happy mid autumn day

Today is Mid autumn day. Here is something a friend of mine wrote to explain the meaning of this day:

Happy Mid-autumn Day. (中秋节快乐 zhong qiu jie kuai le) Today is Mid-autumn Day. This holiday is like Thanks Giving Day in the United States. Chinese eat moon cake and family will get together, it’s kind of round cake with nuts, egg or meat inside. But to tell the truth, not many Chinese like to eat. It has a legend behind this festival and moon cake. Long long ago, there is a man called Hou Yi. He is a strong and powerful man. At that time, there are nine suns in the sky. People suffer from heat and singe. There is nothing God and goddess in heaven can do. Only Hou Yi can rescue people. He has a magic bow and many magic arrows. With his great power, he shoots nine suns down, leaving only one in the sky to lighten the earth. Chang'e, his wife is a very beautiful woman. She is afraid to die and hopes to be immortal. Hou Yi, cannot refuse her beseech, asks for the immortal medicine from the goddess. Considering his contribution to the earth, the goddess gives him two. Chang'e is too greedy to share the medicine with Hou Yi, takes the two together. Unexpectedly, she not only becomes immortal but also becomes a goddess living in the heaven. However, she is too shame to live with other goddesses in heaven, and decides to live on the moon. She feels so lonely there and misses Hou Yi very much. She feels regretted and wants to say sorry to Hou Yi. She makes a kind of cake to show her sorry and her missing to Hou Yi. People call it moon cake. Of course, nowadays, mid-autumn day do not have the same meaning. Now, it’s a time, when family members get together and have dinner. After that, they will go to the yard eat moon cake, have a nice talk, of course with a beautiful and bright moon in the sky, if the weather is fine.