Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival and eating moon cakes for hundreds of years. Moon cakes have the shape of a full moon on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, which contains people's love and yearning for their families.
There are many folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the one about Chang'e is the most touching. Chang'e is Hou Yi's beautiful wife. After he shot down nine suns, a goddess gave him a magic medicine to express her gratitude.
Whoever drinks it will have eternal life, and Hou Yi is going to drink it with Chang'e. But a bad man, Feng Meng, tried to steal medicine when Hou Yi was not at home. Chang e refused to give him a drink, so she finished it by herself.
She began to get so light that she flew to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night.
她开始变得特别轻,居然飞到了月亮上面。后羿非常伤心以至于他每天晚上对对着月亮大声呼唤她的名字。
One night, he found the moon bright and round, and saw his wife there. He quickly prepared her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he hoped Chang'e would come back!