The Moon Festival by Wendy

The Moon Festival is a very important festival in China. We always have a family reunion. We eat the moon cakes and pomelos. There are also many stories about Moon Festival in China. They’re very interesting. I like it very much. The following are the Moon Festival’s stories.

(1) Chang E and The Moon
In antiquity China, there were ten suns in the world. It was very hot that the crops died, and there were also many people dead. At that time, there was a famous marksman. His name was Hou I. He was too angry that he shot down nine suns, so there is only one sun now. The people were very thankful, so let him be a king.
But he was a tyrant, and then everyone were very anguished.
Hou I wanted to live forever, so he could be the emperor forever. He went to Kunlun Mountain and got the medicine which could make people live forever. After, his wife Chang E knew it, she was worrying that the people would suffer forever, because she sympathized the people. So one day, she covertly ate the medicine. Her body was more and more lithe. Hou I angrily saw Chang E fly into the sky. He tried to shot Chang E down, but it was too late. Chang E flew to the moon, and been the Moon Goddess.

(2) The Moon Rabbit
In the old forest in China, there lived a rabbit, a fox, and a monkey. They were good friends. At that time, it was a war, so many people didn’t have food to eat. One day they found an old man lie on the floor. He was very hungry. The rabbit, the fox, and the monkey went to find food, but they could find anything. The rabbit wanted to sacrifice himself to become the food for the old man. When she jumped into the pot with hot oil, there was a big, warm hand to catch the rabbit. The rabbit’s goodness touched, the God, Jade Emperor. So he saved the rabbit’s life, and took it to the moon to keep the Moon Goddess Chang E company.