Three days away from the Mid-Autumn Festival, students from Jing'an Experimental Primary School in Luoyang city of Henan province read in chorus a poem The Mid-Autumn Moon written by the famous Chinese poet Su Shi (1037-1101) on September 7 to extend their best wishes to Chen Dong, an astronaut on the Shenzhou-14 mission and whose hometown is Luoyang.
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Chen Dong was appointed as the commander of Shenzhou-14 mission on June 4, 2022. As an old saying goes, the moon viewed at home is more bright. During the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, will Chen Dong miss his hometown and family since he is 400 kilometers away from the earth? And what differences in admiring the moon from the space station?
"Keep your promise that you will come back home after finishing your mission, and since the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, I hope you can eat delicious moon cakes," said Chen Dong's schoolmate Qin Le, who is a teacher at Jing'an Experimental Primary School.
To explore the vast cosmosis an eternal dream of the Chinese people. The ancient people expressed their relentless pursuit of this dream in poetry. Now, we have been able to fly to the mysterious space. Wish Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, three astronauts on the Shenzhou-14 mission, a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (Chinese source: dahe.cn Reporter: Zhu Liwen Dong Lei Translator: Zhao Hanqing Yang Jiaxin Proofreader: Chen Xingjie)
