Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival

"Chang 'e should regret stealing the elixir, the sky is blue and the night is bright. "Chang 'e is the legendary moon god. The most famous legend of Mid-Autumn Festival must be the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon. Whenever the moon is mentioned, there will be Chang 'e, and the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon has been handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. What other legends and stories do you know? Let's take a look ~

Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival 1: In the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon folklore, Chang 'e was originally the wife of Hou Yi. After Houyi shot nine suns, the Queen Mother of the West gave her the elixir of life, but Houyi refused to take it, so she gave it to Chang 'e for safekeeping. Meng Peng, a disciple of Hou Yi, coveted this elixir and forced Chang 'e to take it out. Chang 'e had no choice but to swallow it and fly to the sky. On August 15th, the moon was big and bright. Because of Hou Yi's reluctance, Chang 'e stopped on the moon nearest to the earth and lived in Guanghan Palace for a long time. After returning home, Hou Yi was heartbroken, so he put down his banquet on August 15th every year and reunited with Chang 'e and the moon.

Legend 2 of Mid-Autumn Festival: A plague occurred in Xianning, Wugang, Guangxi, and people tried their best to cure it. WU GANG, a filial young man, went to the cliff of Guabang Mountain every day to collect herbs in order to cure his mother suffering from the plague. This move moved the Bodhisattva, who instructed him to go to the Moon Palace to pick osmanthus, which could cure the plague. In order to help his mother and heal the people, the kind-hearted young people wanted to pick as many osmanthus as possible, so they shook the osmanthus tree and let it fall into a river at the foot of Guabang Mountain. However, this move violates heaven. Seeing that he was brave, filial and concerned about the people, the Jade Emperor could not bear to punish him. He told him that if he could cut down the osmanthus tree, he could bring it to the world. In this way, WU GANG escaped punishment, but as the sacred tree of the Moon Palace, osmanthus trees cannot be cut down. So WU GANG has been cutting down trees for thousands of years. Wu Gang felt homesick when he saw that the tree cutting failed, so he left a sweet-scented osmanthus on the hanging mountain every Mid-Autumn Festival night to show his homesickness. Finally, osmanthus trees spread all over Guabang Mountain, and the people used osmanthus to drive away the plague.

Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival 3: Jade Rabbit Cures Diseases

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a plague in old Beijing, and everyone was infected, so it didn't matter what medicine they took. Chang 'e was sad to see people suffering, so she sent a jade rabbit to help people eliminate disasters and treat diseases. As a result, Yutu became a girl, came to Beijing, walked around the streets and cured many patients. Jade Rabbit treats people and only borrows other people's clothes to wear. Wherever she went, she changed her costume, from a man to a woman, from a fortune teller to an oil seller, and finally traveled all over Beijing until the plague was eliminated. People cherish the kindness of Jade Rabbit. Every day on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, every family will worship her and give her delicious fruits and beans as a reward for her good luck and happiness. They also affectionately called her "male prostitute" and "grandma rabbit".

Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival 4: Mid-Autumn Uprising

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang joined forces with local resistance forces to prepare for an uprising. Liu Bowen, a strategist, came up with a brilliant plan. He took advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival to give each other wheat cakes and put a note in the wheat cakes to convey the information of the uprising. He agreed to hold an uprising at the same time on the evening of August 15. Later, the uprising was successful, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that every Mid-Autumn Festival, "moon cakes" conveying the information of that year were given to ministers as holiday cakes. Since then, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has been handed down.

Legend 5 of Mid-Autumn Festival: According to legend, Taoist priests Xuanzong, Shen and Hongdu all enjoy the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Suddenly Xuanzong put forward the idea of visiting the Moon Palace, so Shi Tianzhao did it, and the three of them began to go to Qingyun and roam the Moon Palace. However, the palace is heavily guarded and cannot enter, so it can only overlook the imperial city of Chang 'an.

This time, I suddenly heard a fairy-tale voice, beautiful and wonderful, moving! Tang Xuanzong was always familiar with melody, so he memorized it. This is precisely "this song should only be in the sky, and the world can listen to it several times!" Later, Xuanzong recalled Xian 'e's music and singing in the Moon Palace and composed and choreographed his own music. This is the famous "colorful feather" in history.

Nowadays, the legend of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon has become a must-talk topic in Mid-Autumn Festival. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's story was told to me by my grandmother when I was a child. Dear friends, apart from these five legends, what other legends and short stories about Mid-Autumn Festival do you know? Tell me in the comments section.