Mid-Autumn Festival idioms related to rabbits

The Mid-Autumn festival idioms related to rabbits are: the golden rabbit sets in the west, the jade rabbit rises in the east, and the golden rabbit, the jade rabbit, the silver toad and the jade rabbit smash medicine, all of which mean moonlight. Their explanations and sources are as follows:

1, Jinwu Yutu?

Interpretation: the sun: According to ancient legends, the sun has three legs, so it is called the sun; Jade Rabbit: In ancient legend, there is a jade rabbit in the moon, so the moon is called the jade rabbit. Borrow time. Source: Hao's "Queqiaoxian Qixi": The golden jade rabbit, when I saw it, was just an appearance.

2. When the sun goes down, the Jade Rabbit rises.

Interpretation: Wu: According to legend, the sky is three feet strong, so it is called the sun; Rabbit: It is said that there is a jade rabbit in the moon, so the moon is called jade rabbit. The sun rises in Dongshan, and the moon is in the sky. Refers to dusk. It also refers to time. Source: Songshi Puji's Sixty-Five Odes: Unintentionally Coming from the West, Everywhere. The jade rabbit rises in the east and the golden monkey falls in the west. The mouse is at the head of the bed and the cat is sleeping.

3. Jade Rabbit and Silver Toad

Interpretation: Legend has it that there is Guanghan Palace on the moon, and there are jade rabbits and silver toads in the palace. So compare it to the bright moon in the sky. Source: The Mid-Autumn Festival Full Moon by Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty: According to how many people are heartbroken, Jade Rabbit and Silver Toad are far from knowing.

4. Jade Rabbit:

Interpretation: It means that Gu and Tu are in the belly of the moon. What is good for the moon? How did the rabbit get to the moon palace? Gu is a toad and Tu is a white rabbit. Source: Jin Fu Xuan's "Quasi-Tian Wen" also said: "What is in the middle of the month, the white rabbit is working on medicine."

Extended data:

Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of ancient celestial worship-the custom of worshipping the moon. In the "autumnal equinox" season of the 24 solar terms, it is an ancient "Mid-Autumn Festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Mid-Autumn Festival". In traditional culture, the moon and the sun are the same, and these two alternate celestial bodies become the objects of ancestor worship.

The Mid-Autumn Festival celebration originated from ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of China people's custom of sacrificing to the moon. Sacrificing to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a ritual activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China to "Moon God".

According to research, "Mid-Autumn Festival" was originally set on the day of autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. However, due to the change of the calendar, the lunar calendar (summer calendar) is used, and the date of the August and autumn equinox in the summer calendar is different every year, and there may not be a full moon. Later, the "Moon Festival" was transferred from the twenty-four solar terms in the dry calendar to the fifteenth day of August in the summer calendar (lunar calendar).

Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins.