He shot nine out of them and left the last one on the sky behave its appearance.As a prize for this extraordinary feat, he was given a pill of immortality from the goddess. There lived a talented archer named Houyi. Their scorching heat withered the crops on the earth and made people unbearable. The story goes that during the time of Yao (about 2,000 B.C.), One day ten suns suddenly appear in the sky at the same time. The most popular one among the Chinese people is ‘Hou Yi Shooting the Suns'. There are many legends about this festival. Nowadays, the Mid-autumn festival has been called the top four traditional festivals in china together with the Dragon Boat day,the Tomb Sweeping day and the Spring festival. With a deep-rooted influence to those neighboring countries, it is a important festival in southeast Asia,especially to overseas Chinese.On May 20th,2006,it was added on the list of Chinese national intangible culture heritages. It has took form into a main festival which as important as spring festival when it came to Ming and Qing dynasty. The Mid-autumn Day could be dated back to the beginning of Tang dynasty,and became prevalent in the Song dynasty. The festival represents the unity and leisure of the people, as well as the harvest of the nature. On this day, the moon is believed to be the brightest and biggest in the whole year. The festival is celebrated at the 15th day of the eighth lunar month in China.
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