10 Mid-Autumn Festival legends, tell them to your children during this festive season

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and we who are usually busy have to stop and reunite with our families on this day. Are the children curious about the round and bright moon in the sky? On such a quiet and beautiful night, you might as well tell those long-standing stories to your children… 30 Tang poems for the Mid-Autumn Festival, collect them for your children. Story 1: There is a moon in the sky with fifteen doors, and there is a moon in the moon. Holding a girl. There was also a tengu guarding the door for her. The moon has fifteen gates. On the first day of every lunar month, the moon girl opens the door. As soon as the door opens, a small crescent moon is revealed. On the second day of the lunar month, open another one and the crescent moon will be bigger. Until the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the round moon will be fully exposed. Starting from sixteen, the moon girl would close one door every day. By thirty, all the moon doors were closed, and the moon could no longer be seen. That\’s it, day by day, month by month, year by year. I don’t know what year it was, but a man named Yaxi came. This Yaxi is a voyeur who likes to run quietly outside the moon door and peek at the moon girl. Moon Girl was so angry that she closed all the doors \”pop, pop, pop\”. All of a sudden, the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and there was no distinction between day and night. This is terrible. People all over the world thought that the moon had been eaten by the Tengu and said it was a \”lunar eclipse\”. They took out iron buckets and copper basins and knocked them \”dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang.\” , scared away. The moon girl opened the closed door again and illuminated the world. Story 2: The Legend of Lord Rabbit One year, a plague suddenly broke out in Beijing. Someone in almost every household got it, but it couldn\’t be cured. Chang\’e felt very sad when she saw this scene, so she sent the jade rabbit around her to treat the people\’s illnesses. The Jade Rabbit turned into a girl. She went from house to house and cured many people. In order to thank the Jade Rabbit, people gave her things one after another; but the Jade Rabbit didn\’t want anything. She just borrowed clothes from others and changed her clothes wherever she went. Sometimes she dressed like an oil seller, sometimes like a fortune teller. …Sometimes he is dressed as a man, and now he is dressed as a woman. In order to treat more people, the Jade Rabbit mounted a horse, deer, lion, or tiger and traveled all over the capital. After eliminating the plague in the capital, the Jade Rabbit returned to the Moon Palace. So people used clay to shape images of jade rabbits. Some were riding deers, some were riding phoenixes, some were wearing armor, and some were wearing various workers\’ clothes. They were in various poses and very cute. Every fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, every family would worship her and serve her delicious fruits and beans as a reward for the good fortune and happiness she brought to the world. They would also affectionately call her \”Master Rabbit\” , \”Grandma Rabbit\”. Story 3: Why is the moon so bright? Every year on the night of August 15th, the moonlight illuminates the mountains in front of the village and behind the mountains. The Ami girls gather together to grind rice and sing about the harvest. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a beautiful rainbow bridge connecting Alishan and the moon. It was not difficult to walk from the ground to the moon. Especially on the night of the full moon on August 15th, there were many girls wearing colorful Dago pattern clothes on Alishan. , carrying rattan baskets filled with millet, climbed up Hongqiao one after another and climbed to the moon. There is an osmanthus tree on the moon. Every time the moon is full, it will sway gently in the breeze.Twisting, the branches are full of flowers, exuding a sweet fragrance. The girls heard the old man say: \”If you pick the sweet-scented osmanthus on August 15th and grind it with the new grain, you can ward off disasters and illnesses and stay young.\” The moon at that time was not as bright as it is now, and the color was dim. The girls went up to the moon palace, picked the sweet-scented osmanthus and mixed it into the millet. You pestled me with a pestle, and the rice became white and reflected the moon. One day, a girl in the tribe wanted to climb Hongqiao to the Moon Palace, pick a sprig of sweet-scented osmanthus and pound rice to make porridge for her chronically ill mother. She climbed up the Hong Bridge with the heavy rattan basket on her back. Unexpectedly, as soon as she walked into the moon, the Hong Bridge collapsed with a \”click\”. The girl burst into tears thinking about her mother and could never return to her hometown again. She pounded rice under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree every day, pestle after pestle, until the white rice was fine and thin, even and even. Day after day, year after year, the millet was pestled into white rice, and the white rice was pestled into fine powder. Every August 15th when the moon is full, the girl misses her hometown and her relatives, so she sprinkles the delicate white rice powder into the world. The white rice noodles scatter down one after another, turning into a clear light like water, reflecting the mountains, rivers and earth clearly. bright and clean. The girl looked at the quiet and peaceful villages and huts under the moonlight, silently wishing her father a long life, her mother health, peace at home, and good harvests every year. At this time, the elders in the tribe would point to the moon and say to the younger generations: \”Children, do you know why the moon is so bright on August 15th? That\’s because my sister missed her hometown on the moon and put the white rice noodles on it. Sprinkle it into the world!\” Story 4: Zhu Yuanzhang and the Mooncake Uprising. It is said that eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the vast number of people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty\’s ruling class, and they revolted against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officers and soldiers of the court conducted a very strict search, making it very difficult to convey the news. Military counselor Liu Bowen came up with a plan and ordered his subordinates to put the note with \”uprising on August 15th\” into the cakes, and then sent people to send it to the insurrectionary armies in various places, informing them to respond to the uprising on the night of August 15th. . On the day of the uprising, all rebel armies responded together, and the insurrectionary army was like a spark igniting a prairie fire. Soon, the rebel army captured Yuan Dadu and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he quickly passed down an oral order to let all the soldiers and the people have fun during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and to reward the officials with the \”mooncakes\” that were used to secretly convey the message when the army was launched as seasonal cakes. Since then, the production of \”mooncakes\” has become more and more sophisticated, with more varieties, and the large ones are as big as discs, which have become a good gift. From then on, the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people. Story 5: The legend of moon cakes According to legend, Chang\’e flew to the moon palace after secretly eating the elixir of immortality that her husband Hou Yi begged from the Queen Mother of the West. However, it is too cold to be in the high place. The saying \”Chang\’e should regret stealing the elixir, because the blue sea and sky are in her heart every night\” is a reflection of her loneliness. Later, Chang\’e confided her regrets to her husband and said: \”Tomorrow is the time of the full moon. Make balls of flour, round them like a full moon, place them in the northwest direction of the house, and then call my name continuously. At the third watch, I will It’s time to go home.” The next day, he did as his wife asked, and by then the Chang’e fruit would fly from the middle of the moon, and the couple would be reunited. The custom of making mooncakes as offerings to Chang\’e during the Mid-Autumn Festival was also formed from this. Story six: Wu Gang cut osmanthus. Legend has it that there is a laurel tree in the middle of the moon. \”Huainanzi\” already said that \”there is a laurel tree in the middle of the moon.\” The legend of the osmanthus tree and Wu Gang in the moon is most detailed in the first volume of \”Youyang Zazu\” written by Duan Chengshi of the Tang Dynasty. It is said in a different book that the laurel tree is five hundred feet high, and there is a man below who often chops it, and the tree will follow it. His surname is Wu Gang, a native of Xihe. He has a history of learning from immortals, and he was banished and ordered to cut down trees.\” This means that Wu Gang once followed the immortals to practice Taoism and reached the heaven. , but he made a mistake, so the immortal sent him to the moon and ordered him to cut down the laurel tree, the tree of immortality. The laurel tree is five hundred feet high and can be cut back together. Emperor Yan used this endless labor to punish Wu Gang. There is a record in Li Bai\’s poem \”If you want to cut the laurel in the moon, you will hold on to the salary of those who are cold\”. Story 7: The Jade Rabbit pounded medicine. This legend was first seen in \”Han Dynasty Yuefu·Dong Jingxing\”: \”The Jade Rabbit knelt down and pounded medicine into toad pills, and presented a jade plate to His Majesty. Taking this medicine will lead to immortality.\” According to legend, there is a rabbit in the moon. , the whole body is as white as jade, so it is called \”Jade Rabbit\”. This kind of white rabbit holds a jade pestle and kneels down to pound medicine into toad pills. Taking these pills can lead to immortality. Legend has it that Wu Gang\’s wife had an affair with Boling, the grandson of Emperor Yan. Wu Gang killed Boling in a rage. This angered the sun god Yan Emperor and was sent to the moon to cut down the tree of immortality. But the laurel tree grew back together when it was cut down. Every time Wu Gang struck with an axe, the branches and leaves cut by the axe would grow back onto the tree. After all this time, Wu Gang still could not chop down the laurel tree. Wu Gang\’s wife felt guilty and ordered her three sons to turn into toads, rabbits and snakes and fly to the moon to accompany Wu Gang. In order to help his father cut down the osmanthus tree as soon as possible, the Jade Rabbit kept pounding the cut branches and leaves. Story 8: Drinking alone under the moon. The poet Li Bai wrote about the scene of drinking alone under the moon among flowers. The sentence \”Three people are facing each other\” is wonderfully conceived, expressing his lonely and bold feelings. \”Li\’s Poems Direct Interpretation\”: \”Drinking alone against the moon, enjoying yourself with openness and optimism.\” When the poet came on stage, the background was a flower room, the prop was a pot of wine, the character on the stage was just himself, and the action was to drink alone, adding \” With the words \”no blind date\”, the scene was very monotonous. So the poet suddenly had a whim, pulled the bright moon in the sky and his own shadow under the moonlight, and turned himself into three people, toasting and drinking together, and the deserted scene became lively. Story 9: Xuanzong traveled to the moon. According to legend, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Shen Tianshi and Taoist priest Hongdu looked at the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Suddenly Xuanzong had the idea of ​​​​touring the Moon Palace, so the Tianshi did it, and the three of them walked up to the blue clouds and roamed the Moon Palace. However, the palace is heavily guarded and cannot be entered. The only option is to overlook the Chang\’an Imperial City from outside. On this occasion, I suddenly heard bursts of fairy sounds, which were so clear and beautiful, so mesmerizing! Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had always been familiar with the music, so he kept it in his heart. This is exactly what \”this song should only exist in heaven, and how many times can it be heard in the human world!\” Later, Xuanzong recalled the music and singing of Xian\’e in the Moon Palace, and composed and choreographed the music himself. This is the famous \”Nancy Dress and Feather Clothes Song\” in history. Story 10: Diao Chan worships the moon. Diao Chan was the singing girl of Situ Wang Yun in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Legend has it that Diao Chan was born into the world, and within three years the local peach and apricot flowers bloomed and then withered; Diao Chan worshiped the moon at midnight, and in the moonlight Chang\’e felt ashamed and hurriedly disappeared into the clouds;Diao Chan has a pretty figure, thin ears and green rings. When she walks, the willows are swayed by the wind. When she is quiet, she is elegant. The beauty of Diao Chan is a sight to behold. It is precisely because of this beauty that the manipulative Dong Zhuo and the brave and foolhardy Lu Bu turned against each other, giving the turbulent government and opposition a slight sense of peace.