Myths and legends
Chang'e to the Moon
Chang'e to the Moon (16 photos) According to legend, in ancient times, there was a man named Hou Yi who married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang'e. Hou Yi was not only a hunter, but also a hunter. Hou Yi in addition to the art of hunting, all day long and his wife together, people are envious of this couple of love. One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit friends and seek Taoism, and coincidentally met the Queen Mother who passed by, so he asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It was said that if you took this medicine, you 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, Peng Meng saw it. Three days later, Hou Yi and his disciples went out hunting, and Peng Meng pretended to be sick and stayed behind. Soon after Hou Yi's departure, 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. In the evening, Hou Yi returned home and his maids cried about what happened during the day. Hou Yi was shocked and furious, and drew his sword to kill the villains, but Peng Meng escaped. Hou Yi, who was devastated, looked up at the night sky and called out the name of his beloved wife. At this time he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and clear, and there is a swaying figure resembling Chang'e. Hou Yi hurriedly sent a man to the moon. Hou Yi hurriedly sent people to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, put on her favorite fruit and honey, and sacrificed to Chang'e, who was fond of herself 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. From then on, the custom of worshipping the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people.
The Legend of Wu Gang Folding the Laurel
Looking at the Moon
Legend has it that the laurel tree in front of the Palace of Guanghan on the moon grows luxuriantly, with a height of more than 500 zhang, and that there is a man who often cuts it down, but every time he cuts it down, the cut place immediately closes up again. For thousands of years, it was cut down and closed up in this way, and the laurel tree could never be cut down. It is said that the man who cut down the tree was named Wu Gang, a native of Xihe in the Han Dynasty, who had followed the Immortals to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the Immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace to do this kind of futile hard work, as a punishment. Li Bai's poem, "I want to carve the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for those who are cold", is a record.
Zhu Yuanzhang and moon cake uprising
Mid-Autumn Festival eating moon cakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the people of the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty ruling class and rose up against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court searched very closely and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bo Wen, the military advisor, came up with a plan, ordering his subordinates to hide a note with the words "Rise on the 15th of August" inside a cake, and then sent his men to send it to all the rebel armies, informing them that they would rise up on the night of the 15th of August to respond to the revolt. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel armies responded together, and the rebel army was like a prairie fire. The uprising was successful. Later, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital, the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he hurriedly sent down an oracle, in the coming Mid-Autumn Festival, let all the generals and soldiers to have fun with the people, and will be the year when the military to secretly convey information "moon cake", as a festival pastry reward for the ministers. Since then, the "moon cake" production more and more fine, more varieties, as large as a disk, become a gift of goodies. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating mooncakes has spread among the people.
The Moon Myth of the Bunun
The Flowering Moon
In the ancient times, there were two suns in the sky, taking turns to irradiate the earth in the sky, resulting in the earth having no day and night, and the scorching heat made the life of human beings very inconvenient. A couple worked diligently on the plow, placing their sleeping baby on a rocky outcrop in the shade of a tree and covering it with a palm leaf. Unexpectedly, the baby was still being exposed to the cruel sun and turned into a lizard to hide in the cracks of the rock pile. Knowing this, the father was very angry and vowed to avenge the death of his child by shooting down the sun. Before embarking on the journey, the father planted an orange tree in front of the house beforehand, and set off to the place where the sun rises, ready to seal it before the sun rises in the sky, the father of the precise shooting skill did shoot the sun's one eye, the sun's light disappeared into the moon, the moon closed its eyes, and reached out to grab people indiscriminately, due to too big a palm, the father broke free from his fingers and escaped. As one sun was wounded and turned into the moon, the other sun was too afraid to rise up to shine on the earth, so the earth was plunged into darkness, and people could not go out to work, nor could they find food, and life was very difficult. If the clan had to go out, they had to throw stones first, by the sound of the stones falling to the ground to determine whether the road ahead or the abyss, a Qiang went out to forage for food, was hit in the head by the stones thrown by the people, and the blood flowed like a stream of blood, the Qiang couldn't stand the pain, and let out an angry roar, and then a strange thing happened, the sun was hidden by the Qiang's roar, and was scared into the air to shine again, and the people returned to their normal lives. People resumed their normal lives, but a beautiful scar was left on Qiang's forehead. Later, the moon taught the father of the sun-shooter the rituals and taboos of various ceremonies, such as: not to eat sweets during the hunting and sowing ceremonies, or else there will be a bad year or the prey will not be hit; and to hold a child sacrifice when the moon is full, or else the child will get sick and die. When my father returned to the tribe, he began to teach the people about the rituals, and by the time everyone had learned all the rituals, the orange tree had grown into a big tree. That is why several communities in the Bunun tribe use the leaves of the orange tree as sacrificial vessels when performing rituals.
American Moon Legends
The moon in Aboriginal oral literature is purely an individual being with a living breath of life; in Amis mythology, the sun and the moon are a couple who often visit the gods and goddesses who were born from the heavens as the ancestors of mankind. In another Amis myth, the moon teaches a brother and sister who survived the flood how to get close enough to have normal children, because the brother and sister followed the sun's advice and were united as husband and wife, but had some strange creatures; the moon tells them, "Because you are brother and sister and should not have gotten married, you have to dig holes in a mat and put it between you, so that you can have a good heir. ." Later, the sibling couple did produce four children, the ancestors of mankind; there is also a story about a girl who was often abused by her stepmother, and in order to prevent people from seeking justice for her, she preferred to ascend to heaven, and five days later, people did see the girl's figure on the moon. Another Amis legend mentions that two brothers and their sister, having fulfilled their mother's promise to comfort their father's spirit in heaven, danced with great joy; as they danced, they gradually plunged into the earth. They say in unison, "We have done all that we had to do; the moon to-night is the elder brother, the sun in the eastern sky to-morrow morning is the younger brother, and the stars that shine in the dark air are the younger sister; we will always benefit mankind, and good-bye, mother." These episodes clearly present that these communities believe that the sun, moon and stars are made by man.
The Moon Legends of the Atayal
Many of the sun-shooting myths of the Atayal see the moon as being transformed into the sun when it is shot. For example, there is the Atayal moon story. The story recounts that in the past there were two suns in the sky, and there was no distinction between day and night in heaven and earth, and human beings had a very hard life, so three young men were chosen to carry babies on their backs on a distant journey to shoot the sun, and later on, the babies on their backs became adults, and only then did they arrive at the place where the sun had been shot; and one of the men shot an arrow and hit the sun, which bled and gradually lost its light and heat and became the moon, and the black shadow is the traces of the arrow's wound. The Zou myth is similar but goes further to say that the red stones seen on the ground are stained by the blood of the sun. The story of some groups has some variations, its content is that in the past there is only the moon, and the moon does not appear every day, and the moon has a black shadow, every night, the earth is dark, grass and trees can not grow, the people also feel very inconvenient, so they sent two young warriors, went to shoot the moon, and after decades, one of them hit the moon with an arrow to remove the black shadow, and then the earth will have normal light.
Gypsy Moon Legend
Once upon a time there was a gypsy woman who had been married to her husband for many years without having any children. One night she prayed to the moon to grant her a child. Soon after she was pregnant, but when the child was born, they found that the child did not have the dark complexion and dark brown eyes of the gypsies, but gray eyes and silvery-white skin, and the gypsy man was very angry, thinking that his wife had betrayed him, and was determined to kill the child. Unable to bear it, the gypsy woman took the little child to the mountains and abandoned him. The moon then took care of the child from then on. Whenever the moon was full, the child was well behaved, and whenever it turned into a crescent, the child cried, and the moon made a cradle for him and coaxed him to stop crying.
The moon's elegant name
The moon's beautiful name and elegant name Jade rabbit, luminous, Su'e, ice wheel, jade wheel, jade toad, Gui Pui, toad, Gu rabbit, Cindy, Jade bow, Jade laurel, jade plate, jade hook, jade mirror, ice mirror, Guanghan Palace, Chang'e, Jade goat and so on. The Jade Rabbit (I want to climb the stairs to see the Jade Rabbit, who opens the curtain to cover the silver que--Xin Qiji); Night Light (What is the virtue of the Night Light that it dies and breeds again? --Qu Yuan); Su'e (Su'e is the moon's nickname - "Young Learning Qionglin"); Ice Wheel (who hangs the jade hook, the ice wheel has no rut - Lu You); Jade Wheel (Jade Wheel rolls the dew and wets the light, the luanpei meets the osmanthus fragrance); Jade Wheel (Jade Wheel rolls the dew and wets the light, the luanpei meets the osmanthus fragrance). The Jade Wheel (The Jade Wheel is wet with dew, the Luan Pei meets the Gui Xiang Stranger - Li He); Jade Toad (Outside the cool night and the misty sky, there are three or five Jade Toads in autumn - Fang Gan); Gui Prana (The Gui Prana flies to the place where the light shoots out, and coldly drenches the day with the blue color of autumn - Su Shi); Toad Toad (The toad is lost and reunited when the Min country sails away - Jia Dao); Gu Hare (The bird has not yet left the valley, and Gu Hare is half-hidden - Li Bai); Canyuan Juan (Wishing for a long life, a thousand miles of **** Canyuan - Su Shi); Jade Plate (The jade platter is in the autumn of three to five jade toads - Fang Gan) ); Jade Plate (When I was young, I didn't know the moon, I called it a white jade plate - Li Bai);
Related Heteronyms
The moon of the first two or three days of the year - unknown. The moon on the seventh and eighth day of the year - half cloudy. There is no moon on the first day of the Lunar New Year - it is the same every year. Looking forward to the moon on the 30th day of the New Year - delusional. The moon on the night of the thirtieth is hopeless. The moon on the first day of the lunar month is treacherous at both ends. The moon on the fifteenth day is perfect. The moon follows the sun - borrowing light. The moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth month - bright. The moon follows the sun - sparing the light Astronauts on the moon - breaking the world record for high jump Rocket to the moon - going far away
Aliens say
On July 20, 1969, at 22:56 EST, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon, and astronaut Armstrong became the first Earthling to set foot on the moon in human history. In the live TV broadcast that made the whole world boiling, people suddenly heard astronaut Armstrong say: "...... Unbelievable! ...... There are other spaceships here ...... They're watching us!" The signal was suddenly cut off thereafter, for which NASA never provided any explanation. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. government announced the termination of all moon landing programs, and the reason behind this decision remains the ultimate secret in human spaceflight history. What happened to Armstrong on the moon when he said that? What was NASA hiding from us? To discourage other countries from going to the moon to research, mine its resources, etc.? (INSIDER TIP: The U.S. government has actually been secretly landing on the moon frequently!) ! In recent years, several U.S. astronauts who landed on the moon, including Armstrong, have repeatedly made statements on various occasions that they "had contact with aliens on the moon", which triggered an international furor. And insider rumors: the U.S. government has been secretly frequent moon landing!