What are the myths about the Mid-Autumn Festival

Mythological stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival What are the mythological stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival story 1: The Legend of the Jade Rabbit

Legend has it that one year there was a plague in the city of Beijing, and many people fell ill at once, and what medicine they ate did not work.

The people were so anxious that they had no choice but to set up a table in the yard, burn incense and worship the moon, asking the moon official Chang'e to save their lives. It was the 15th day of the 8th month. The moon is full and big, Chang'e in the moon official, through the bright moonlight, the disaster on earth and the people on their own begging to see clearly, Chang'e sadly cried. So she sent the Jade Rabbit from the Moon Palace down to the earth to heal the people.

The Jade Rabbit, after being ordered, was transformed into a beautiful young girl, who wore a white dress and floated to the capital. She traveled from street to street and from house to house to cure the sick. When the patients ate the medicine she gave them, they immediately felt much more refreshed, and many of them were able to go down to the ground at that time.

In order to appreciate the Jade Rabbit's healing and life-saving grace, people gave her money, which she refused; gave her gifts, which she also refused. People always feel bad, they took out a lot of clothes to give her, this time, no matter how the Jade Rabbit how to push can not, she had to accept. In this way,

The Jade Rabbit every to a family, have to change a dress, sometimes male, sometimes female; sometimes like a oil seller, sometimes like a vegetable seller, sometimes like a little girl, sometimes like a grandmother ...... night's work, she traveled all over the thousands of households, change the countless kinds of attire, the people spit praise of this! "The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

After running around all night, the Jade Rabbit finally cured the last patient before dawn.

She felt sleepy and tired, and fell asleep under a big acacia tree. Because she was so tired, she showed her true colors in her sleep, and two big ears appeared on her head. People on the street are surprised to gather around, looking at the rabbit-faced person of the girl, and look up to see the moon is about to disappear in the morning sun, people suddenly understand: this is the moon on the Jade Rabbit descended to earth, for the people of the capital to eliminate disaster send good luck to come!

The news of the Jade Rabbit's descent was like a wind blowing through the whole capital, and immediately stirred up the whole country. From then on, every August 15, the people of the capital will worship "Rabbit Master", "Rabbit Grandma", in order to remember the Jade Rabbit's benevolence for the people to cure diseases and get rid of disasters.

Mid-Autumn Festival Story 2: Diaochan Worshipping the Moon

Diaochan was the songstress of Wang Yun, an apprentice at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and she was a beautiful woman with the appearance of a beautiful country. When Diaochan was worshipping the moon in the back garden, suddenly a light wind blew, and a piece of floating cloud covered the bright moon. It was just when Wang Yun saw it. In order to publicize his daughter's beauty, Wang Yun said, "My daughter is more beautiful than the moon, and the moon can't compete with her, so she hid behind the cloud, so Diao Chan was also known as the "Closed Moon".

At that time, Wang Yun saw that the Eastern Han Dynasty was manipulated by the traitor Dong Zhuo, and he burned incense under the moon and prayed to heaven, wishing to worry about his master. Wang Yun saw that Dong Zhuo would usurp the Eastern Han Dynasty, and set up a chain plan. Wang Yun first promised Diaochan to Lu Bu secretly, and then offered Diaochan to Dong Zhuo explicitly. Lv Bu was a young hero, but Dong Zhuo was a cunning and cunning man. In order to attract Lv Bu, Dong Zhuo took Lv Bu as his son. Both of them were lustful men. From then on, Diao Chan circled between them, sending Lv Bu with her fall waves and rewarding Dong Zhuo with her flirtations. The two of them were so excited that they were turned on by it.

Lv Bu has been unhappy since Dong Zhuo accepted Diaochan as his concubine. One day, Lu Bu took Dong Zhuo to the court, into the Dong Zhuo House to visit Diaochan, and invited Feng Yi Pavilion to meet, Diaochan see Lu Bu, pretending to cry by Dong Zhuo domination of the pain, Lu Bu anger. Diaochan worship the moon story, this time Dong Zhuo back to the house bumped into, and angrily snatched Lv Bu's square sky painting halberd straight stab Lv Bu, Lv Bu flew away, from the two mutual suspicion, Wang Yun will convince Lv Bu, eradicating the Dong Zhuo.

Mid-Autumn Festival Story 3: Mooncake Uprising

Eating mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the vast majority of people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruelty of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, and they rose up against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bowen, the military advisor, came up with a plan to order his subordinates to hide the note with the message "Rise on the 15th of August" inside a cake, and then sent people to deliver it to the rebel armies around the world, informing them to rise on the night of the 15th of August to respond to the revolt. The first 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 oracle, in the coming Mid-Autumn Festival, so that all the generals and soldiers with the people to have fun, and will be the year when the army to secretly transmit information "moon cake", as a festival pastry reward for the ministers. 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.

Mid-Autumn Festival story 4: Wu Gang felled the laurel

Wu Gang of the Southern Heavenly Gate and Chang'e in the moon is very good, but he often hangs on to meet Chang'e, and neglected his duties.

When the Jade Emperor found out, he punished Wu Gang to cut down a big tree called laurel in the moon. If Wu Gang did not cut down the laurel tree, he could not return to the South Heavenly Gate and could not meet Chang E.

Wu Gang was very good friends with Chang E in the moon, but he often missed his duty to meet Chang E.

When the Jade Emperor found out, he punished Wu Gang to cut down a big tree called laurel in the moon.

Wu Gang cut ah, cut ah, from winter to summer, cut half a year, see the tree is about to cut all, but the Jade Emperor sent crows to come to the laurel tree next to the "swish", the Wu Gang hanging in the tree on the shirt to take away. 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 were born again on the tree. So, from then on, whenever Wu Gang was about to cut all the branches and leaves of the laurel tree, the crows stood on the tree "wow wow wow" screaming, Wu Gang as long as the axe stops, look at it, the tree will grow branches and leaves again.

In this way, year after year, Wu Gang always cut down the moon tree. Only on the 16th day of the 8th month of every year, a leaf from the moon fell to the ground. If anyone picks up this leaf of the laurel tree, he or she will be able to get an endless supply of gold and silver jewelry.

Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times

Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times called the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Chasing the Moon Festival, Playing with the Moon Festival, Moon Worshipping Festival, Daughters' Festival, or Reunion Festival, is popular in many ethnic groups of China and the countries of East Asia in the traditional cultural festivals, the time in the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; because of the value of the three halves of the Autumn Festival, so the name. The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and it is also the traditional festival of some countries in Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, especially for the Chinese diaspora living there. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday.