The Seven Legendary Stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival Legends Story 1: Chang'e Runs to the Moon

In ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky at the same time, sunburned crops withered and died, the people did not want to live, a hero named Houyi, great strength, he sympathized with the suffering people, pulled open the bow, shot down more than nine suns in one breath, and strictly ordered the last sun to rise and fall on time for the people's well-being. Hou Yi's wife's name was Chang'e. Hou Yi spent his days with his wife, except when he was hunting. A lot of people came to learn the art, and the wrong-minded Peng Meng also mixed in.

One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit friends and seek Taoism, and asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It is said that by taking this medicine, one can instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not leave his wife behind, and temporarily gave the immortality pill to Chang E to treasure. Chang'e hid the medicine in a treasure box on her dresser. Three days later, Hou Yi led his disciples on a hunting trip, but Peng Meng, who had a secret agenda, pretended to be sick and did not go out. Soon after Hou Yi left, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the house 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 turned around, opened the treasure box, and took out the Pill of Immortality and swallowed it in one gulp. When Chang'e swallowed the medicine, her body immediately floated away from the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew toward the sky. Because Chang'e was so attached to her husband, she flew down to the moon, which is the closest to the earth, and became an immortal.

In the evening, Hou Yi returned home, and his maids cried out about what had happened during the day. Hou Yi was shocked and furious, and drew his sword to kill the villains, but Peng Meng had already escaped. Hou Yi was so angry that he beat his chest and was so sad that he looked up to the night sky and called Chang'e. At that time, he realized that the moon was exceptionally bright and clear, and there was a swaying figure resembling Chang'e. He thought about his wife, and sent his wife to the moon to be with him, and then he sent his wife to the moon. Hou Yi misses his wife, he sent people to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, put on Chang'e usually love to eat honey and fresh fruits, and sacrificed to 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.

Mid-Autumn Festival legend story 2: Wu Gang felled the cinnamon

Legend has it that there is a cinnamon tree in the moon, "Huainanzi" has been said that "there is a cinnamon tree in the moon", and later the legend is more specific, and cinnamon next to the addition of a cinnamon felled by the man Wu Gang. The moon in the laurel tree and Wu Gang's legend, to the Tang Dynasty Duan Cheng style "Youyang Miscellany Chopper" before the collection of Volume 1, "Tianzhang" contained the most specific, which said: "the old saying that the moon in the laurel, toad, so different books that the laurel is five hundred zhang high, there is a man under the often hacked, the tree created along with the closure. People surnamed Wu Gang, West River people, learning Xian has been, banished to cut down the tree." The meaning is that Wu Gang had followed the immortals to cultivate and reached the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, so the immortals sent him to the moon and ordered him to cut down the laurel, the tree of immortality. The laurel was 500 feet high and would close as soon as it was cut. The Emperor used this never-ending labor as a punishment for Wu Gang. Li Bai's poem, "I want to chop the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for the cold".

Mid-Autumn Festival legend story three: the Jade Rabbit pounded medicine

This legend was first seen in the Han Lefu - Dong escape line: "The Jade Rabbit knelt long and pounded pills toad pills, served on His Majesty a jade plate, to take this medicine can be immortal." According to legend, there is a rabbit in the middle of the moon that is as white as jade, so it is called "Jade Rabbit". This white rabbit held a jade mortar and pestle and knelt down to pound medicine into toadstool pills, which could be taken to live a long life and become immortal. I'm afraid that the Jade Rabbit is Chang'e's earliest playmate in the Guanghan Palace.

Summary: The first three stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival have the shadow of myths and legends everywhere, about the connection between the three, there is a saying that: according to legend, Yi from the Queen Mother of the West where she got the medicine of immortality, handed over to Houang E for safekeeping. When Hou Yi heard about it, he went to steal it, but Hou Yi failed to do so and tried to harm her. Hou Yi swallowed the immortality pill and flew to the sky. Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave Yi, so she stayed in the Moon's Guang Han Palace. Hou Yi was so lonely that she urged Wu Gang to cut down the osmanthus tree and let the Jade Rabbit pound the medicine, so that she could return to the earth as soon as possible to be reunited with Yi.

Mid-Autumn Festival legend story 4: Xuanzong tour of the moon

Legend has it that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong and Shen Tianshi and Taoist Hongdu Mid-Autumn Festival look at the moon, and suddenly Emperor Xuanzong rose up to the idea of touring the Moon Palace, so Tianshi as a method, the three of them, a start on the clouds, roaming the Moon Palace. But the palace before the tightly 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 music, so silent memory. 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, and composed his own music and dance, which is the history of the famous "Nishang Yuyi song".

Mid-Autumn Festival legend story 5: Diaochan worship the moon

Diaochan is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty Stuart Wang Yun's songstress, the national color, with the appearance of the country. Legend has it that Sable Cicada was born in the world, three years the local peach and apricot blossom withered; Sable Cicada midnight moon worship, Chang'e in the moon is inferior to, hastily hidden in the clouds; Sable Cicada body posture is beautiful, fine ear Biehuan, the line when the wind swinging willow, when the quiet elegance of Sable Cicada, the beauty of the great spectacle. It is because of this beauty, so that the power of Dong Zhuo, courageous and unscrupulous Lv Bu turned against the enemy, making the chaos of the dynasty a little peace.

Mid-Autumn Festival Legend Story 6: Drinking alone under the moon

The poet Li Bai wrote about his own drinking alone under the moon between flowers. The sentence of "the shadow becomes three people" is a marvelous idea, which expresses his lonely and bold feelings. Li Poetry Direct Interpretation: "This is drinking alone to the moon, letting go of his feelings to enjoy himself." When the poet appeared on the stage, the background was the flower room, the props were a pot of wine, the role of the appearance was only himself, the action was drinking alone, together with the three words "no relatives", the scene was very monotonous. So the poet suddenly thought, the sky of the moon, and the moonlight under their own shadow, pulled over, even within themselves, turned into three people, raise the cup **** discretion, cold and quiet scene, it is lively.

Mid-Autumn Festival legend story 7: moon cake uprising

Mid-Autumn Festival eating moon cakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the vast majority of people in the Central Plains could not stand the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty ruling class, and have risen up against the Yuan. All the forces of resistance were united to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, and it was very difficult to pass the news. Master Liu Bowen came up with a plan, ordered his subordinates to hide the "August 15 night uprising" note hidden inside the cake, and then sent people to send people around the insurgent army, notify them in the night of August 15 uprising response. On the day of the uprising, all the rebels responded together. Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he quickly sent down an order to let all the generals and soldiers enjoy the coming Mid-Autumn Festival with the people, and rewarded the ministers with "moon cakes", which had been used to secretly transmit messages during the uprising, as festive cakes. Since then, the mooncake has become more and more elaborate, and there are more varieties of mooncakes. After that, the custom of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival was spread among the people.

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Moon worship

The custom of enjoying the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets wrote about the moon in their famous poems.

To the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival style is more prevalent, every day, "the noble family decorative platforms and pavilions, the folk compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon. Ming and Qing court and folk moon worship and moon viewing activities on a larger scale, China has survived a lot of "moon worship altar", "moon worship pavilion", "look at the moon building" and other monuments.

Moon worship

The Book of Rites has recorded that "Autumn sunset moon", meaning the worship of the moon god, when this time to be held to welcome the cold and the moon, set up incense.

By the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night should be held to welcome the cold and moon festival. Set up a large incense, moon cakes, watermelon, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings, of which the moon cakes and watermelon is absolutely can not be missing, the watermelon should also be cut into a lotus shape.

Moon watching

The literati were even more fascinated by moon watching, they or climbed to the moon or canoeing to invite the moon, drinking and poetry, leaving a lot of popular songs of the past.

Such as Du Fu "August 15 night moon" to symbolize the reunion of the fifteenth moon to reflect their own wandering in a foreign land of the detained sadness; Song Dynasty literary hero Su Shi, Mid-Autumn Festival drinking Dan, drunkenness, and made the "Song of Water," by the moon's roundness of the metaphor of the people of the clutch. Until today, sitting together as a family and enjoying the beauty of the moon in the sky is still one of the essential activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eating mooncakes

Mooncakes are a must for the Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of China, and as the saying goes, "The moon is full on the 15th day of the 8th month, and the mooncakes are sweet and fragrant".

The word "mooncake" originated in the Southern Song Dynasty in Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Records", which was only a kind of snack food at that time. Later, people gradually combined the moon and mooncakes to symbolize the reunion of family members and to express their thoughts. At the same time, the mooncake is also an important gift used to contact feelings between friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine

People often eat mooncakes to enjoy osmanthus flowers and consume various foods made of osmanthus flowers during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with pastries and candies being the most common.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the laurel in the moon, smelling the fragrance of osmanthus, drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrating the sweetness of the family, has become a festival of a beautiful enjoyment. In modern times, people mostly take red wine instead.

Burning lamps

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is the custom of burning lamps to help the moon. Nowadays, there is still a custom of burning lamps on towers with tiles stacked on top of them. Jiangnan area has the production of light boat festival custom.

In recent times, the custom of burning lights on the Mid-Autumn Festival is more prevalent. Today, Zhou Yunjin, He Xiangfei, "Idle feelings to try to say that the festival," said: "Guangdong, the most prevalent lights, each family in the festival ten days before the use of bamboo strips to tie lanterns. Do fruit, birds, animals, fish and insects and 'celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival' and other words, on the paste color paper painted in various colors.

Tidal wave

In ancient times, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, Zhejiang area, tide watching can be regarded as another Mid-Autumn event. The custom of mid-autumn tide watching has a long history, as early as the Han Dynasty, Mei multiplied the "seven hair" in the fugue has a fairly detailed account.

After the Han Dynasty, the trend of mid-autumn tide-watching was even more prevalent. The tide was also recorded in Ming Zhu Tinghuan's "Supplementing the Old Story of Wulin" and Song Wu Zimu's "Dream Sorghum Records".

Burning tower

The game of burning tile lights (or burning flower tower, burning tower, burning tower, burning tower) is widely circulated in the south.

For example, the Chinese National Customs Volume V: Jiangxi "Mid-Autumn Festival night, the general children in the field to pick up tiles, piled up into a round tower shape, there are many holes. At dusk under the bright moon in the wood tower burned. Once the tile burns red, and then splashed with kerosene, oil on fire, all of a sudden the four fields red, shining as day.

Guessing riddles

On the night of the full moon in Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many lanterns hanging in the public **** place, people are gathered together, guessing the riddles written on the lanterns, because it is the favorite activity of most young men and women, and at the same time on these activities there are also rumors of love, so Mid-Autumn Festival Guessing riddles are derived from a form of love between men and women.

Playing with lanterns

The Mid-Autumn Festival does not have a large lantern festival like the Lantern Festival, and playing with lanterns is mainly done among families and children.

As early as in the Northern Song Dynasty, "Wulin Old Story", recorded in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be 'a little red' lights into the river to float and play activities. Mid-autumn play lanterns, mostly concentrated in the south. Such as Foshan Autumn will have a variety of colorful lanterns: sesame lamps, eggshell lamps, shavings lamps, straw lamps, fish scale lamps, cereal lamps, melon seed lamps and birds and animals, flowers and trees lamps.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China. According to historical records, the term "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the book "Zhou Li". By the time of the Wei and Jin dynasties, there were "Oracle Shangshu town cattle confusion, the Mid-Autumn Festival with the left and right micro-suits pan river" record. It was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a regular festival. The Book of Tang - Taizong records that "August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival". The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was already on a par with New Year's Day as one of the major festivals in China. It is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival.

Another theory of the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is that the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar coincides with the ripening of rice, and families worship the God of the Land. The Mid-Autumn Festival may be a remnant of the Autumn Report.

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Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival to burn incense. The incense burner is surrounded by gauze and silk, and is painted with the scenery of the moon palace. There are also incense pipes made of thread, above the insertion of paper and colorful flags of the Kuixing. The Shanghai people eat the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet with osmanthus honey wine.

Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province, in the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, each village with straw burn pots. When the pots burn red, then put vinegar into it. At this time, there will be a fragrance all over the village.

In addition to eating mooncakes, people in Sichuan Province also eat mooncakes, but also beat the poi, kill ducks, eat hemp cakes, honey cakes and so on. Some places also point orange lanterns, hanging in front of the door to celebrate. There are also children who stick incense all over the pomelo and dance along the street, which is called "Dancing Meteor Incense Ball". Jiading County, the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifices to the God of the land, play a variety of plays, vocal music, cultural relics, known as the "look at the meeting".

In the north, farmers in Qingyun County, Shandong Province, offer sacrifices to the God of the Earth on August 15, called "Qingmiao She". Zhucheng, Linyi and Jimo, in addition to the moon festival, also have to go to the grave to worship their ancestors. Landlords in Guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Yucheng also feasted their tenants at the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Jimo, a kind of food called "wheat arrow" is eaten on Mid-Autumn Festival. Lu'an, Shanxi Province, feasted their son-in-laws on the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Datong County, the moon cake is called "reunion cake", and there is a custom of vigil on the Mid-Autumn Festival night.

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1, rhombus

Eating rhombus on the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make the child grow up smart. After eating the sweet moon cakes, drink a bowl of porridge, the stomach of the grease removed on the spot a lot.

2, chestnuts

The first cool fall, the streets began to waft the aroma of fried chestnuts. Chestnuts, the original and taro, lingjiao, the same, is also the Mid-Autumn Festival must eat snacks. Chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature, and have the effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonic kidney and strong tendons.

3, pomelo

Grapefruit is one of the must-have Mid-Autumn Festival, because the pomelo and the blessing of the moon is the meaning of the resonance, but also hope that the moon blessing. Eating sweet mooncakes, and then eat some sweet and sour pomelo, not only appetizing, but also to solve the greasy, so that the mouth has a sense of freshness.

4, reunion bun

Xi'an, Shaanxi, around the Mid-Autumn Festival, every local family to make a bun, the whole family **** eat a bun, said reunion bun. The bun has a top and bottom two layers, with sesame seeds in the center. The upper layer of the bun with a large bowl top a circle, symbolizing the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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