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What are the legends of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

1. The Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine

Legend has it that a long time ago, a pair of rabbits who had practiced for thousands of years 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.

2, Tengu swallowed the moon

Tengu ate the moon legend: Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a male named "Meilian". Born good Buddha, good people. Very filial piety to his mother, however, the mother of Meilian, as the mother of the mother, violent nature, good and bad people.

3, Wu Gang felled the laurel

Legend has it that there is a laurel tree in the moon that is five hundred feet high. During the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Wu Gang, who was drunk on the Tao of Immortality instead of concentrating on his studies, and was relegated to the moon to cut down the laurel.

But the laurel in the moon was cut down as it was cut down, so later generations were able to see the image of Wu Gang endlessly cutting down the laurel in the moon.

4, Chang'e to the moon

Legend has it that in ancient times, the sky suddenly appeared ten suns, sunburned the earth smoke, the people really can not live on. There was a powerful hero named Hou Yi, who was determined to relieve the suffering of the people.

Chang E ate the elixir and suddenly flew up. She flew out of the window, flew through the countryside sprinkled with silver, flying higher and higher. There was a bright moon hanging in the turquoise blue night sky, and Chang'e kept flying towards the moon.

5, the goddess of laurel

Daphne turned into a laurel tree, is later the goddess of laurel. It was a very beautiful goddess, who had fallen in love with Apollo, the eldest son of Zeus, back then. Finally, one day Apollo finally could not resist his love for the goddess of laurel, and began his pursuit of her.

Until one day, he suddenly realized that it was because he was too hot that he made Laurel turn into a big tree. Apollo vowed to leave a shade for Laurel forever. That's what we know as sunspots.