Moon cakes are the (popular) food during the Mid-Autumn Festival. We can see different (kind) of moon cakes in stores and in the markets as the festival comes. But do you know that people living south of the Yangtze River (follow) the tradition of eating pumpkins(南瓜) during the festival? In ancient times, poor families chose to eat pumpkins during the Mid-Autumn Festival because they couldn't to buy moon cakes. The tradition has been passed down, and it's believed that eating pumpkins on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival can bring people good (healthy). interesting story says that a very poor family, a couple with their daughter, lived at the foot of the South Mountain. The old couple were (serious) ill for lack of food. The daughter found a strange melon(瓜) one day she was working in the fields near the mountain. She brought the melon home and (cook) for her parents.
Surprisingly, her parents recovered(恢复健康) eating the melon. Because the melon was picked near the South Mountain, it was named "south melon".
