Dessert

21.09.2021_Dessert

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Published: September 21st, 2021,
Last updated: September 21st, 2021

These two children from Lincheng baked moon cakes for the Chinese Moon Festival. With sweet or savory fillings, they are eaten as dessert when the families watch the full moon together. One legend is not only about love, but also about climate change: according to this legend, a terrible threat terrified the world. Ten suns had appeared in the sky and threatened to dry up the earth. But the archer Hou Yi managed to shoot down nine of these suns with his bow and arrow. In return, he received an immortality potion, but his girlfriend Chang Er tasted it without permission and was banished to the moon forever. Only once a year, at the Moon Festival, are the lovers allowed to meet again.

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