Mid Autumn Festival story and how Chinese celebrate it 

Mid-autumn festival is one of my favorite festivals, especially when I was young, we all went to grandama's house, played games with brothers and sisters at the courtyard, our parents busied to prepare dinner, we ate sweet moon cakes together under the moonlight , very pleasant memory!

Is it weird that i want to celebrate this even though im not chinese? It's just so pretty with all the cakes and lanterns and even the story, and i really like that you share a big meal with loved ones.

I've typed a transcript of the video. Hope it will help teachers who want to share this video with their students: As the legend goes...In the distant past, there was a beautiful woman called Chang'e. Her husband Hou Yi was a brilliant archer. At that time, there were ten suns in the sky. And the people on earth were living in the blistering heat. To save the earth, Hou Yi used his bow and arrow to shoot down nine of the suns. Hou Yi was respected as the national hero and receive an elixir of immortality as a reward for saving the people from the heat of multiple suns. However, the elixir had only enough for one person, and both of them didn't want to leave each other. But one day, one of Hou Yi's students tried to seize the elixir when he wasn't at home. In order to protect the elixir from thieves, Chang'e took the magic elixir of immortality. Then she flew to the moon and became the moon goddess, leaving her husband behind. Alone on earth, Hou Yi missed his wife so much that he made an offering to the moon and tried to find the shape of Chang'e in the moon. To remember Chang'e, Chinese people worship the moon by eating fruits and moon-shaped desserts called mooncakes. This is the legend of the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also called the "the Moon Festival" Nowadays, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also a harvest festival has become a family holiday like Thanksgiving. Chinese people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by having a large dinner with family, worshiping the moon with gifts, traveling, viewing lanterns shows, eating various desserts and releasing flying lanterns to pray for their happiness and happiness of their families.

For the first time I was invited to celebrate this festival with co workers and I honestly didn't know what this festival was all about but I'm glad I've gained knowledge of it. It's a really great tale.

Today my Chinese teacher showed this to us today at school and now I love this video

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. Families would love to have dinner together and travel to some nearby areas to enjoy a 3-day holiday.

I like that rabbit....so innocent....

This story was very nice to hear also it was easy to understand!

My Chinese teacher showed this video to us and I'm so excited for the Mid Autumn Festival 🤩

A+ video! Awesome explanation and animation, LOVE IT!

The rabbit is so cute and the background music is so beautiful. I love this beautiful festival. It is a family reunion day!

Happy Mid-autumn Festival. Love the interesting story.

The video is awesome! The mooncakes look soooo delicious!

Thank you so much for such detailed video,now i do know more about this Chinese festival,which is celebrated in Southeast Asia as well.

literally my favourite festival to celebrate.

Thanks this video helped me out alot for my speech for mid autumn festival.

Interesting story! Thank you !

Thank you for the video!

Awesome video! The characters are so elegant-looking!

This is a great and helpful video. Thank you.

I love this

The story of Houyi and Chang’e is one of the world’s greatest mythologies. In full, it is easily comparable with anything from Greek or Rome.

Teacher asked me to watch it, now I love it

Great video!!!

🤓 How well, everything was explained in this video. I really like. Thank you 😊 In my opinion, it must be quite enjoyable and amazing celebration. Think that everyone gathers with their families and friends then they watch the moon lights as well as eating the moon cakes 🥮 so cute 🌸🤓

Mid-autumn festival, time to eat mooncakes yeah~

tks video. Mid Autum Covid 19 Festival, love is all around

Woah I never knew this was a festival this is a wonderful story

Thank you for video

Wow really very beautiful festival I love it ❤❤

I’m participating in a fashion show for the moon festival showing the different era/dynasty fashion/clothing! :D

Happy Mid Autumn!

4 years later, it’s almost there. In 2 days! I’m excited, I’m going to check the moon that night.

She’s voice is amazing

Omg I saw the movie “over the moon” and it was so good!

Hi, i really love your video about Chinese Mid-autumn festival. It is both beautiful and educational. Since the Mid-autumn festival is coming, I was wondering if it's okay to do screenshots from your video and make it into a powerpoint story? It will only be showed to my elementary school students in class. (and of course I'll put this video link and and your channel link at the end of the story as attributes )

Thanks

I used this as a guide for my classmates for a school assignment!

"then she flew to the moon and became the moon goddess" Me: Okay... leaving her husband behind" Me: WHAT THE FU-. LOL SHE SAVAGE

Nice video!

I really like mid autumn festival 🥮 and my favourite mooncake

I gain at least 2kg every Mid-Autumn Festival! A GRRRRAAAATE reason to eat moon cakes and fruits!

I know about chang'e after i read my sister book around 2005. I'm a Muslim and i love reading other races stories. Luckily i can eat halal mooncake. I really want to eat mooncake since little girl. I also watched Netflix Over The Moon. 😍

I may not be early but I already know this story, so we’ll done!

The Mid Autumn Festival and the ancient legend is a great way to remember our Chinese culture. Even if you aren't Chinese you can celebrate another culture. 😀

happy mid autumn festival

l love this video

very nice

I'm making a fan made music video for a song about chang'e and was wondering if I could please use some of this footage?

happy mooncake festival ya'll

Over the Moon anyone?

Hello, thank you for sharing. This is amazing! Was wondering can I share this video at an internal corporate event presenting Moon-Festival? Do I have your permission to do so? Thank you so much!

Omg my teacher show me this too today!!

Happy mid Autumn festival everyone!! 🌕🧧🧧

So much info missing from this video. Would like to see a longer more in-depth version that takes into account the different versions of the same story

The background music is so good, can I get the name of it, please?

Hi @chinahighlights, I want to ask permission to use your video. can I use the video on my channel?

Good sharing

Hi, may I reuse this video to be added to one of my videos on my channel?🙏 I would give credit to you in my video and in the description. Thank you in advance!😊

Happy Mid autumn festival day , tomorrow is mid autumn , I am so excited, and I have to make a video about a towel to make a moon cake , but it is hard , can you make a video about moon cake with towel , please

Happy moon-cake day, eveyrone.

I just found this video and I have a feeling it’s what Tony watched 😆

Like it 🙂 👍 ✨️ 💓

Time for family reunion dinner!

chang e is the lady in the moon

An interesting Mid Autumn Festival story.

It's also my birthday 😃 (15th day of the eighth lunar month)

Today this was in my activitys

Today we learn this at school at lote hi everyone

whoever sees this, God bless you and have a wonderful day!

I heared this in the movie called over the moon and there is chang'e there

*Is it wrong that I first heard about the mooncake from babybus?*

Same as Vietnam too!

Others:its mid autumn festival , let's eat mooncakes!!! Me : its Harvest festival!!! Let's Harvest some farmable trees!!!! Guess what game i play

What apps did you use ?

whats the different between the mid autumn festival and lunar new year also what is the 8 of the lunar month? im young ish and 25% chinese learning about my culture im a little confused

Over the moon guys??

I love Chinese

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Over the moon

Now we are at home

exact same blue colour hue

What is the name of the song at the beginning of the video?

Is there a chinese drama about chang'e? Can you please suggest. Thanks in advance 😊

I love this video

I have to teach my class about the moon festival because my teacher forgot about and I am the only person that knows the moon festival the most and you forget about the jade rabbit

I like moon cake festivel i love lanter and mooncake

Came here from Mooncakes graphic novel❤️

Chang'e had archer husband who shot down 9 suns to save earth. He was then given the elixir of immortality as a reward. Neither he nor Chang'e wanted to consume it because they wanted to stay together. A thief came and threatened Chang'e which forced her to consume to elixir transforming her into the mood goddess. Hou'yi made offerings to the moon in an attempt to see her once again.

Movie my favorite over the moon

can I copy your video

0:59 what's up with the dramatic pause? I thought the video froze... That was a weird transition

I learned about this from Netflix's "over the moon" movie

My wife turned into the moon. That’s rough buddy.

I’ve heard of this story before over the moon movie came

I got homework to do so I watched this video

Beautiful presentation.

This reminds me of sokka and yue

Eating mooncakes Me: they eating Chang e

Yeah this is a movie now...