The Yellow Moon
Look at the face of the moon
The moon can represent my heart
The Water Moon
The Moon's Daughter
Half of the Moon Climbing Up
The Curved Moon
Over the Moon
The Moon in the Two Fountains
Tales: Chang'e Runs to the Moon Wu Gang Loves Gui A Monkey The moon in indigenous oral literature is purely a living being; in Amis mythology, the sun and the moon are a couple who often visit the gods and goddesses who were born from the heavens to be the progenitors of mankind.
Another story is that of Chang'e running to the moon, Wu Gang fighting Gui, and the monkey reflecting the moon.
In another Ami 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 became a couple, but had some strange creatures; the Moon told them, "Because you are brother and sister and should not have gotten married, you should 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; another story tells of a girl who was often abused by her stepmother and preferred to ascend to heaven in order to stop the people from seeking justice for her, and five days later, the people did see the girl's figure on the moon.
Many of the myths of sun shooting regard the moon as what the sun becomes when it is shot; for example, the story of the Atayal tribe tells of a time when there were two suns in the sky, and there was no day and night in heaven and earth, and life was very hard for human beings, so three young men carried babies on their backs on their journey to shoot at the sun, and when the babies that they were carrying had reached the age of maturity, they arrived at the place where they were shot at the sun; and when one of the three men shot an arrow and hit the sun, the sun bled, and then it lost its heat and light and became the moon. The moon, the black shadow is the traces of the arrow wound. The Zou myth is similar but goes further, saying that the red stones seen on the ground are stained by the blood of the sun. The story of some groups has some changes, the content is that in the past, there is only the moon, and the moon does not appear every day, and there is a black shadow on the moon, every night, the earth is dark, grass and trees can not grow, and the people feel very inconvenient, so they sent two young warriors to shoot the moon, decades later, one of them hit the moon with an arrow to remove the black shadow, and then the earth will have normal light.
The story of the Pe?an tribe tells of a time when the earth was flooded, and even the sun and moon in the sky sank into the water, and the five surviving brothers and sisters floated on the sea, and finally found a land; since the earth was dark, they sent a man and a woman to the sky to be the new sun and new moon, so as to look for the other human beings. In the creation myth of the Peinan, the moon and the sun brought children into the world, the first of which was a human being, followed by a monkey, a horse, a deer, a fish, and a bird; later, the Peinan ancestors passed down the idea that the cultivation of groundnuts should be based on the changes of the moon, and that one should not plow when the moon is full, but only when the moon is gradually becoming less full, and that if the moon is shaped like a scythe, then one should not plow it either. 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 ground. They say in unison, "We have done all that is necessary; the moon tonight is the elder brother, the sun in the eastern sky tomorrow morning is the younger brother, and the stars shining in the darkness of the sky are the younger sister; we will always be a blessing to mankind, and good-bye, mother." These episodes clearly show that these groups believe that the sun, moon and stars are made by people. The connection between the moon and the aboriginal farming of the year can also be traced in some stories, such as the aforementioned story of the Peinan tribe. As millet, the staple food of the aboriginal people, was mostly harvested in the fall, and the moonlight on the nights of the fall was particularly bright, the harvest ceremonies or songs and dances of various tribes took place in the bright moonlight, and the sharing of the new grains and the new wine brought the tribesmen back to a cohesive state, and their emotions were relieved, and the people and gods were in harmony. The sharing of new grains and new wine allows members of the tribe to regroup and relieve their emotions, so that they can be in harmony with each other and look forward to the same abundance of food and clothing in the year ahead.
Proverbs:
Thirty nights of wishing for the moon - no hope
Fifteen nights of the moon - fullness
Fishing for the moon on the shore - self-consuming effort; wasted effort; wasted work
Ba La The dog bites the moon - I don't know how high the sky is
The moon in the water - it's empty
Moon in the water - it's empty