The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and we usually stop to reunite with our families on this day. Are children curious about the round and bright moon in the sky? On such a quiet and beautiful night, we might as well tell the children a long-standing story. The stories of Mid-Autumn Festival include: the Fifteen Doors of the Moon, the story of a rabbit, the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, the Jade Rabbit entering the Moon Palace, the story of Yue Bai and Diusim, the moon cake uprising, the story of Xuanzong, why the moon is so bright, the Jade Rabbit taking medicine, and WU GANG winning the laurel.
I think there are three stories worth mentioning in Mid-Autumn Festival. Let's take a look:
? One of the Mid-Autumn Festival stories: Grandpa Rabbit's story?
One year, a plague broke out suddenly in Beijing, and almost everyone got it and could not be cured. Chang 'e was very sad to see this scene, so she sent the jade rabbit around her to treat the people. Jade rabbit turned into a girl. She went door to door and cured many people.
In order to thank Jade Rabbit, people gave her things in succession. Yutu wants nothing but to borrow other people's clothes to wear. Wherever she goes, she has to change clothes. Sometimes she dresses like an oil seller, sometimes she looks like a fortune teller ... sometimes she dresses like a man and then dresses like a woman.
In order to treat more people, Yutu rode his horse, deer, lion and tiger all over the capital. After the plague was eliminated in Beijing, the Jade Rabbit returned to the Moon Palace. Therefore, people created the image of Jade Rabbit with clay sculpture, including those who rode deer, those who rode phoenix, those who wore armor, and those who wore various work clothes. It was very cute.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, every household will worship her and give her delicious fruits and beans as a reward for her good luck and happiness. They also affectionately called her "male prostitute" and "grandma rabbit".
? Mid-Autumn Festival Story 2: Why is the moon so bright?
On the evening of August 15 every year, after the moonlight illuminates the mountain in front of the village, the girls in Ah Mui gather in a rice mill and sing songs of harvest. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a beautiful Hongqiao between Alishan and the moon, and it was not difficult to walk from the ground to the moon. Especially on the full moon night of August 15, there are many girls wearing colorful dago clothes on Alishan, carrying rattan baskets full of millet, climbing Hongqiao one by one and landing on the moon.
There is a osmanthus tree on the moon. When the moon is full, it will sway gently in the breeze, and the sweet fragrance will disperse with the flowers. The girls listened to the old man's words and said, "Picking sweet-scented osmanthus on August 15 and grinding it with Xingu will eliminate disasters and diseases, and youth will last forever."
The moon at that time was not as bright as it is now, and its color was dim. The girls boarded the Moon Palace, picked sweet-scented osmanthus and mixed it with millet. As soon as you hit me, you won the white rice, reflecting the bright moon.
One day, there was a girl in the tribe who wanted to visit the Moon Palace in Hongqiao and collect a handful of sweet-scented osmanthus rice to cook porridge for her long-suffering mother. She climbed onto Hongqiao with a heavy rattan basket on her back. Unexpectedly, just as she entered the moon, Hongqiao snapped. The girl thought that her mother was in tears and could never go back to her hometown. She pounded rice under the osmanthus tree every day, and the white rice was fine and even. Day after day, year after year, millet is pounded into white rice and white rice is pounded into fine powder.
On the 15th of August every year, when the moon is full, the girl misses her hometown and her relatives, so she sprinkles fine white powder on the earth, and the white rice noodles swirl down one after another, turning into a clear glow like water, reflecting the scenery clearly. The girl looked at the quiet village and hut in the moonlight, silently wishing her father a long life, her mother a healthy life, a safe home and a bumper harvest every year. At this time, the old people in the tribe will also point to the moon and say to their descendants, "children, do you know why the moon is particularly bright on August 15?" It was my sister who missed her hometown on the moon and sprinkled white rice noodles on the earth! "
? Mid-Autumn Festival Story 3: the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon?
According to legend, in ancient times, there were ten days in the sky at the same time, the crops died in the sun and the people were poor. A hero named Hou Yi has infinite power. He sympathized with the suffering people, climbed to the top of Kunlun Mountain, made full use of his divine power, drew his bow, shot down more than nine suns in one breath, and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time for the benefit of the people. ?
Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people. He 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 came here to study as teachers, and Pang Meng with ulterior motives also 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 instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. 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, only to be seen by the villain Pang Meng, who wanted to steal the elixir of life and become an immortal himself. ?
Three days later, Hou Yi led his entourage out hunting, while Pang Meng, who had ulterior motives, pretended to be ill and stayed. Shortly after Hou Yi led the crowd to leave, Pang Meng broke into the backyard of the Inner Temple with a sword in his hand, threatening Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Pang Meng. 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 floated off the ground, rushed out of the window and 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. Pang Meng has long since escaped. Angry and sad, Hou Yi looked up at the night sky and called 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 incense, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offer a distant sacrifice to Chang 'e at 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.
Our imagination of the moon has a long history, and many stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival confirm this beautiful yearning. There may be a palace on the moon, with a beautiful fairy and a lovely pet rabbit in it. These stories all show the beautiful feelings and wishes of ancient people to attach importance to, worship and explore the moon. Limited by the scientific level at that time, it was impossible to really land on the moon.