As early as 800 years ago, Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, wrote such a famous sentence: "When is the bright moon?" Ask the wine to the sky". That's a good question! Because we are also asking today: When is the bright moon?
The Moon is one of the two largest objects in earth's outer space (the other being the Sun) because the difference in distance appears to be exactly the size of the Moon as the Size of the Sun. And it, like the sun, operates very regularly – rising in the east and setting in the west, every 30 days we can witness a whole process from the new moon, half moon, and full moon.
In terms of the relationship between the moon and mankind, it is almost as important as the sun, which gives us light and enables all things to grow, and the moon expels darkness and fear for us, so that we can have peace of mind.
For this reason, the ancients paid great attention to the moon. From the time of the Merchants, it was the object of religious sacrifice. Many literati of later generations have taken the moon as their source of inspiration and written countless masterpieces that have been passed down through the generations.
But there is no record of the moon in ancient mythology, at least before the "separation of heaven and earth" and "the Great Flood", there is no actual record of the moon, why? It can only be argued that before the Great Flood, there was nothing called the moon in the heavens, otherwise it would not have been unexplained in mythology.
Chinese records of the moon first appeared in the myth of Emperor Jun, the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Great Wilderness Of the West Sutra says: "Emperor Jun's wife Chang Xi, born in the tenth month of the second month, this began to bathe." "Emperor Jun is a figure in the mythology of the Yin Shang people, and only the Great Wild West Classic of the Classic of Mountains and Seas has sporadic records, and there are no other records in any ancient books.
Judging from the records of "Emperor Junsheng Houji", the myth of Emperor Jun is quite late, and the period of almost the invention of writing cannot be compared with the myths of Pangu and Nüwa. ‘
Before the "separation of heaven and earth" and the "Great Flood", there was no record of the moon in China, which can be conclusive.
As we all know, there are records of the "Great Flood" in myths and legends around the world, China has the Great Yu ZhiShui, and the most famous foreign one is the "Noah's Ark", but there is no record of the moon in the legends of these great floods, which is very incredible, because in ancient times, people worshiped the stars in the sky to the extent of madness, but the moon seems to be ignored by them.
After the "Great Flood", legends about the moon began to appear in the myths of various countries, and even the Sumerian civilization, the oldest civilization of mankind, began to record the moon. Does this suggest that the moon may be related to the Great Flood of Antiquity? This can only be left to future generations to reverie.
As for why this situation occurs, many people think that in ancient times, the moon was not in the current position, but relatively far from the earth, and the ancient ancestors could not see or see clearly, so they ignored the moon.
There is also a theory that it may be that the advanced civilizations observing the earth from the outside world found that there seemed to be a problem with the development of life on the earth, and in order to correct this problem and make the development of the earth better to facilitate their observation, they put the moon next to the earth, which explains why the moon is extremely important to the earth today.