Culture

I LOVE being Asian.

One of the many reasons is:

 Yuebing or Mooncake (in English)

Chinese Mooncake Festival is an mid autumn festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the lunar calendar and it fall around month of Aug. The Chinese will eat mooncake and carry lantern to celebrate Chinese mooncake festival. 

So legend has is ... 

Once upon a time, there were ten suns surrounded the earth which caused drought and suffering to human. One day the Queen of Heaven ordered Hou Yi a famous archery to save the earth. He managed to use his arrowed to shoot down nine of the suns. The Queen of Heaven rewarded Hou Yi the elixir of life for his heroic deed. However, Hou Yi turned to become very evil. Chang Er his wife drank the elixir of life in order to save the people from her husband's tyrannical rule. After drinking the elixir of life she felt her body was very light and flew to the moon. Hou Yi love his wife so much that he never shoot down the moon and Chang Er live at the moon forever.