회사 소식 The Mid-autumn festival approaching, Happy Mid autumn festival to you.

The Mid-autumn festival approaching, Happy Mid autumn festival to you.

Mid Autumn Festival, also know as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by chinese and vietnamese people.The moon festival celebrated in August 15 of the lunar calendar. Is one of the most traditional of Chinese holiday. It is several hundred years old and many beautiful tales about it have been handed down from generation to generation.

For example: Tang Dynasty myth holds that the Earth once had 10 suns circling it. One day all 10 suns appeared at once, scorching the planet with their heat. It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hou Yi that the Earth was saved. He shot down all but one of the suns. As his reward, the Heavenly Queen Mother gave Hou Yi the Elixir of Immortality, but she warned him that he must use it wisely. Hou Yi ignored her advice and, corrupted by fame and fortune, became a tyrannical leader. Chang-Er, his beautiful wife, could no longer stand by and watch him abuse his power so she stole his Elixir and fled to the moon to escape his angry wrath. And thus began the legend of the beautiful woman in the moon, the Moon Fairy.

On this day we eat a special kind of pastry called"Moon cake". It represents the moon and also means family reunion. Moon cake
There are additional cultural or regional customs,some of customs as follows:
1、eating moon cakes.
2、Carrying brightly lit lanterns.
3、Fire dragon dance.
4、Moon rabbit is a traditional icon.

Wishing you have a happy Mid Autumn Festival, one more round full moon.