嫦娥奔月英文版.docx

Our topic is Mid-autumn day. To talk about the origination, it is really a long story and I have to omit some in sig nifica nt plots duri ng my speak ing. 嫦娥奔月 The story should beg in with Houyi shooti ng dow n the suns. Long long time ago, Houyi and Chan ger were known as a happy couple in heave n and were deeply in love with each other. After Houyi shooting down the suns, the Jade Emperor got so furious that he ordered Houyi, together with Chan ger, to stay at the earth forever and n ever retur n to the heave n. Since the n, they suffered from ill ness and death as ordinary huma n bein gs. As times went by, Chan ger was terrified to see wrin kles around her face and so she asked Houyi to find some way to stop being agi ng. Houyi heard that there lived a Goddess on the top of Kunlun Mountain, who had a pill of immortality, so he went and begged for it. Fortunately , the Goddess gave him one pill and told Hou Yi that if one pers on took the pill he would asce nd to Heaven, but if he cut the pill into two halves and shared it with another person, they could only live forever. Also, the pill had to be take n on the 15th ni ght of the eighth mon th whe n the moon was fullest. Hou Yi went home to Chang Er. And they decided to divide the pill and take it at the proper time. Three days before the fullest moon, Hou Yi heard of another pill on Tianshan mountain, which could make wome n always young and beautiful. For his wife, Hou Yi promised Chan ger to get the won derful pill back in three days. But on the 15th of the eighth mon th, Chang Er waited and later grew impatie nt, She was in formed by a fraud that Houyi went for ano ther woma n and would n ever come back. Chan ger was filled with sorrow and swallowed the whole pill. At once she felt her body becoming lighter, rising upwards towards the sky. At this moment Hou Yi arrived back with another pill and saw Chang Er asce nding faster and faster. The gods in heave n despised Chang Er because she had aba ndoned her hus