今年八月十五能看到月亮么?话说月球上有木有嫦娥?

Mid-Autumn Festival
The 15th day of the 8th lunar month
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon".
This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates（石榴）, melons, oranges and pomelos（柚子） might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro（芋头）and water caltrope（菱角）, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds（西瓜子）, lotus seeds（莲籽）, almonds（杏仁）, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard（猪油）. A golden yolk（蛋黄） from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary（闰月的） moon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority nationalities. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back as far as the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties (2000 B.C.-1066 B.C.). In the Zhou Dynasty(1066 B.C.-221 B.C.), people hold ceremonies to greet winter and worship the moon whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival sets in. It becomes very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty(618-907 A.D.) that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 A.D.), however, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it becomes dark, they look up at the full silver moon or go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival. Since the Ming (1368-1644 A.D. ) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911A.D.), the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration becomes unprecedented popular. Together with the celebration there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense（熏香）, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However, the custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them.
Moon Cakes
There is this story about the moon-cake. during the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake.
For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates（枣子）, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.
Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival

春节的时候,虽然恰逢农闲,但总感觉每年都是忙忙碌碌的.惟独中秋,给人一种特别的欣喜,一种心境的安歇,一种特别的想往.后来想起来,似乎是心绪不同使然.
我喜欢中秋的意境.那既是收获的积蓄,又是收获的开端.说她是积蓄,是由于夏收才过不多时候.说她是开端,是因为秋天迈着她硕果累累的脚步迎面而来,融着人内心即将收获的欣喜.我想惟有经历过乡村生活体验的人,才会有这种情感、心境和内心深切的感受.
我喜欢中秋的意境.圆圆的月光之下,圆圆的月饼,苹果熟了,鸭梨、葡萄等水果也都上了市.月光下,人们品尝着节日的美食,谈论收获的话题.一边赏月,一边思念身处异乡的亲人.实所谓：“每逢佳节备思亲”.
我喜欢中秋的意境.妈妈每年都要亲手给我们做月饼吃.妈妈做的月饼外观象大饼,很厚实,新鲜的面,新鲜的馅.不管是蒸出来的,还是烙出来的,上面都有用农家的大碗所刻画出来的月的图案,其中又有桂花雕印出的花瓣.馅,也很特别,主料是红塘,里面放些芝麻、清红丝,果仁、葡萄干什么的.新做出的月饼,蒸的,柔软可口,适合老年人；烙的,外焦里嫩,年轻人情有独钟.你看,新端上来的月饼,热气腾腾,一股清香味道儿扑面而来,真令人垂涎欲滴!
多少年过去了,虽然现在市场上的月饼琳琅满目,各种瓜果一应俱全,但是我还是喜欢吃妈妈做的月饼.月饼的花纹虽然没有太多变化,但是花纹总是那么的清晰,那么均匀,那么好看.所以一赶上中秋过节回家,总要吃上两大块儿,觉得好香、好甜…….