Mid - Autumn Festival According to legend, in ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky, they destroyed the crops and the people were very sad. A hero named Hoy shot down nine suns and ordained when the the last sun would rise and fall for all time, and people all respected him. God gave him medicine that could keep him alive. The hero loved his wife very much and gave the medicine to her, however, she had to eat it when a bad man wanted to take it from her. On the moon palace, there is a person who is always hacking the cinnamon. However, the m agical cinnamon can heal its own wounds. It was said that the man is Wu Gang, he d id something wrong so that he had to do this day after day. Mid - Autumn in Korea is v ery different from that in China, but it is influenced by Chinese culture.