Myths in the Full Moon at the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Festival, Chasing the Moon Festival, Playing the Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Daughter's Festival, or Reunion Festival, is popular in many ethnic groups in China and the Chinese character cultural circle of the countries of the traditional cultural festivals, the time in the 15th of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar; because of its value of the three half of the Autumn Festival, so the name, there are some places will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in the sixteenth day of the eighth month. About the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a lot of legends, such as: "Wu Gang folded laurel", "Chang'e Run to the Moon", "Jade Rabbit pounding medicine", "Xuanzong night tour of the Moon Palace", etc., we will introduce a few more classic legends!

Wu Gang, who is the guardian of the South Heavenly Gate, and Chang'e in the moon are very good, but he is often negligent in his duties because of remembering to meet Chang'e. The Jade Emperor knows this, and he has a lot to say about it. The Jade Emperor knows, in a fit of anger, the Wu Gang sentenced to the moon to cut a large tree called laurel. He also said that if Wu Gang did not cut down the laurel tree, he would not be able to return to the South Heavenly Gate, and would not be able to meet with Chang'e.

Wu Gang chopped, chopped, chopped from winter to summer, a full half a year, see the tree will soon be chopped up, but the Jade Emperor sent crows to come to the laurel tree, "swish" sound, the Wu Gang hanging in the tree to take away the shirt. Wu Gang immediately put down his axe and went after the crow. After recovering the clothes, Wu Gang went back to the tree and saw that all the branches and leaves that had been cut down had reappeared on the tree. From then on, whenever Wu Gang was about to cut down all the branches and leaves of the laurel tree, the crows would stand on the tree and "wow wow wow wow", and Wu Gang would just stop the axe and look at it, and the tree would grow back.

In this way, year after year, Wu Gang always cut down the laurel tree. And only on the sixteenth day of the eighth month every year did a leaf fall from the moon to the ground. Whose family was the most industrious, the golden leaves floated to, and that family had endless wealth.

In a long, long time ago, because Houyi shot Hitachi credit, soon, Houyi married a beautiful and kind ? wife, named Chang'e. People envied this loving couple. One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to meet the Queen Mother, they asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It was said that by taking this medicine, one could instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not leave his wife behind, so he temporarily gave the immortality pill to Chang'e to treasure. Chang'e hid the medicine in the treasure box of the dresser, but unexpectedly was Peng Meng saw. Three days later, Hou Yi went out hunting, and Peng Meng pretended to be sick and stayed behind. Soon after Hou Yi left, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the mansion with a sword in his hand and forced Chang E to hand over the immortality pill. Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, and in a moment of crisis, she made a snap decision, turned around, opened the treasure box, and took out the Pill of Immortality and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang'e swallowed the medicine, her body immediately floated away from the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew to the sky. Because Chang'e was attached to her husband, she flew down to the closest to the earth on the moon and became immortal.

After Hou Yi missed his wife, he sent people to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, and put on Chang'e's usual honey food and fresh fruits, and sacrificed Chang'e in the Moon Palace. When the people heard the news that Chang'e had run to the moon and become immortal, they set up incense under the moon and prayed to the kind Chang'e for good luck and peace. Since then, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon worship custom in the folk spread.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a pair of rabbits who had practiced for thousands of years and became immortal. They had four lovely daughters, each born pure white and clever.

One day, the Jade Emperor summoned the male rabbit to the Heavenly Palace, and he reluctantly left his wife and children, stepping on the clouds to go to the Heavenly Palace. Just as it came to the South Heavenly Gate, it saw Taibai Jinxing leading the Heavenly Generals escorting Chang'e away from the side. Not knowing what had happened, the Rabbit Fairy asked a nearby Heavenly God who was guarding the Heavenly Gate. After hearing what happened to her, the Rabbit Fairy felt that Chang'e was innocent and sympathized with her. But what could he do to help? Thinking of how lonely and sad Chang'e was locked up in the Moon Palace, if only she had someone to keep her company, and suddenly thinking of her four daughters, she immediately flew home. The rabbit fairy told the female rabbit what had happened to Chang'e, and said that she wanted to send a child to accompany Chang'e. Although the female rabbit y sympathized with Chang'e, she did not want to send a child to accompany her. Although the female rabbit y sympathized with Chang'e, she couldn't let go of her own precious daughters, which was tantamount to cutting off the flesh of her heart! Several daughters were also reluctant to leave their parents, and each of them burst into tears. The male rabbit said earnestly: "If I were to be locked up alone, would you be willing to accompany me? Chang'e was involved in the rescue of the people, can we not sympathize with her? Children, we can't just think of ourselves!"

The children understood their father's heart and all expressed their willingness to go. The male and female rabbits smiled with tears in their eyes. They decided to let the youngest daughter go. So the young Jade Rabbit said goodbye to her parents and sisters and went to the Moon Palace to accompany Chang'e in pounding medicine!

The legend has it that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong and Shen Tianshi and Taoist Hongdu mid-autumn moon, suddenly Xuanzong rose up to the idea of touring the Moon Palace, and then Tianshi for the law, the three of them, a step up on the clouds, roaming the Moon Palace. But the palace is heavily guarded, can not enter, can only be outside overlooking the Imperial City of Chang'an. At this time, suddenly heard the sound of fairy bursts, beautiful and strange, just like moving, Tang Xuanzong has always been familiar with the sound of the music, and then memorized in mind. This is exactly "this song should only be on the sky, the earth can get a few times heard!" Later, Emperor Xuanzong recalled the music and song of the moon palace fairy e, his own music and dance, created the history of the famous "Nishang Yuyi song".