中秋节是中国历法的几个最重要的假期之一。随同庆祝的活动，多样地区文化和习俗，如：吃月饼，牵线搭桥，携带灯火通明的灯笼，烧香，火龙舞，月亮兔是一个传统的图标。
庆祝中秋节节是紧密联系在一起的后羿和嫦娥，月亮女神的不朽的传奇。相传在远古时代的射日英雄后羿娶了嫦娥，并成为帝王，可是他愈来愈暴戾，多番施行恶政，成了大暴君。有一天，后羿从王母娘娘的手中求得到一包不死药，只要吃了不死药，就能长生不老。嫦娥知道後为拯救苍生免受后羿永远的统治，就把不死药全部吞下，然後变成了仙女，往月宫飞去。百姓们得知嫦娥奔月成仙後，纷纷在月下摆设香案，向嫦娥祈求平安吉祥，由此便逐渐形成了中秋节拜月的风俗。
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as: Eating mooncakes, Matchmaking, Carrying brightly lit lanterns, Burning incense, Fire Dragon Dances.
Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival is strongly associated with the legend of Houyi and Chang'e, the Moon Goddess of Immortality. According to legend, in ancient times, Shooting hero Hou Yi married Chang'e, and became the emperor, but his increasingly violent, repeated the purposes of bad governance, has become a big tyrant. One day, Hou Yi from the hands of the Queen Mother and a parcel of elixir, as long as you eat elixir, you can live forever. Chang'e to know in order to save the common people from Hou Yi's rule forever, she swallow all the elixir, and then turned into a fairy, flew to the moon. People have learned that Chang'e flying to the moon become immortal, have the furnishings incense table to pray under the moon for peace good luck to the Chang-e, which they gradually formed the Mid-Autumn Festival worship customs.
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