[音频]The fifteenth day of the lunar month is the Mid-autumn Festival, a celebration that focuses on the moon. Enjoying the beauty of the1on this day has been a long standing tradition Chinese custom for centuries.The West Lake “Three Pools Mirroring the Moon” in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, is a great 2to appreciate the full moon. There are three hollow stone towers in the center of the West Lake. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival the lights in the tower reflects fifteen “moon” across the surface of the water around the towers. The true moon and its reflected counterparts are difficult to 3giving rise to the name “Three Pools Mirroring the Moon”. The Chinese loved the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival so much and even printed the picture of the “Three Pools Mirroring the Moon” on the back of one yuan 4.According to the legend, in ancient times there were ten suns in the sky simultaneously and the strong exposure and 5hot temperature made people’s lives a misery. A hero named Houyi came along, 6nine suns and saved the world. To reward his bravery, the Queen Mother gave him an elixir as a reward. Chang’e, Houyi’s wife drank the elixir 7and became immortal. Since immortals cannot remain in a mortal realm, she had to leave the earth, ascended to the moon and could only watch the human world from afar.China’s “Chang’e Moon Exploration Project” is 8this story. On Jan.3, 2019 Chang’e detector No. 4 successfully landed on the moon 9the world’s first close-range image of the dark side of the moon.Aside from Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most important festival symbolizing 10. The roundness of the full moon expresses people’s 11a wholesome happy family. Eating moon cakes is an important custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival.Due to the different diet habits in different regions, moon cakes vary in12. Traditional flavors include fillings of five kernel, egg yolk, jujube paste and bean paste. Now there are new flavors like ice cream and durian. Although the taste of moon cake is changing, the symbolic meaning of the full moon remains13 and the Chinese custom of eating moon cake and14 reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival will never fade away. After a short get-together during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival, a festival of renewal growth and cherishing the past is just15 , led by the old and the wise.