文档介绍：In this assembly we are looking at the second most important holiday in the traditional Chinese calendar after Chinese New Year. It is called the Mid-Autumn Festival but is also monly called the Moon Festival.
I think you will all remember that Chinese New Year falls on a different day each year because it uses the old, traditional calendar based on the moon, not the sun. The
Mid-Autumn Festival is the same, and this year it falls on 8th September, the 15th day of the 8th lunar is an old story connected with the Moon Festival about Hòu Yì, famous for his skill with a bow and arrow, and his beautiful wife Cháng É.
One day, instead of just one sun rising in the morning, ten suns appeared and the earth began to burn under their heat. People couldn’t bear it ,the crops and plants were dying The people called on Hòu Yì to do somethingto save them. Hòu Yì took his great bow with his surperhuman strength ,he shot down nine of the suns, leaving just one again, as there should be Later the emperor rewarded HouYi with a magic pill for a long áng É was curious about what was in the box andone day opened it and swallowed the pill. Immediately her body became light as air and flew out of the up into the sky until she reached the moon. HòuYì saw