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The Amazing Mid-Autumn Festival

Hi there! My name is Li Ming and I'm 10 years old. I go to Beijing Elementary School. Today I want to tell you all about one of my favorite holidays - the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's a really cool festival we celebrate in China.

The Mid-Autumn Festival happens every year on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. That means the date changes a little bit each year, but it's always sometime in September or early October. This year, it falls on September 10th.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are lots of fun activities and yummy foods to enjoy! One of the biggest traditions is eating mooncakes. Mooncakes are these sweet round pastries that are shaped to look like the full moon. They have a thick pastry crust on the outside, and a sweet filling inside like lotus seed paste, red bean paste, or even ice cream! My

favorite kind has a salted egg yolk in the center. Doesn't that sound delicious?

Another tradition is carrying brightly lit lanterns at night. Lanterns come in all different shapes and sizes - some are shaped like animals, fruits, cartoon characters and more! The lanterns symbolize brightness and hope. On Mid-Autumn night, everyone goes outside and walks around carrying their lantern. It's so pretty to see the sky lit up with hundreds of colorful lanterns!

There's also a fun myth behind the Mid-Autumn Festival. A looong time ago, there were 10 suns in the sky instead of just one! Imaging how hot and scorching that would be. An awesome archer named Hou Yi shot down 9 of the suns so that people wouldn't get burned up. As a reward, the goddess of the moon gave him a magic pill that would make him immortal and live forever. But Hou Yi didn't want to be immortal without his beautiful wife Chang'e. So Chang'e took the pill instead. But then she floated up, up, up into the sky and landed on the moon! That's why we celebrate the moon during this festival.

My favorite part of Mid-Autumn Festival is getting together with my whole family. We have a big reunion dinner with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We eat mooncakes,

carry lanterns, and my dad always tells the myth about Chang'e and Hou Yi. After dinner, we kids play with sparklers and my parents give out those cute little red envelopes filled with money! It's the best night of the year.

Even though the Mid-Autumn Festival started in China hundreds of years ago, it's now celebrated by Chinese

communities all around the world. People decorate their houses, eat mooncakes, and carry lanterns no matter where they live - in the United States, Canada, England, Australia and more! So that's the Mid-Autumn Festival! It combines myths, traditions, bright lanterns, delicious foods, and quality family time. I hope you can experience it for yourself someday. If you ever visit China during the festival, let me know and I'll show you all the best mooncakes to try! Thanks for letting me tell you about one of my favorite Chinese holidays.

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My Favorite Holiday - The Mid-Autumn Festival

Hi there! My name is Xiaoming and I'm a student in China. I want to tell you all about my favorite holiday - the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's a really cool celebration that my whole family looks forward to every year.

The Mid-Autumn Festival happens on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. That means the date changes a little bit each year, but it's always sometime in September or early October. This year it was on September 10th. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are lots of fun activities and yummy foods to enjoy. One of the main traditions is eating mooncakes! Mooncakes are these really tasty round pastries with a sweet filling inside. The most common fillings are lotus seed paste, sweet bean paste, or egg yolks. My favorite is the lotus seed paste ones.

Mooncakes are shaped like the full moon that happens during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The full moon is very important for this holiday. My grandma told me that a long time ago, people celebrated the full moon's arrival because it meant the harvest season was being successful. So the Mid-Autumn Festival is kind of like a harvest festival!

Another tradition is carrying brightly lit lanterns at night. I love this part! My brother and I get to walk around our neighborhood with our parents, swinging our lantern back and forth. Lanterns can be all different shapes and colors - like dragons, rabbits, even the moon itself! Some neighborhoods

have lantern riddle games where you have to solve a riddle to keep your lantern lit.

At my house, we also put out an offering of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and incense on a table. This is to honor the moon and celebrate the harvest. We have things like pomelos, grapes, melons - all kinds of yummy seasonal fruits and veggies. After we do our offering, we get to eat the fruits and nuts as a snack! My school always has fun activities leading up to the Mid-Autumn Festival too. One year, we made our own lanterns out of construction paper and had a little lantern parade around the playground. Another year, we did a mooncake baking and decorating contest. I made a really cool rabbit-shaped mooncake! My teacher says the rabbit is an important symbol because according to an ancient myth, there's a rabbit living on the moon.

The best part of the Mid-Autumn Festival is just getting to spend quality time with my family. We stay up late watching the big, bright moon together and eating mooncakes. My grandparents always tell mythological stories about the moon and the holiday too. It's such a magical night!

I also enjoy learning about how other cultures celebrate the full moon or have their own harvest festivals. From what I've

heard, the Korean Chuseok holiday has some similarities to our Mid-Autumn Festival. And in Vietnam, they have a Children's Festival around the same time that's all about kids! Festivals bring people together which I think is really cool.

Well, that's the Mid-Autumn Festival in a nutshell! It's a time for families to get together, appreciate the moon, enjoy the fall harvest, and eat lots of delicious foods. Mooncakes, lanterns, and spending time with loved ones under the full moon - what's not to love? I'm already counting down the days until next year's celebration. Let me know if you have any other questions!

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My Favorite Festival - The Mid-Autumn Festival

Hi friends! Today I want to tell you all about my favorite holiday in China. It's called the Mid-Autumn Festival and it happens every year on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. That usually falls sometime in September or early October on the western calendar.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is kind of like Thanksgiving in America, except it's wayyyy older! It dates all the way back to the Zhou Dynasty over 3,000 years ago! Can you believe people have

been celebrating this festival for that long? It's been around forever!

There are lots of fun traditions and activities for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The biggest one is eating mooncakes! Mooncakes are these really yummy round pastries with a crispy outer shell and a sweet filling inside like lotus seed paste, red bean, or egg yolk. They are shaped like the full moon that happens on Mid-Autumn night.

Another big tradition is carrying brightly lit lanterns at night. There are lantern festivals and parades where everyone walks around waving their lanterns. Some lanterns are shaped like animals, characters from stories, or just pretty designs. Seeing all the colorful lantern lights glowing in the dark is so magical! On Mid-Autumn night, families get together to have a delicious reunion dinner, kind of like Thanksgiving dinner. We eat mooncakes and other tasty dishes like roasted pork, chicken, noodles, dumplings, and fresh fruits like pomelos and grapes. Yum! After our big meal, the whole family goes outside and appreciates the bright, full harvest moon together. We make wishes and give thanks for the autumn crops being safely gathered.

There are lots of cool stories and myths behind the Mid-Autumn Festival too! One of the most popular ones is the legend of Chang'e, the lady in the moon. The story goes that a long time ago, there were 10 suns in the sky which made the earth burn up. A skilled archer named Hou Yi had to shoot down 9 of the suns to save the earth, leaving just 1 sun. For doing this heroic deed, the gods rewarded Hou Yi with a magic pill that would make him immortal if he ate it.

But Hou Yi didn't want to live forever without his beautiful wife Chang'e, so he kept the pill safe, planning to share it with her. However, one of Hou Yi's students found out about the pill and tried to force Chang'e to give it to him so he could live forever too! To keep the greedy student away from the magic pill, Chang'e ended up swallowing the whole thing herself. The pill made her body become so light that she floated up to the moon. Hou Yi was heartbroken to be separated from his wife like that. On every Mid-Autumn night after that, Hou Yi set out a table with Chang'e's favorite foods, hoping she could at least smell them from up in the moon and not feel so lonely. People celebrate the festival now by giving offerings of mooncakes, fruits, and other foods in honor of Chang'e. We look up at the full, bright moon and think about Chang'e keeping watch over us.

Another popular Mid-Autumn myth is the story of the rabbit in the moon. Have you ever noticed that the shadowy patterns on the moon's surface kind of look like a rabbit standing on its hind legs? Well, according to the myth, there actually is a rabbit living on the moon! The story goes that once there was a rabbit that almost got caught in a forest fire. To escape, it jumped into a stream, but then it realized an old man was also trapped by the flames. With no other option, the selfless rabbit threw itself into the fire so the old man could use its body to cross the raging fire and save himself. The old man turned out to be a Taoist immortal god who was so touched by the rabbit's sacrifice that he drew its image on the moon as an eternal monument to its kindness. So now on Mid-Autumn night, we always look for the outline of the rabbit on the full moon's surface. It reminds us to be kind, brave, and selfless like the heroic rabbit. My grandma says she can see it hopping around up there, grinding herbs and plants with a mortar and pestle to make the elixir of immortality! Isn't the Mid-Autumn Festival amazing? There are just so many cool traditions, yummy foods, fun activities, and

fascinating stories surrounding it. No wonder it's one of the most important and exciting holidays we celebrate in China! Families get to spend quality time together, appreciate the fall harvest

bounty, enjoy the bright moonlight, and learn about our cultural history through the ancient myths.

I hope you enjoyed learning about my favorite festival. Next year when the Mid-Autumn Festival rolls around in September, look up at the full harvest moon and think of all the Chinese families gathered outside, eating mooncakes and

mooncake-shaped chocolates, carrying colorful lanterns, and searching the night sky for the outlines of the lady on the moon and her rabbit companion! And who knows, maybe you'll even catch a glimpse of the elixir of immortality being ground up if you look close enough!

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The Shiny Mid-Autumn Festival

Hi friends! My name is Lin Lin and I am 10 years old. I live in China and I love the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is one of my favorite holidays! Let me tell you all about this fun celebration.

The Mid-Autumn Festival happens every year on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar. This year it will be on September 10th. It is a very old festival that has been celebrated in China for over 3,000 years! Can you believe that? It

started as a harvest festival to give thanks for the crops, but now it is also about spending time with your family.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are lots of special foods we eat. The most popular is the mooncake! Mooncakes are round pastries filled with lotus seed paste or other sweet fillings. They are shaped like the full moon. My favorite kind has egg yolks inside that look like the moon. Yum! We also eat other tasty foods like pomelos, a big yellow citrus fruit, and drinks made from sweet osmanthus flowers.

There are many fun traditions for the Mid-Autumn Festival too. One of the most famous is watching the full, bright moon. My family and I always go outside after dinner and look up at the big, shiny moon together. We make wishes and give thanks for our blessings. Sometimes we have moon-viewing parties with our neighbors, cousins, and friends. We eat mooncakes, drink tea, and just enjoy being under the moonlight!

Another tradition is carrying brightly colored lanterns at night. Lanterns used to be very important before there was electric lights. Now we carry them just for fun! There are lantern festivals and parades where people show off fancy lanterns in the shapes of animals, cartoon characters, and more. I love getting a

new lantern each year. My favorite was the bunny lantern I got last year.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, families get together and have a big reunion dinner, kind of like Thanksgiving dinner. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all come over and we eat a delicious meal with dishes like whole roasted pig, dumplings, noodles, and vegetables. After we finish eating, the kids get red envelopes filled with money from the older relatives. It's the best!

The Mid-Autumn Festival reminds me of spending time with my loved ones. It doesn't matter if we are eating mooncakes, carrying lanterns, or just staring at the full moon, I'm just happy we are all together. Family is the most important part of this special festival.

I hope I could share a little bit about this amazing Chinese holiday with you. The next time the Mid-Autumn Festival comes around, find some Chinese friends and try delicious mooncakes, see the bright full moon, and experience all the fun traditions. You'll get to learn about Chinese culture while making great memories! Let me know if you celebrate it. I'll be waiting by the light of the lanterns!

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The Mid-Autumn Festival: A Special Chinese Holiday

Hi there friends! My name is Xiaoming and I'm 10 years old. I go to Peking Elementary School in Beijing, China. Today I want to tell you all about one of my favorite holidays - the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's a really cool celebration that we have in China every year.

The Mid-Autumn Festival happens on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. That's usually sometime in September or early October on the regular calendar you probably use. This year it will be on September 29th. It's called the \"Mid-Autumn\" festival because it marks the middle of the autumn season when the moon is at its brightest and roundest! This holiday is all about spending time with your family and celebrating the fullness and brightness of the moon. In Chinese the word for moon is \"yue ling\" (月亮). We believe the moon is very lucky and a symbol of peace, prosperity and family reunion. That's why on this day, families all get together to admire the beautiful full moon, eat delicious food, and just enjoy being with each other.

My favorite part of the festival is eating all the yummy foods! The most popular food is the mooncake. Mooncakes are these dense, sweet pastries that are shaped like the full moon. The top of the mooncake has a pattern on it that looks like the moon too. Inside, mooncakes are filled with different yummy fillings like lotus seed paste, sweet bean paste, egg yolks, and nuts. I especially love the ones with two egg yolks inside - those are so rich and delicious!

Another popular food for Mid-Autumn Festival are pomelos. Pomelos are a huge, thick-skinned citrus fruit that is kind of like a grapefruit but sweeter. We eat pomelos because they are round like the moon. When I was little my grandma would peel the pomelo and separate all the segments for me. It's a fun fruit to share with your family.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn festival, my whole family gets together at my grandparents' house. We have a big dinner with all kinds of dishes like whole roasted duck, rice, noodles, dumplings, and vegetables. After dinner, we go outside and admire the full moon. My grandpa always tells us the ancient legend about the lady living on the moon. It's a famous story about a woman named Chang'e who drank an immortality potion and floated up to live alone on the moon forever.

Whenever I see the full moon, I imagine Chang'e up there all alone!

One of my favorite traditions is making and carrying brightly decorated lanterns in the evenings during the festival. My brother and I get new lanterns every year and we light a little lamp inside to make them glow. Some lanterns are made to look like rabbits or other animals, which is cute. We take our lanterns and go walk around the neighborhood with our cousins, admiring all the other lanterns that families have hung up outside their homes. It feels so magical and festive with the full moon shining down on us, the lanterns glowing, and the smell of incense in the air from the little altars people set up outside. At school, we always have special activities to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival too. We learn about the customs and legends. We make arts and crafts projects like decorating paper lanterns. My teacher reads us stories about Chang'e and other folktales related to the moon. One year we even did a dragon dance around the playground holding up a huge fabric dragon! So much fun.

For me, the best part of Mid-Autumn Festival is just being with my family and taking part in all the yummy foods and fun traditions. I love the festive spirit, bright lanterns, and feeling so

connected to my Chinese culture and heritage. Even though the holiday is all about the moon, to me it's really about family togetherness, respect for our ancestors, and celebrating the autumn harvest. I feel so grateful to be part of these special traditions.

If you ever get a chance to experience the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, you definitely should! It's a beautiful and meaningful holiday full of lucky moons, delicious foods, colorful lanterns, and quality family time. Chinese people value the holiday so much because it brings everyone together to simply appreciate each other and the good things in life. I hope you enjoyed learning about this cool part of my culture!

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The Shiny Moon Festival

Hi friends! My name is Xiaoming and I'm 10 years old. I live in China and I love the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's one of my favorite holidays. Let me tell you all about it.

The Mid-Autumn Festival happens every year on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. That's usually sometime in September or early October. On this special day, the moon is biggest and roundest and brightest in the

whole year! We call it the \"shiny moon festival\" because the night sky looks so pretty with the big shiny moon.

There are lots of fun traditions for the Mid-Autumn Festival! One of the most important ones is eating mooncakes.

Mooncakes are these really yummy round pastries with a sweet filling inside. The round shape represents the full moon. My favorite kind has a lotus seed paste filling, but you can also get ones filled with red bean, nuts, egg yolks, or even ice cream! Another big tradition is carrying brightly lit lanterns at night. On Mid-Autumn Festival, you'll see all kinds of lanterns

everywhere - big ones, small ones, animal shapes, anything you can imagine! My grandma always helps me make a lantern to carry. One year I made a rabbit lantern and another year I made a dragon. Isn't that cool?

Families get together and have big reunion dinners on Mid-Autumn night. We eat mooncakes and fresh fruits like pomelos, grapes, persimmons and peanuts. Yum! After dinner, everyone goes outside to admire the bright shiny moon. We make wishes and give thanks for the harvest. Some people burn inscense sticks and make offerings to the moon too.

In parks and public spaces, there are lots of fun activities like lantern riddle games, lantern painting contests, and cultural

performances. I love trying to solve the lantern riddles! One year I even won a little prize.

One of my favorite parts is hearing the legend about the festival. A long, long time ago, there were 10 suns in the sky that took turns coming out each day. But one year, all 10 suns came out at the same time! This made the earth burn up and created a terrible drought and famine. Luckily, a brave archer named Hou Yi shot down 9 of the suns with his magical arrows, leaving just one sun in the sky. This saved the earth.

Later on, Hou Yi was given a magic potion that would let him live forever in the heavens. But he didn't drink it right away. Meanwhile, his beautiful wife Chang'e found the potion and drank it by mistake! As soon as she did, she started floating up towards the moon. Hou Yi was so sad to see his wife flying away. He put out a table with her favorite foods and fruits, hoping she would come back down. But Chang'e never returned to earth - she became a goddess living on the moon.

On every Mid-Autumn night, when the moon is biggest and shiniest, all the kids look up hoping to see Chang'e's shadow on the moon's surface. Parents tell their children that the shadows are Chang'e and her little rabbit companion who pounds herbs for her magic potion. Isn't that a cool legend?

I love the Mid-Autumn Festival because it brings my whole family together. We get to eat delicious food, carry colorful lanterns, enjoy being outside under the moon, and spend quality time with each other. I feel so happy and thankful on this night. Well, that's the Mid-Autumn Festival! It celebrates the fall harvest, gives thanks for a good year, and reminds us to cherish our family time together. I hope you can come visit China sometime and experience it for yourself. It's a beautiful and meaningful holiday. Let me know if you have any other questions!