中秋節(jié)是中國歷法的幾個最重要的假期之一.隨同慶祝的活動,多樣地區(qū)文化和習(xí)俗,如：吃月餅,牽線搭橋,攜帶燈火通明的燈籠,燒香,火龍舞,月亮兔是一個傳統(tǒng)的圖標.慶祝中秋節(jié)節(jié)是緊密聯(lián)系在一起的后羿和嫦娥,月亮女神的不朽的傳奇.相傳在遠古時代的射日英雄后羿娶了嫦娥,并成為帝王,可是他愈來愈暴戾,多番施行惡政,成了大暴君.有一天,后羿從王母娘娘的手中求得到一包不死藥,只要吃了不死藥,就能長生不老.嫦娥知道後為拯救蒼生免受后羿永遠的統(tǒng)治,就把不死藥全部吞下,然後變成了仙女,往月宮飛去.百姓們得知嫦娥奔月成仙後,紛紛在月下擺設(shè)香案,向嫦娥祈求平安吉祥,由此便逐漸形成了中秋節(jié)拜月的風(fēng)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.