In the Zhou Dynasty（1066 B.C.-221 B.C.），people hold ceremonies to greet winter and worship the moon whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival sets in. It becomes very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty（618-907 A.D.）that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty（1127-1279 A.D.），however，people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it becomes dark，they look up at the full silver moon or go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival. Since the Ming（1368-1644 A.D. ）and Qing Dynasties（1644-1911A.D.），the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration becomes unprecedented popular. Together with the celebration there appear some special customs in different parts of the country，such as burning incense（熏香），planting Mid-Autumn trees，lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However，the custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays，but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in，people will look up at the full silver moon，drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home，and extending all of their best wishes to them.
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