Stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival
As a cultural festival that has been passed down for thousands of years, there are many stories and myths about this festival. Let us take stock of some stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival. The weather gradually gets cooler in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the autumn breeze brings a refreshing coolness, and the sweet-scented osmanthus fills the air. Every day is new. If you want to know more about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the lunar calendar in August, come and find out with Mr. Shui Mo.Mid-Autumn Festival StoryLegend has it that Chang'e flew to the moon. Chang'e was originally Houyi's wife. After Houyi shot down nine suns, the Queen Mother of the West gave him the elixir of immortality, but Houyi was reluctant to take it and gave it to Chang'e for safekeeping. Houyi's disciple Peng Meng coveted the elixir and forced Chang'e to hand it over. Chang'e had no choice but to swallow the elixir in desperation and flew into the sky. That day was the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, and the moon was big and bright. Because she didn't want to leave Houyi, Chang'e stayed at the moon closest to the earth and lived in Guanghan Palace ever since. Houyi was heartbroken after returning home, so every August 15th he would set up a banquet and reunite with Chang'e facing the moon. Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine There is a jade rabbit beside Chang'e. It is said that when Chang'e's body became lighter and began to rise into the sky, she picked up the white rabbit she had been feeding in panic. The white rabbit went up to the moon with her. The Jade Rabbit has a pestle in the Moon Palace, and at night it pounded the elixir of immortality in a mortar. After this myth was spread to Japan, it turned into the Jade Rabbit pounding rice cakes. Mooncake Uprising It is said that eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the vast majority of people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty's ruling class, and they rose up in rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for an uprising. However, the court officials and soldiers searched very closely, making it very difficult to pass on information. Military counselor Liu Bowen came up with a plan. He ordered his subordinates to hide a note with the words "Revolt on the night of August 15th" inside the cakes, and then sent people to deliver them to the rebel forces in various places, informing them to revolt on the night of August 15th. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel forces responded together. Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so delighted that he immediately issued an oral order, allowing all soldiers and civilians to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival together. He also rewarded his ministers with moon cakes, which were used to secretly convey information when he started the uprising. Since then, the production of moon cakes has become more sophisticated and there are more varieties. After that, the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people. According to legend, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Shen Tianshi and Taoist Hongdu were watching the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Suddenly, Xuanzong had the idea of visiting the Moon Palace, so Tianshi performed a ritual, and the three of them went up to the clouds and roamed the Moon Palace together. However, the palace was heavily guarded and one could not enter, so one could only overlook the Imperial City of Chang'an from outside. At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of immortals. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was well versed in music, so he memorized it in his heart. This is exactly the feeling of “This song should only exist in heaven, how many times can it be heard in the world!” Later, Xuanzong recalled the music and singing of the fairies in the Moon Palace and composed the music and choreography himself, creating the famous “Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat” in history. According to legend, there was a man named Wu Gang in the Moon Palace, who was a native of Xihe in the Han Dynasty. He once followed an immortal to practice Taoism and reached the heaven. However, he made a mistake, so the immortal banished him to the Moon Palace and cut down the laurel tree in front of the Moon Palace every day as a punishment. This osmanthus tree was lush and grew to a height of more than 500 feet. Every time it was cut down, the cut part would immediately close up again. In his poem "Presented to Cui Sihu and Wen Kunji", Li Bai wrote: "I want to chop the moon's laurel and use it as firewood for those in the cold." |
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