Special - Mid-Autumn: Fly Me to the Moon

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A brief history of Mid-Autumn Festival, and the tale of Hou Yi the Archer & the Ten Suns, and Chang’e & the Moon In other words, please be trueIn other words, I love you. Sources:Barlett, Scarlett. The Mythology Bible: The Definitive Guide to Legendary Tales.Masaka, Mori. “Restoring the ‘Epic of Hou Yi’” in Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 52, no. 5.Yang, Lihui, Demin An, and Jessica Anderson Turner. Handbook of Chinese Mythology. (initially broadcast in 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Calling all Little Wildlife Explorers,
0:07.3	Plainmobile is now in Happy Meal.
0:09.4	Look, is that a seal?
0:11.0	And a sea turtle?
0:12.2	They've been around for millions of years,
0:14.2	just like me.
0:15.1	Which will your little ones discover?
0:17.2	Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.
0:20.7	Until the 14th of October from 11
0:22.2	a.m. Playmobile comprised toys only subject to availability. Hello and welcome to the
0:32.9	history of China.
0:40.2	Holiday special for mid-autom.
0:42.2	Fly me to the moon.
0:49.8	Happy September 10th, 2020, a special day this year, because it marked one of the major Chinese and East Asian holidays.
0:52.2	Mid-Aumn Festival, known as Zhongxio Jai in Chinese,
0:55.7	Tzu-Suk in Korea, Tsukumi in Japan, Tets Chung-Tu in Vietnam, and by many other names all over the
1:02.3	world.
1:03.4	It is a lunar holiday celebrating the 8th full moon of the Chinese Lunar Cellar Calendar, which
1:08.8	means that it is variably held between mid-September,
1:12.3	as in this year, and as late as early October.
1:15.4	What is the purpose of this holiday?
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