Eating mooncakes There are two legends about the tradition of eating mooncakes. One story happened in tang dynasty.It was said that there were ten suns around the earth. One day they were shining in the sky at the same time,and the world would be scorched by the great heat. But at least,thanks to a marksman named Houyi he shot down the nine suns so that the earths would be retention. In order to award Hoyi, Queen Mother gave Hoyi one kind of pills which named elixir that can make one person never die .But he was warned he must use it in a right way. However Hoyi didn't care about Queen Mother's warning, He was gone to his head by the fame, and become a tyrant. Hoyi's beautiful wife, Chang'er, thought she couldn't do nothing about his atrocity, so she stole his elixir, and flown to the moon to avoid Hoyi's rage. Since then there was a legend that a beautiful female celestial named Chang'er who living in the moon . 关于吃月饼这个传统的来历有两个传说。一个是唐朝的神话故事，说的是当时地球被10个太阳包围着。有一天10个太阳同时出现在天空中，巨大的热量几乎把地球烤焦了。多亏一位名叫后羿的神箭手射下了9个太阳，地球才被保住。为了奖励后羿，王母娘娘赐给后羿一种长生不老药，但是王母警告他必须正当使用。然而后羿没有理会王母娘娘的警告，他被名利冲昏了头脑，变成了一个暴君。后羿美丽的妻子嫦娥对他的暴行再也不能袖手旁观，于是她偷走了后羿的长生不老药，飞到月亮上逃避后羿的狂怒。从此就有了关于月宫仙子嫦娥，这个月亮上的美丽女人的传说。 Thank for your help, I am not good at English, But I think if I don't practice it, I will never good at English.