As the Mid-Autumn Festival was originally started from the worship of the moon god, many interesting     1     (story) and legends are told and spread     2    (explain) the purpose of the worship. The most famous one is the “Chang’e (嫦娥) Flying to the Moon”. The legend (传说) goes like this:

Chang’e’s husband Hou Yi     3    (reward) the elixir of immortality (长生不老药)     4    shooting down the extra nine suns,     5     tortured (使受煎熬) people a lot. But he would not like become immortal alone and left his wife to live in the heaven,     6     he gave the elixir to Chang’e to keep it well.     7     (lucky), one of Hou Yi’s followers got to know it. On a 15th day of the 8th lunar month when Hou Yi went out hunting, that follower sneaked into Hou Yi and Cheng E’s home and forced Chang’e to hand over the elixir. Unhelpfully, Chang’e     8    (eat) the elixir, became an immortal and uncontrollably left the earth for the heaven. As she didn’t want to leave her husband, she flew to the moon, the     9     (close) place to the earth in the heaven. Hou Yi, in hope of reunion, presented the mooncakes     10     every 15th day of the 8th lunar month since then.