After hearing that Chang E became a goddess, folk people also offered sacrifices to Chang E to pray for peace and good luck. He took the food liked by Chang E to an altar and offered it as a sacrifice for her. He was amazed to see a figure which looked just like his wife appeared in the Moon. On realizing what happened to his wife, Hou Yi was so grieved that he shouted Chang E’s name to the sky. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine and so on. It originated from the worship of celestial phenomena in ancient times. Chang E’s great love for her husband drew her towards the Moon, which is the nearest place to the earth on the heaven. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The moment she drank it, she flew out of the window and up into the sky. Knowing that she could not win, she took out the elixir and swallowed it immediately. Unfortunately, Peng Meng secretly saw Hou Yi give the potion to his wife and three days later, while Hou Yi was out hunting, Peng Meng rushed into the backyard and demanded that Chang E hand over the elixir. Instead of drinking the potion himself, Hou Yi took it home and presented it to Chang E to keep. Wangmu presented him an elixir which, if took, would cause him to ascend immediately to heaven and become a god/goddess. One day, Hou Yi came upon Wangmu (the queen of heaven) on the way to meet his old friend. Later, Hou Yi married a beautiful and kind-hearted woman named Chang E and lived a happy life. On hearing of this amazing feat and the hero who performed it, people came from far and wide to learn from him. It was the hero Hou Yi, who, owing to his great strength, shot down nine of the ten suns. It is said that in ancient times, ten suns existed and the extreme heat made people’s lives very difficult. The story of Chang E is the most widely accepted tale regarding the moon and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chinas Mid-Autumn Day is a traditional festival that falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar.
Then the custom was accepted by the masses and became more and more popular over time. In ancient China, most emperors worshiped the moon annually. The early form of the Mid-Autumn Festival was derived from the custom of moon worship during the Zhou Dynasty over 3,000 years ago.
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