According to legend, there was a hero named Hou Yi in ancient times who shot down nine suns for the benefit of the people and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time. Therefore, Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people and married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. Besides hunting, Hou Yi spends all his time with his wife, and people envy this beautiful and loving couple. Many people with lofty ideals also came here to study as teachers, and Meng Peng with ulterior motives joined in.
One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek truth. He happened to meet the Queen Mother passing by and asked her for a bag of elixir. It is said that taking this medicine can immediately ascend to heaven. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily give the elixir to Chang 'e. Chang 'e hid the medicine in the dresser's treasure chest, but the villain Meng Peng saw it. He wants to steal the elixir to make himself immortal.
Three days later, Hou Yi led his entourage out hunting, while Meng Peng with ulterior motives pretended to be ill. Shortly after Hou Yi led the crowd to leave, Meng Peng broke into the backyard of the back room with a sword in his hand, threatening Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Meng Peng. In times of crisis, she made a decisive decision, turned around and opened the treasure chest, took out the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang 'e swallowed the medicine and immediately flew into the sky. Because Chang 'e was worried about her husband, she flew to the nearest moon and became a fairy.
In the evening, when Hou Yi came home, the maids cried and told what happened during the day. Hou Yi was surprised and angry, and drew his sword to kill the villain. Meng Peng escaped early. Angry and heartbroken, Hou Yi looked up at the night sky and shouted the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and bright. There is a swaying figure resembling Chang 'e. He chased the moon desperately, but he chased it three times, the moon retreated three times, he retreated three times, and the moon advanced three times. He couldn't catch up anyway.
Hou Yi had no choice but to miss his wife, so he had to send someone to Chang 'e's favorite back garden, put on a table sweetmeats, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offer a remote sacrifice to Chang 'e who was attached to him in the moon palace. After hearing the news that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon became an immortal, people set up an incense table under the moon and prayed for good luck and peace to the kind Chang 'e. Since then, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai has spread among the people.
WU GANG won.
According to legend, osmanthus trees in front of Guanghan Palace on the moon are flourishing, reaching more than 500 feet. There is a man who often cuts, but after each cut, the cut place closes immediately. For thousands of years, this laurel tree can never be cut down. It is said that this tree cutter named WU GANG, a native of Xihe in Han Dynasty, once followed the immortal to heaven, but when he made a mistake, the immortal demoted him to the Moon Palace and did this futile housework every day as a punishment. In Li Bai's poems, there is a record that "if you want to be in the middle of the month, you will pay for the cold."
Yu Tu Daoyao
According to legend, there is a rabbit on the moon, as white as jade, so it is called "Jade Rabbit". The white rabbit holds a jade pestle and kneels down to pound the medicine into toad venom. Taking these pills can make you live forever. Over time, Jade Rabbit became synonymous with the moon.
Mid-Autumn Festival "Appreciating the Moon"
After the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, Hong Kong people's activities of chasing the moon are still in full swing, and they will come again on the evening of August 16, commonly known as "chasing the moon". /kloc-On the evening of 0/6, people came to the seaside with tent lights, wine and delicacies, listened to the waves and enjoyed the moon, recited poems and played chess, and drank and laughed. At this time, the blue sky and blue sea set each other off with moonlight and candlelight, which is fascinating.
When the moon rises, people in Dong villages in Guangxi step on the moonlight and come to the open area of the mountain village, playing flutes, singing and dancing in unison. Listening to vocal music from a distance is deafening, and watching dancing at close range is like a big stage floating like water in the moonlight.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, when the moon is about to rise, Koreans will scramble to climb the "moon-watching" frame made of wooden poles and pine branches in advance. It is said that whoever sees the moon first will get good luck. Later, people beat gongs and drums, played Dong Xiao, and danced "peasant dance" together.
Walking on the moon is very popular in Suzhou. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, women meet and travel, visit relatives and friends, enjoy the moon and flowers, and come and go in an endless stream until late at night.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chang 'an, Shaanxi, people make reunion buns with sesame seeds and sugar in the middle, which are baked in a pot and eaten by the whole family. This is the so-called "full moon".
Tibetan compatriots searching for the moon spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with the custom of "searching for the moon" in the water. That night, the young children walked along the river, looking for the bright moon reflected in the water, and didn't go home to eat reunion moon cakes until late at night.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Xibe people set up a sacrificial table in the yard, with cut watermelons and other fruits on the table. Then the whole family bowed down to the moon and invited the moon god to come down to earth to taste the fruits of the world. The Oroqen people also have a similar custom, praying for the blessing of the moon god and all the best.
After begging for the Mid-Autumn Festival, unmarried young men in Dongguan, Guangdong Province burned incense in groups of three to five in the moonlight to worship the elderly under the moon. Legend has it that it is time for Yue Lao to match men and women on earth. Yue Lao can find a beautiful and affectionate partner for a pious young man.
According to the moon, there is a folk custom of "according to the moon" in eastern Zhejiang. Legend has it that a woman who has been infertile for a long time can sit alone in the bright moonlight when the Mid-Autumn Festival is full, and pray for the blessing of the moon god to get pregnant and have children.
Fei's Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Appreciation Poem.
Like Huaihai's eyes, the long sea is as white as silver, and millions of rainbow-like lights are pregnant with pearl oysters.
If there is no labor in the sky, the osmanthus tree will grow long and break the moon.
Tang Bai Juyi's "Looking at the Moon on the Pavilion on the 15th of August"
On the evening of August 15 last year, next to the apricot garden by Qujiang Pool.
On the night of August 15 this year, in front of Songpu Shatou Water Hall.
Where is the hometown in the northwest and the full moon in the southeast.
Yesterday, the wind blew and no one would meet. Tonight, the light is as clear as usual.
Song Sushi's Water Melody (written on a Mid-Autumn Festival night to miss my brother)
When did the moon begin to appear? Ask heaven for wine. I don't know about palaces in the sky. What year is this year? I'm going home in the wind. I'm afraid I'm not afraid of the cold. Dancing to see the shadows, the heights are too cold. Turn to the bamboo pavilion, lean on the door, take a sleepless look, there should be no hate, when the long term will be round. The moon is sunny and sunny, and people have joys and sorrows. This matter is old and difficult. I hope people will live for a long time and have a good scenery thousands of miles away.
On August 15, he was accepted by Du Fu of Tang Dynasty.
The full moon flies in the mirror and returns to the heart to fold the sword.
Turn the tent and travel far, climb the laurel and ascend to heaven.
The waterway is suspected of frost and snow, and the forest is covered with feathers.
At this time, I look forward to the white rabbit, and I want to count the autumnal equinox.
("Full Tang Poetry")
This is the poet's work of avoiding chaos and entering Sichuan. In the first two poems, the feeling of watching the moon is aroused, and the moon on August 15, which symbolizes reunion, is used as a contrast of his wandering worries in a foreign land; After the poem, the two couplets depict the Mid-Autumn Night, and the words such as "seeing feathers" and "counting autumn flowers" are fantastic and romantic, which is unique in Lao Du's poems.
Liu Tang Yuxi "Playing the Moon in Taoyuan on August 15th"
Seeing the moon in the dust is also idle, and love is between the fairy houses in the clear autumn.
Long and cold, standing on the highest mountain at this time.
Blue is nothing but Feng Yun, and Songshan grows in the water.
A group of people are moving leisurely, and Gogoing is thousands of miles away.
Shao Jun led me to the jade altar and invited the real fairy officer to come from afar.
Clouds want to move under the starry sky, and the sky is cold with joy.
Jin Xin gradually moved eastward, and the shadow of the wheel still rose.
It is difficult to get back together when it is absolutely beautiful, and he should be disappointed on this day.
("Full Tang Poetry")
Liu Yuxi (772-842), a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Luoyang. This poem has sixteen sentences, and every four sentences have a rhyme, and each rhyme is a natural paragraph. The first paragraph is about playing with the moon in Taoyuan, with the scenery of the moon and the feeling of playing. The second paragraph is about the night of August 15th. The moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival contrasts with the landscape of heaven and earth illuminated by moonlight. The third paragraph is romantic imagination, which describes the feeling of becoming an immortal, from scenery to emotion, producing nature; In the last paragraph, I dragged myself back from my imagination, wrote about sunrise and sunset, and even expressed my feelings about "perfect time" After leaving Taoyuan, it is difficult to relive its significance. The scenery of the whole poem changes at any time, and the artistic conception changes with the scene, which has a sense of ups and downs.
Tang Bai Juyi's "Looking at the Moon on the Pavilion on the 15th of August"
On the evening of August 15 last year, next to the apricot garden by Qujiang Pool.
On the night of August 15 this year, in front of Songpu Shatou Water Hall.
Where is the hometown in the northwest and the full moon in the southeast.
Yesterday, the wind blew and no one would meet. Tonight, the light is as clear as usual.
This poem, when written in Jiangzhou, shows the emotion that extremes meet opposites, and makes a transformation of emptiness in the transformation of time, revealing the transformation of feelings in the transformation of time and space. In contrast, it reveals the sadness in exile.
Don Pi Rixiu's Guizi on the 15th night of August in Tianzhu Temple.
Yu Xing got off the moon wheel and picked up the dew in front of the temple.
So far, the sky doesn't exist, but Chang 'e should be thrown to people.
Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. Like other traditional festivals, it develops slowly. The ancient emperors had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. As early as in Zhou Li, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was recorded. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China. According to historical records, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the book Zhou Li. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a record of "telling Shangshu Town about the cow's confusion, crossing the river in mid-autumn, and traveling incognito around". It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. The prevalence of Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and it became one of the major festivals in China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival.