Celebrity stories of Mid-Autumn Festival.

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "the right month". In the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival was also called "the first month". The prevalence of Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and it became one of the major festivals in China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Mid-Autumn Festival became a festival after the Tang and Song Dynasties, which developed from the Mid-Autumn Festival offering sacrifices to the Moon God. Since the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival has taken on a more unusual connotation. Broken mountains and rivers, broken Bianjing bright moon, the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon is precious. Since then, the reunion nature and status of the Mid-Autumn Festival have been confirmed in the Southern Song Dynasty and have been passed down to this day.

Celebrity stories about Mid-Autumn Festival include: the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Pei Ji, drinking the bright moon alone, Xuanzong, the story of Dixim Yue Bai, the laurel of Wugang, the moon cake uprising of Zhu Yuanzhang and so on. I think there are six famous stories about Mid-Autumn Festival. Let's take a look:

? One of the celebrity stories of Mid-Autumn Festival: the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon?

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a sharpshooter named Hou Yi and a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. One year, ten suns suddenly appeared in the sky, and the heat made the people despair. In order to relieve the suffering of the people, Hou Yi shot nine suns. Later, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek Tao. He happened to meet the Queen Mother passing by and asked her for a bag of elixir. It is said that taking this medicine will make you immortal immediately. But Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave his wife, so he temporarily gave the elixir to Chang 'e for safekeeping. ?

When Feng Meng got the news, he wanted to get the elixir, and took advantage of Houyi's hunting opportunity to coerce Chang 'e to hand over the elixir with his sword. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Meng Peng. In desperation, she took out the elixir and swallowed it. As soon as she swallowed the medicine, she flew into the sky at once. Chang 'e, concerned about her husband, flew to the nearest moon, became a fairy and lived in the Guanghan Palace. Loneliness is unbearable in the Guanghan Palace. Chang 'e urged WU GANG to cut down the osmanthus tree and let the Jade Rabbit pound medicine, hoping to make it into a soaring medicine and reunite with Hou Yi as soon as possible. ?

At the same time, when I missed my beloved wife Hou Yi and looked up at the night sky to call the name of Chang 'e, I found a swaying figure on the moon that looked like Chang 'e. After hearing the news that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon became an immortal, people set up incense tables under the moon to pray for good luck and peace.

? The second celebrity story of Mid-Autumn Festival: Pei Ji invents moon cakes.

Some historians point out that the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival should be August 15th, 13th year of Tang Jun's great cause in the late Sui Dynasty. Pei Ji and Tang Jun, with the idea of a full moon, successfully invented moon cakes and distributed them to the army as military salaries, which successfully solved the problem of military rations derived from absorbing a large number of anti-Sui rebels.

Since Li Yuan began to overthrow the rule of the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan, Pei Ji has been following him and giving him advice. At that time, Pei Ji even risked his life and transferred the food, horses, armor and other items originally prepared for Emperor Yangdi to Li Yuan. These things became important materials for Tang Gaozu uprising, and Tang Gaozu's trust was losing day by day.

Li Yuan won the battle all the way and absorbed many soldiers. With more soldiers, there is not enough food, and many soldiers begin to starve. Seeing this, Tang Gaozu was very sad, but he suffered from no good way to solve the problem. Tang Gaozu was very worried about this matter, and Pei Ji, a long history at that time, quickly followed Tang Gaozu after seeing it. It was August 15, and the moon in the sky was round and big, much like a pie. Looking at the moon in the sky, Pei Ji was so blessed that he came up with delicious moon cakes. Moon cakes are not only convenient to carry, but also can supplement soldiers' physical strength. Pei Ji successfully solved the problem of food shortage.

After the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a festival to reward ministers and began to become a fixed festival. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mid-Autumn Festival has become a major traditional festival in China.

? The third story of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrities: WU GANG conquers Guangxi?

Legend has it that WU GANG, a heartless general in heaven, was deeply attracted by Chang 'e's beauty and ran to the Moon Palace again and again despite the rejection of the other side. Unable to bear it, Chang 'e pointed to the laurel tree in the middle of the month and said, Its branches are too long. If you can cut it off tonight, you will agree to your pursuit. WU GANG be elated, thinking this is a difficult problem, he swung his axe and cut it. But every time the axe is pulled out, the trunk of the osmanthus tree will recover. So he chopped one axe after another, and the osmanthus tree continued. One to this day. ?

There is also a legend that WU GANG is a mortal: Wu Minggang, a native of Xihe, was originally a woodcutter, obsessed with fairy tales, but refused to concentrate on reading. So the Emperor of Heaven was furious and stayed in the Moon Palace, making him cut down a osmanthus tree 500 feet high in the Moon Palace, and said, "If you cut down the osmanthus tree, you will get magical powers." But every time WU GANG cuts an axe, it rises, and the tree injury will be cured immediately. Day after day, Wu Gang's desire to cut Guangxi has not been realized.

? The Fourth Celebrity Story of Mid-Autumn Festival: The Story of Yue Bai and Diexin?

The story of Dixin is a song by Stuart Wang Yun in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. She is very beautiful. She looks very beautiful. Seeing that the Eastern Han Dynasty was manipulated by treacherous court official Dong Zhuo and burned incense and prayed under the moon, I was worried about my master. Wang Yun saw that Dong Zhuo was going to usurp the Eastern Han Dynasty and set up a series of stratagems. Wang Yunxian secretly promised Lu Bu the story of Diusim and dedicated it to Dong Zhuo of the Ming Dynasty. Lyu3 bu4 hero boy, Dong Zhuo cunning. In order to win over Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo accepted Lu Bu as his adopted son. Both of them are lecherous. From then on, the story of Diusim moved between them, winking at Lu Bu and rewarding Dong Zhuo's charm. The two of them were fascinated.

After listening to Dong Zhuo's story, Lu Bu was dissatisfied with her throwing her into the house. One day, Lu Bu took Dong Zhuo to court, visited the Story of Diusim in Dong Zhuo's mansion, and invited Feng Yiting to meet him. The story of Diusim met Lu Bu, who pretended to cry and said that he was occupied by Dong Zhuo. Lu Bu was very angry. At this time, Dong Zhuo ran into him when he returned to the office. In a rage, he grabbed Lu Bu's square painting halberd and stabbed Lu Bu, who left despondently. After that, the two men were suspicious of each other, and Wang Yun persuaded Lu Bu to eradicate Dong Zhuo.

Legend has it that the story of diusim was born. In three years, local peaches and apricots bloomed and withered. At midnight in Yue Bai, Chang 'e was ashamed and hurried into the clouds. Story Diesim has a beautiful figure, blue ears, swaying willows when walking, and more elegant when quiet. The story of diusim is very wonderful. It is precisely because of this beauty that Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, who are domineering over power, turned against each other and made the turbulent ruling and opposition parties feel a little peace.

? The fifth celebrity story of Mid-Autumn Festival: Zhu Yuanzhang's moon cake uprising?

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule. Patriots rose up in succession, and heroes from all walks of life led by Zhu Yuanzhang fought against the imperial court together. However, at that time, the court search was very strict, and it was inconvenient for the insurgents to send messages to each other. At this time, Liu Bowen, the strategist of Zhu Yuanzhang, came up with a clever plan, asking his men to hide a note with the words "Kill the Tartars on August 15th" in the cake, and then send someone to the insurgents all over the country to inform them of the uprising on August 15th. Sure enough, all the insurgents responded together on the day of the uprising. Soon, the insurgents occupied the city and the uprising was successful.

In addition, there is a legend that Liu Bowen ordered his men to dress up as Taoist priests to sell symbols in various counties, and said: There will be a great disaster this year, and those who want to avoid it can hang the sun and moon flag on August 15th, and the flag is hidden in the pie. On this day, the people of the whole country cut up the pie and hung up the flags hidden inside. The flags of the sun and the moon floated in every household. The uprising was huge and Yuan people were very shocked.

Zhu Yuanzhang successfully entered the army and the Yuan Dynasty was successfully overthrown. Later, this sun and moon flag was the "Ming" flag. When the news of victory reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, he was so happy that he immediately ordered that all the soldiers and civilians should have fun together on this day every year. The cakes that played an important role in the success of the uprising should be given to ministers as cakes and named "moon cakes".

Since then, the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people, and people have become more elaborate and varied in the process of making moon cakes, and even become a good gift for relatives and friends.

? Mid-Autumn Festival celebrity story 6: Xuanzong travels around the moon?

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 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.

In fact, as early as August 15th of each year in the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a routine. In order to enjoy himself, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the construction of a 100-foot-high platform on the west bank of Taiye Pool, named "Moon Watching Platform". According to "The Legacy of Kaiyuan", "On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, I went to Taiyuantan to watch the moon with the imperial concubine", so the legend of Emperor Tang Ming's sleepwalking in the Moon Palace was formed and widely circulated. Following the legend, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation began to spread to all walks of life and received attention.

Through Emperor Tang Ming's visit to the Moon Palace, he described the Moon Palace Wonderland, which set off an atmosphere different from the world. Although it is a legend, it is hard to convince people, but it shows people's yearning for this fairy land.

The folk stories of Mid-Autumn Festival are different in the north and the south, but they are basically the same in one thing, that is, family reunion, visiting relatives and friends, visiting elders and so on. I hope we can keep these customs and origins full of affection and good wishes in mind and pass them on from generation to generation.