On every full moon，the girl would burned incenses and wax candles to worship the moon. People believed that there was a god lived in the moon that made the moon shine. Girls who wanted to be a beauty and have a handsome husband should worship the moon. One day，the full moon of the eighth month，the king brought three herbs pills to show her. “This is from the priest of the palace. If I eat them up，I can live forever.”He exclaimed. This was the first time the girl stuffs he brought. He continued，“If you and I both take one，we will both live forever. No one can take you away from me！”
Because the king afraid of the pills would have side effects. He forced the girl to take the pill first. If nothing wrong with her after taking the pill，he would take it immediately. However，the girl recognized that if she took all three of them，the king would left her eventually. Therefore，the first time，she spoke to the king，“Let me have a look of the pills first. Otherwise，I will not try at all.”
The king surprisingly the girl talked to him. So，he handed the pills to the girl. She did not say anything but eat all of them. The king was extremely angry. He wanted to kill her. At this moment，the girl started to fly. She could fly because of the intake of the pills. The king could not catch her，but watched her flew toward the moon and disappeared. After that，people believed that there was a beautiful girl stay in the moon with a little old man and a bunny. The old man was believed to be the god inside the moon and the bunny was his pet. Day after day，Chinese believed that there were people lived in the moon. Their movement made the dark spot when we looked up to the moon. People used to worship the girl to glorify her chastity. So，on every full moon of the mid-Autumn became a festival in order to memorize her.
About Moon Cakes
There is this story about the moon-cake. During the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon caked was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, a moon cake is eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake.For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival.Most of Chinese people like drinking tea when they eat moon cake, because many kinds of moon cake is very greasy, the tea has the effect that can resolve greasy.
Traditional Chinese tea set
New tea set of LKK
LKK is committed to carry forward the Chinese traditional culture, LKK hopes to use modern and globalization language to express traditional Chinese culture and conception. This new tea set was designed and producted by LKK.
