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nmj is not a bear. but he could be

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i am not immune to japanese audio drama nmj

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notre sang et nos pensées

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misc

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Mid-Autumn Festival 2020! 中秋节!

General Info:

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also called the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a holiday celebrated in Eastern Asian to honor the moon and the harvest of the fall season. This holiday is comparable to Thanksgiving in the western world, and is considered the second most important holiday in China (with first being Chinese New Year).

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar; this year, it falls on Thursday, October 1st!

When did this holiday start?

This holiday started 3,000 years ago in the Shang Dynasty. The emperor of China would worship the moon and thank it for the plentiful harvest it brought in the fall. Regular people would thank each other for their hard work and eat big meals together. It is also believed that eating around a round table under the moon would bring good luck. People worship the moon because it is thought that the moon is biggest and closest around this time.

How do people celebrate?

People celebrate this festival by visiting their families, eating large meals, worshiping the moon, lighting and releasing lanterns into the sky, and eating the traditional food called Mooncake.

Many people nowadays dress in Traditional Chinese Hanfu to look like the goddess Chang’E and the jade bunny. Children often try to find Chang’e’s face (and the bunny) in the moon because they believe she really lives on the moon. 

What is a Mooncake?

Mooncakes are Traditional Chinese pastries. There are many different flavors - for example: some are sweet, salty, plain, have egg in them, have flowers in them, etc. 

Mooncakes are also round as it symbolizes happiness and togetherness.

People also eat things like duck, pumpkin, and wine.

What is the story behind the Mid-Autumn Festival? Who is the lady in the moon?

At one point, there were 10 suns in the sky. Because there were so many, Earth was hot and dry, and the suns were burning all of the plants and killing many people.

However, Hou Yi, a skilled archer, shot down nine of the suns, saving the Earth. To congratulate Hou Yi, the Queen of the West gave him a potion that would make him immortal. Though Hou Yi wanted to become immortal, he didn’t want to leave his wife, Chang’e, so he gave the potion to Chang’e and told her to keep it safe.

After shooting down the suns, Hou Yi became a teacher and taught children archery, however, one of his students, Pang Meng, was evil and wanted to drink Hou Yi’s immortality potion.

Pang Meng faked being sick and missed Hou Yi’s class to go to Chang’e and steal the potion. Chang’e did not want to give him the potion, so she drank it instead. 

Because it was an immortality potion, the potion made Chang’e fly higher and higher into the heavens and onto the moon. She was immortal though she was stuck on the moon and could not see her husband, Hou Yi.

Hou Yi was very sad when he heard about this. He put a round table under the moon with food offerings on it in hopes to get her to come back down, but she couldn’t.

Since then, people have been worshiping the moon.

Who is the bunny that lives with the Chang’e on the moon?

One of heaven’s emperors wanted to test a monkey’s, fox’s, and rabbit’s virtue. He wanted the animals to work together to find food for him. Instead, the animals split up - the monkey came back with food, the fox came back with food, but the rabbit did not.

The emperor was upset that they didn’t work together. He sent the animals away once again to go find food, but this time, the rabbit wanted help finding firewood so that she could cook some food for the emperor.

The three animals came back with firewood and started a fire. The rabbit, knowing she didn’t bring back food the first time, apologized to the emperor for not fulfilling his wishes, and jumped into the fire to sacrifice herself to the emperor as she said, “Eat me, please!”

The emperor was so touched by the rabbit’s actions that he picked up her bones and sent her to the moon palace so that people can see her and honor her everyday.

How to wish someone a happy mid-autumn festival:

中秋快乐 (zhōng qiū kuài lè) - Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Notes:

1. Chang’e and the rabbit combination is very iconic in China.

2. Chang’e is known for her beauty - even seen as the most beautiful woman in the world.

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