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Mid-Autumn Mid-Autumn is one of China’s traditional festival. It celebrated on the 15th August of the lunar calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival began as a harvest festival. the festival was later given a mythological flavor with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon. According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns, and he required that the only sun should rise and set regularly. Then Hou Yi married a woman named Chang-E. Hou Yi had a student named Peng Meng who is very cunning. One day, Hou Yi went to a mountain, and he met a God. The God gave him a pill that can make him become God if he eat it. When he went home, Hou Yi gave the pill to Chang-E. Peng Meng knew the secret, and he wanted an elixir of life. One day, when Hou YI went out, he intended to steal the pill, but he was discovered by Chang-E. So Chang-E ate the pill and flew to the moon. The custom of worshipping the moon can be dated from as far as ancient Xia and Shang dynasties. In the Zhou dynasty, 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 that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration becomes popular. For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, red beans. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of the Moon Festival. In the 14th century, the eating of mooncakes at Mid-Autumn was given a new significance. The story goes that when Zh