What story is the Mid-Autumn Festival related to? Should Mid-Autumn Festival be celebrated in 2020?

What story is the Mid-Autumn Festival related to?

Legend about Mid-Autumn Festival: the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon

The myth of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon originated from the ancient people's worship of stars, and the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon first appeared in "Returning to Tibet".

Later, the people further developed this story and turned it into several versions.

Chang 'e boarded the moon palace. According to Huai Nan Zi in the Western Han Dynasty, it was because she ate the elixir of life that her husband Yi asked the fifth mother of Xi that she flew into the Moon Palace and became a toad.

Legend related to Mid-Autumn Festival: WU GANG won the laurel.

WU GANG ascended the Moon Palace to win the laurel. According to the records of the novel Youyang Miscellaneous Notes in the Tang Dynasty, it is precisely because WU GANG, a man in the west, made a mistake in cultivating immortals that he was punished by cutting his laurels every month.

This osmanthus tree grows with cutting, and it will never stop cutting.

Li Bai wrote in "A Gift to Cui Wenkun": If you want to spend Gui Yue, you must pay cold.

Legends and stories related to the Mid-Autumn Festival: Jade Rabbit Poaching Medicine

Rabbits boarded the Moon Palace to stir up medicine, which first appeared in Qu Yuan's Tian Wen. . It means that Gu and Tu are in the belly of the moon. What good is it for the moon? How did the rabbit get to the moon palace? Gu is a toad and Tu is a white rabbit. Jin Dynasty Fu Xuan's "Quasi-Heaven Question" also said: What is there in the middle of the month, the white rabbit is smashing medicine. According to Mr Wen Yiduo's textual research, this mixture of white rabbits was changed from the mixture of toads.

There is a jade rabbit beside Chang 'e. It is said that Chang 'e became lighter. When she started to take off, she picked up the white rabbit she had been feeding in fear. The white rabbit went to the moon with her.

Yutu has a pestle in the Moon Palace and mashes the elixir in a mortar at night. After this myth was spread to Japan, it became a jade rabbit mashed rice cake.

Legend related to Mid-Autumn Festival: Xuanzong Story

According to legend, Taoist priests Xuanzong, Shen and Hong all enjoy the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Suddenly, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty put forward the idea of visiting the Moon Palace, so Shi Tian went, and the three of them started to go to Qingyun and stroll in the Moon Palace.

However, the palace is heavily guarded and cannot enter, so it can only overlook the imperial city of Chang 'an. At this moment, I suddenly heard the voice of a fairy. Tang Xuanzong was always familiar with melody, so he remembered it.

This is exactly how many times this song should be sung only in the sky and the world can hear it! Later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty recalled Xian 'e's music and singing in Gong Yue, composed and choreographed his own music, and created the famous "colorful feathers" in history.

Legend about Mid-Autumn Festival: Moon Cake Uprising

It is said that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that at that time, the broad masses of the people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the ruling class in the Yuan Dynasty and rose up against the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang combined with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officers and men of the court searched very carefully and it was difficult to pass on the news.

Strategist Liu Bowen came up with a plan, ordered his men to hide the note containing the uprising on the evening of August 15th in the cake, and then sent people to the uprising troops in various places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the evening of August 15th. On the day of the uprising, all the rebels responded together.

Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising was successful.

When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy. He quickly ordered all soldiers to share this joy with the people in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and gave the moon cakes secretly sent during the war as seasonal cakes to ministers. Since then, moon cakes have become more exquisite and diverse. After that, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people. Should Mid-Autumn Festival be celebrated in 2020?

Lunar calendar: August 2020 15.

Gregorian calendar: 2020 10/day, Thursday, Libra.

Today's almanac is appropriate.

Nakai married her husband and daughter-in-law, built a house and prayed for the opening of the market.

Take money to go to school, sacrifice clothes, seek heirs and seek wealth.

Today's old almanac is taboo.

Moving into the house, Kaili's ci lawsuit, putting the upper beam and the column on the bed.

Build a site and travel for medical treatment.

Because Liang Shang is taboo in today's calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 is not suitable for Liang Shang!