The origin of the name of the moon

China, the ancients not only used "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon".

"Wu Gang cut Guangxi"

Jade rabbit tinkering with medicine

"toad

The related images in myths and legends such as "Chu protection" are called replacing the moon, which also changes according to the moon phase.

Give it many visual aliases. Now the more common moon aliases are listed as follows:

1.

Legend has it that there are rabbits and toads in the moon, so the moon is called "silver rabbit"

"Jade Rabbit"

Toad rabbit

"gold

Toad "

"silver toad"

"Jade toad"

Moon

Toad

. For example, Xin Qiji's "Man Jiang Hong Mid-Autumn Festival"

about

"I'm going upstairs to see the Jade Rabbit.

Who put up a curtain to cover the silver que? "

Nineteen ancient poems

Meng Dong is very cold. "

"Three or five bright moons are full, four or five toads are short."

"The clouds are light and the wind is light" in Fang Gan's Mid-Autumn Festival Full Moon.

Outside, thirty-five jade toad autumn "

In "Swing", a poet monk Hui Hong, "Let go of leisure and stand calmly, and doubt is.

The moon fell on the fairy. "

, Jia Dao's "Jiang Yi Shi" in "Fujian set sail, toad lost.

Group "

, and so on.

2.

Legend has it that there are laurel trees on the moon, so the moon is called "laurel wheel"

"Guigong"

"ghost woman"

. Li Ru

The theme of "Yiling Water Pavilion on Autumn Night" is "Christina in autumn and Ming Dynasty, and the laurel wheel falls obliquely to the bottom of the river"

In Wang Wei's Autumn Nightingale, "Gui Bo was born without autumn dew, thin without changing clothes"

, and so on.

3.

Legend has it that there is wide cold on the moon,

Empty two palaces,

Therefore, the moon is called.

"wide cold"

"clearing deficiency"

4.

Legend has it that the name of the god who drives the moon is Wang Shu, so the moon is called "Wang Shu"

. For example, Qu Yuan

In Li Sao, "Wang Shu was a pioneer before, and Fei Lian was a subordinate after."

"

5.

Legend has it that Chang 'e lives in the middle of the month, so she calls the moon Chang 'e.

6.

The first moon is like a hook, so it is called "silver hook".

"jade hook"

. Such as Lu You's "Picking Lotus"

"The clouds are light and the wind is light, the jade hook is hanging in the blue sky, and the Shicheng ship is near the new autumn."

7.

The moon is like a bow, so it is called "Jade Bow".

. Such as "seeking" in Li He's South Garden.

Zhang extracts old carved insects, and Xiao Yue hangs a jade bow as a curtain. "

8.

The full moon is like a wheel,

Such as a magnetic disk,

Such as mirrors,

Like a pot,

Therefore, the moon is called.

"golden wheel"

"Jade Wheel"

"Ice!

Wheel "

"silver plate"

Pan Yu.

"golden mirror"

"Jade Mirror"

"flying mirror"

"Jade pot"

. For example, Yuan Zhen's moon.

In He Jiang Bing Jian Lang, Huang Lun Wei

Who is the jade hook in Lu You's Under the Moon?

Hang up, the ice wheel is helpless "

, Li Qunyu's "Mid-Autumn Festival Junshan to see the bright moon" in the "Khan Manpu, Meng.

Oboro spits jade plate "

"The golden mirror in the sky, the jade hook on earth" in Li He's Tanabata.

, Xin Qiji

Taichangyin

Hit a target/mark

"An autumn shadow turns into a golden wave,

The flying mirror is reground. "

Xin Qiji

Sapphire box

Yuan dynasty (1206- 1368)

In the evening, "the phoenix flute moves, the jade pot turns and the fish dances all night"

, and so on.

9.

People often compare beautiful women to the moon, so they call the moon "Chanjuan"

. Such as Su Shi's Water Tune

In the song "When is the bright moon?", "May people live a long life and be beautiful thousands of miles away."

In addition,

The moon has many nicknames in ancient poems.

For example, Qu Yuan

Tian Wen

Hit a target/mark

"at night

Light is kind and death is fertile. "

In Historical Records and Biography of Sima Xiangru, Yoko is a good man.

For the royal family. "

In Li Pu's Mid-Autumn Festival, "The mirror rises to the sky, and the fairy is silent in the clouds."

, Zhang

In Joe's two poems on the moon, "a round soul is cold and empty, and all the words are the same."

, Ouyang Zhan's "Playing the Moon"

In the novel, "the soul is lonely and the fragrance is full of competition."

, and so on.