When King Dong Ming was crowned King he loved a Sorcerer and promised him promotion and set him above all the Princes that were in the land with him. One day the Sorcerer said to him - "I can take you up into the Moon," so King Dong Ming set many masons and carpenters to build a very high tower for looking at the Moon. The tower was finished on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just on the night that the moon was full. That night King Dong Ming prepared a feast in the tower and sent for the Sorcerer to come and banquet with him. When they had feasted they saw a ladder set up on the tower, the top of which reached the Moon. King Dong Ming ascended to the Moon on this great ladder. When they reached there they saw many Moon Daughters all dressed in shining black robes, and crowned with flowers. When the beautiful Moon Daughters saw two men coming in they all stood up and bowed very low before them and treated them with great kindness. Every girl played for them her Musical Instrument, such as the Psalteries, the Cymbals, the Harp, the Organ, and the Tymbal, then they sang songs in one grand concert. King Dong Ming knew nothing more, until he found himself in a bed in the tower. The King was very much surprised to find himself in bed, and without having come down the ladder into the tower, and very much surprised that the Sorcerer was not any longer with him. The King remembered all the songs which the girls had sung to him, and also all the shapes of all the Musical Instruments which they had played upon for him. He sent for a skillful man and told him to make all the Instruments according to all that he had seen in the Moon. Then King Dong Ming taught the people the use of the Instruments. Chinese Musical Instruments date from that time. Then the people began to imitate King Dong Ming on the 15th day of the 8th Moon by making a feast with their friends and their relations every year. They expect that they can see the beautiful Moon Palace, and hear the music from out this Palace if they only listen. Ai Lang then took the story teller's place and began the wonderful story of the Winter Festival. Our Country has a Festival three days before Christmas to commemorate a family meeting again. The story is as follows: Once there was a man who wished to go a long journey, so he went down to a harbor and found a boat, he paid the boat hire for it, and then he went down into the boat, just then a mighty tempest was on the sea; the boat was about to be broken and the men were very much afraid; and the sailor thinking to do something against the wind fell overboard and was drowned. Then the lone man could not bear up against the wind so he let the boat drive. The day went by, on, on the boat sailed, but no land appeared in sight. The lone man grew sadder and sadder, he neither ate or slept, but spent his time praying to his Gods. One morning he saw many birds fluttering around his masts, so that he knew the land was near.