According to legend, Chang 'e stole the elixir that her husband Hou Yi begged from the Queen Mother of the West and flew to the Moon Palace. However, Qiong Yu is too high to be cold, and the so-called "Chang 'e should regret stealing the elixir, and the blue sky and the dark night heart" is a portrayal of her loneliness. Later, Chang 'e confided her remorse to her husband and said, "Tomorrow is the night of the full moon. You make pills out of flour, round like a full moon, put them in the northwest of the house, and then keep calling my name. At midnight, I can go home. " The next day, do as my wife says, and then the fruit of Chang 'e flies from the middle of the month and the husband and wife reunite. The custom of making moon cakes for Chang 'e in the Mid-Autumn Festival is also formed.
Mid-Autumn Legend Story 2: WU GANG's Cutting of Guangxi
Legend has it that there are laurel trees in the moon, and Huainanzi once said that "there are laurel trees in the moon". Later, the legend was more specific, and WU GANG, a laurel cutter, was added beside the laurel tree. The legend of WU GANG, a laurel tree in the middle of the month, is the most concrete legend of WU GANG, a laurel tree in the middle of the month, which was recorded in the first volume of Tianzhi before Youyang Za in the Tang Dynasty. It says, "As the old saying goes, there is a laurel tree and a toad in the moon, so different books say that the laurel tree is 500 feet high, and one person often marries it, and the trees are combined. Wu Minggang, a native of Xihe, studied immortals and ordered to cut down trees. " WU GANG once followed the fairy to the sky, but he made a mistake, so the fairy sent him to the moon and ordered him to cut down the fairy tree, the laurel tree. The laurel tree is 500 feet high and can be cut down together. Emperor Yan used this endless labor as a punishment for WU GANG. 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."
It is said that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered his men to hide the note with the words "August 15 Uprising" in the cake, and then sent people to the uprising troops in various places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the evening of August 15. The insurgents responded together, and the insurgents, like a single spark, could start a prairie fire and overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. So Zhu Yuanzhang decided to eat moon cakes every Mid-Autumn Festival. In this way, Mid-Autumn Festival and moon cakes have become an indelible part of China people's blood.
Mid-Autumn Poems:
1, the full moon is cool tonight, and the sky in Wan Li is wide. Su E should be idle. In particular, Mid-Autumn is meant to shine on the world.
2, even the sea level spring tide, the sea bright moon tide.
Who saw the moon by the river for the first time? When did Jiang Yue take the photo at the beginning of the year?
Jathyapple, we heard the melancholy voice of the cuckoo and the sadness of the empty mountain.
5. When will the blue sky and bright moon come? I stopped my glass and asked now.
6. Where are the people who came to see the moon together? The scenery is vaguely like last year.
7. You said you would come, but you didn't come. You left me no trace except the moonlight on your tower at five o'clock.