I’m the Chinese language assistant,Jia. I’ve met most of you who
chose the Chinese class this semester. I hope you’ve had fun in
our class during September. Here comes the Moon Festival, which
is also known as Mid-Autumn Festival.It is held on the 15th day
of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually
around late September or early October in the Gregorian
calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of
the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest
and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the moon-
cake, of which there are many different varieties. This
year,Moon Festival is on Sept. 22nd.Tomorrow,you can try to
watch the moon and to find a rabbit which is called the Jade
Rabbit in it.In the legend, three fairy sages transformed
themselves into pitiful old men, and begged for food from a fox,
a monkey, and a hare. The fox and the monkey both had food to
give to the old men, but the hare, empty-handed, jumped into a
blazing fire to offer his own flesh