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Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Golden autumn in China pleases with riot of colors. Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo – Xinhua News


Traditionally, Chinese people celebrate the colorful Mid-Autumn Festival at the beginning of October. On this day, it is customary to admire the full moon, gather in the family circle to remember the relatives and friends who are away from home. They launch colorful lanterns into the sky and give each other “yuebiny” (lunar gingerbread). Meanwhile, the origin of the Feast is associated with a legend.
Once in ancient China lived a skilful archer named Hou Yi and his wife Chang’e. Once on the celestial vault instead of a single sun came just ten, resulting in a terrible drought. Emperor Yao, who ruled China then, was very worried because of the suffering of his people and asked Hou Y to bring down nine suns.

The archer coped with the task. In gratitude, the emperor gave him the elixir of immortality. Besides, he advised not to take it immediately, but first spend a year in prayer. When Hou Yi was not at home, Chang’e discovered the elixir and drank it, because of what it got up into the air and flew to the moon. After death, Hou I ascended into the sun. Since then, once a year – the 15th day of the 8th month – Hou Yi and Chang’e meet.
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Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Morning at the terraced fields near Huaihua City, Hunan Province

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Paradise for photographers, Terraced fields. October 2017. Photo – Xinhua News

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

A colorful autumn in the forests near the town of Bayan-Nur in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north of China

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Apples

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Blue sky

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Corn

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Farmers of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region collected a new crop of tomatoes

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Festive swim in 100 li (50 km) along the Liujiang River

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Harvest in autumn, corn

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Housewarming in a village in Yunnan Province

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

lunar gingerbread

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Middle of autumn festival

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

More than two million chrysanthemums have blossomed in the ancient city of Kaifeng, filling it with their fragrance

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

New duty-free logistics center

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Night colors of Chinese megacities

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

One hundred young couples bound themselves by marriage on the shore of Lake Xihu in Hangzhou

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Night romance of Chinese megacities

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Parking by the landscape park Imengshan. Shandong Province

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Qinghai Province, autumn

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Roads, forests and fields of the Fengnin-Manchu Autonomous County of Hebei Province, where autumn has already fully entered its rights

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Salt pillars

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Sheep in the field

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Sunflower field

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Sunset on the Yellow River in eastern China. Jinan City District, Shandong Province

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

The hot time of harvesting and processing of the autumn harvest of Teguanjin tea

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

The play of light and shadow in the ancient town of Taierzhuang in Shandong province in eastern China

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Valley of butterflies in Yishui County, Shandong Province

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Yuego Island is a popular tourist seaside resort

Chinese colorful Mid-Autumn Festival

Yuego Island