When I was in the childhood, at the mid-autumn festival ,my mother always prepared cakes, pomelo, cosmetics ,flowers and a tub of water to worship the Moon Goddess under the moonlight. She said that a beauty who named Chang Er ,lived in the moon for thousands years and became the Moonlight Bodhisattva.
July20/1969,when Armstrong said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. " My mother watched TV and kept silent for a moment, then she said,"I wonder to worship the Moon Goddess, if the moon is just a planet and the shadow of the moon is the rocks." In my deep memory,the 1969' Moon Festival , we decided no more to worship the moon .Though that day , heavy rains and strong winds of a typhoon hit Taiwan . " Isn't the Goddess angry? " My mother said, " Don't worry. We prefer believing the scientist to the legend. " Since that year, the Moon Festival is just a day of family reunion to us.
In the ancient Chinese literary works, especial the poetries, there were lots of describing the feelings to watch the same moon when the poets were alone on the way, in the house, in the battlefield far away from their homeland thinking their family and lovers. So romantic and beautiful imagination of the moon came into the Chinese generations. The Moon Festival appeals to Chinese sentiment.
In Taiwan, we admired the full moon to enjoy the family gathering ,eating moon cakes, pomelo and drinking the tea. Recently, barbecue has become a popular family activity to celebrate the Moon Festival. This is a warm holiday.
談談中秋節
當我在孩童時期，每到中秋節，我的母親總會準備月餅，柚子，胭脂粉餅，花和一盆水在月光下祭拜月娘。她說有一位美女名叫嫦娥，住在月亮上幾千年，成了月光菩薩。
西元一九六九年七月二十日，當阿姆斯壯說：" 我的一小步是人類的一大步。" 我的母親注視著電視沈默了一會兒說："我對拜月娘感到納悶，如果月亮僅僅是一個星球，月亮上的黑影祇是岩石。" 我一直深深的記得一九六九年的中秋節，我們決定不再拜月亮。然而那一天，颱風帶來豪雨和強風重擊台灣。" 是不是月娘發怒了? "我的母親說："別擔心，我們寧願相信科學家而不是傳說。"從那一年以後，中秋節對我們僅僅是家人團圓的曰子。
在中國古典文學作品中，尤其是詩詞，有許多描寫欣賞同一個月亮的感受，當詩人孤獨的在旅途中，在屋裡，在戰場上遠離家園思念家人和所愛的人。對月亮懷有如此浪漫和美麗的想像力深深影響了世世代代的中國人。中秋節也因之觸動著中國人善感的心弦。
在台灣，我們賞月享受月圓人團圓，也吃月餅，柚子，並品茗飲茶，近年來烤肉更成了慶祝中秋節頗受歡迎的家庭活動。這是一個溫馨的節日。
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