What does the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon mean?

The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon means: Chang 'e pounced on the moon. This is a myth.

According to legend, in ancient times, there were ten days in the sky at the same time, the crops died in the sun and the people were poor. A hero named Hou Yi has infinite power. He sympathized with the suffering people, climbed to the top of Kunlun Mountain, made full use of his divine power, drew his bow, shot down more than nine suns in one breath, and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time for the benefit of the people.

Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people. He married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. Besides hunting, Hou Yi spends all his time with his wife, and people envy this beautiful and loving couple. Many people with lofty ideals came here to study as teachers, and Meng Peng with ulterior motives joined in.

One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek truth. He happened to meet the Queen Mother passing by and asked her for a bag of elixir. It is said that taking this medicine can instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily give the elixir to Chang 'e. Chang 'e hid the medicine in the dresser's treasure chest, but the villain Meng Peng saw it. He wants to steal the elixir to make himself immortal.

Three days later, Hou Yi led his entourage out hunting, while Meng Peng with ulterior motives pretended to be ill. Shortly after Hou Yi led the crowd to leave, Meng Peng broke into the backyard of the back room with a sword in his hand, threatening Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Meng Peng. In times of crisis, she made a decisive decision, turned around and opened the treasure chest, took out the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp.

Chang 'e swallowed the medicine and immediately floated off the ground, rushed out of the window and flew into the sky. Because Chang 'e was worried about her husband, she flew to the nearest moon and became a fairy.

In the evening, when Hou Yi came home, the maids cried and told what happened during the day. Hou Yi was surprised and angry, and drew his sword to kill the villain. Meng Peng escaped early. Angry and heartbroken, Hou Yi looked up at the night sky and shouted the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that today's moon is particularly bright and bright, and there is a swaying figure resembling Chang 'e.

He chased the moon desperately, but he chased three steps, the moon retreated three steps, he retreated three steps and the moon advanced three steps, but he couldn't catch up anyway. Hou Yi had no choice but to miss his wife, so he had to send someone to Chang 'e's favorite back garden, put on a table sweetmeats, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offer a sacrifice to Chang 'e who was attached to him at the Moon Palace.

After hearing the news that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon became an immortal, people made an incense table under the moon and prayed for good luck and peace to the kind Chang 'e.

Chang 'e is the daughter of Di Ku (Emperor Jun), one of the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times, and the wife of Hou Yi (Taiyi). She is called Heng E because of her extraordinary beauty. She was renamed Chang 'e in the Western Han Dynasty to avoid the taboo of China Emperor Liu Heng, also known as Chang 'e.

It is said that Chang 'e and Hou Yi started monogamy. In order to commemorate them, later generations interpreted the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, and many folk legends, poems and songs were circulated. ?

In myths and legends, Chang 'e went to the moon to become immortal and lived in the Guanghan Palace above the moon because she stole the elixir of life obtained by the Queen Mother of the West. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no data showing that Chang 'e and Hou Yi were husband and wife. It was not until Gaoyou annotated Huai Nan Zi that Chang 'e was the wife of Hou Yi.

Later, in Taoist mythology, Chang 'e and Xing Jun, the moon god, became one. Taoism regards the moon as the essence of Yin, respects it as the Empress of the Moon, or the Emperor of the Moon Palace as a filial and wise king, and creates female idols.

The ending of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's story in Han Dynasty is very strange. People in the Han Dynasty believed that there were jade rabbits and toads in the moon. Jade rabbit doesn't know the origin, and it is said that Chang 'e later became a toad.

The story of Chang 'e taking the elixir to the moon was revealed at the latest in the divination book "Returning to Tibet" at the end of the Warring States Period, and it was not widely known until the Han Dynasty. The story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon in the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's Huainanzi written by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, and Lingxian written by Zhang Heng, an astronomer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, has always had a good beginning and end.

Lingxian also mentioned that after Chang 'e stole the elixir of Hou Yi, he went to a fortune teller named Huang for good or ill luck. The fortune teller made a divination and told her it was auspicious, but it didn't hurt. He also predicted that if you go to the west, you may encounter dark and cloudy weather at the beginning, so don't be afraid, and future generations will be prosperous. Later, Chang 'e flew to the moon and became a toad.