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As an important Chinese holiday, the Mid-Autumn Holiday falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, usually in October according to Gregorian calendar. In ancient China, emperors followed the rite of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and to the moon in autumn, while in modern times, people enjoy the full, bright moon on that day, worship it and express their thoughts and feelings under it. In the literary history of China, many poets penned praise to the pure moon of mid-autumn night and gave words to their delicate feelings. They like Mid-autumn, maybe because the moonlight is clear, refreshed and liquid, or because the night sky is vast and transparently clear and limpid, their works are always the easiest cause of sympathetic response with the heroic temperament and noble character. Here we would like to share a famous and popular poem about the moon and the moon festival. On this occasion, ACTC wish everyone a happy mid-autumn festival! Bright moon, when was your birth? Rounding the red pavilion, (source of the poem: http://www.chinakongzi.com/2550/eng/literature3.htm)
Wine cup in hand, I ask the deep blue sky;
Not knowing what year it is tonight
In those celestial palaces on high. I long to fly back one the wind,
Yet dread those crystal towers, those courts of jade,
Freezing to death among those icy heights!
Instead I rise to dance with my pale shadow;
Better off, after all, in the world of men.
Stooping to look through gauze windows,
She shines on the sleepless.
The moon should know no sadness;
Why, then, is she always full when dear ones are parted?
For men the grief of parting, joy of reunion,
Just as the moon wanes and waxes, is bright or dim:
Always some flaw-and so it has been since of old.
My one wish for you, is long life
And a share in this loveliness far, far away!