August 15 is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in our country, the middle of August in the lunar calendar, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". The moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival is rounder, larger and brighter than other months. Since ancient times, people have had the custom of viewing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon symbolizes reunion, and people are eager to be reunited with their families. In particular, people who cannot be reunited with their parents in distant places look up at the bright moon in the sky like a jade disk, pin their thoughts on their parents in their hometown, and the mood of longing to go home for reunion, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".
In fact, there are many stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival, many of which have a strong mythological color, and have been passed down for a long time and are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Today I will share with you 3 small stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which are not only interesting, but also contain the wisdom of life philosophy.
<h1>A Chang'e running moon</h1>
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a Hercules named Houyi, who saw that there were ten suns in the sky, and the crops were roasted to death, and the people were miserable, so they climbed to the top of kunlun mountain, transported enough divine power, and the sword was sharpened, shooting down nine suns in one breath, leaving a sun. Then he ordered him to rise in the east and fall in the west, to illuminate the world and benefit the people. Houyi was thus respected by the people and became a great hero at that time. HouYi's wife is the beautiful and kind Chang'e, the two langcai women are very well matched, and the husband and wife are very loving and happy.
One day, when Yi arrived at Kunlun Mountain, she happened to see the Queen Mother Niangniang, so she asked for a package of Immortal Elixirs. If you eat this pill, you can immediately leave the mortal world and ascend to heaven and become an immortal. However, how could HouYi ascend to heaven by himself, he was reluctant to Let Chang'e, so he took the medicine home and let Chang'e keep it. At this moment, he was just seen by one of Houyi's disciples with wrong hearts. When Hou Yi led his apprentices out hunting, the apprentices pretended to be ill and stayed at home. He forced Chang'e to hand over the elixir, but Chang'e could not hand over the elixir to him, so he swallowed the elixir himself. After eating the medicine, Chang'e's body suddenly flew to the sky, and flew all the way to the moon and landed on her feet, because this place was the closest to the human world, and Chang'e was worried about her husband Houyi.
Hou Yi went home, knowing that Chang'e had flown away, and called out to Chang'e to the night sky, and he found that the moon was brighter and rounder than ever, and there was a figure on the moon that looked very much like Chang'e. But no matter how Houyi chased the moon, he just couldn't catch up. Hou Yi set up a table in the garden, put on the fresh fruit round cake that Chang'e usually likes to eat, and missed his wife Chang'e against the moon.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the people also set up incense cases to worship the moon and pray to Chang'e to give them a safe and happy life. Since then, the custom of worshipping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival has been passed down.
<h1>Ii. Wu Gang Fa Gui</h1>
There is also a well-known story: there is a legend that there is a Guanghan Palace on the moon, and in front of it grows a luxuriant osmanthus tree, which is said to have a height of more than five hundred zhang, and there is a person cutting down the tree under the tree, but strangely, every time he cuts a knife, the place where he is cut grows immediately. The man who cut down the tree was named Wu Gang. It is said that Wu Gang was a Han Dynasty man, he used to cultivate with the immortals, but he violated the rules of heaven, and in order to punish Wu Gang, the immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace and cut down trees in vain every day to punish him for his mistakes. Thousands of years have passed, but this osmanthus tree can never be cut down.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the people looked up at the night sky and the moon, and said that Chang'e pinned her love for love, and Shu Guang's sleeves danced; Wu Gang held out the mellow osmanthus wine. From now on, heaven and earth, we wish a beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival!
<h1>3. Zhu Yuanzhang's relationship with mooncakes</h1>
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, united all walks of life and declared war on the Yuan Dynasty. In the course of the uprising, the officers and men of the imperial court checked the passers-by, and the various rebel armies could not pass on the news in time. At that time, the military division was Liu Bowen, and he came up with a way to arrange for the officials below to make a lot of round cakes, put the message notes into the round cakes, and send people to the rebel armies.
On the night of August 15, all the armies and horses responded, and the rebel army was like a bamboo, quickly captured Dadu, and the uprising was a complete success. Zhu Yuanzhang happily ordered that the auspicious cake that conveyed the news be given as a Mid-Autumn Festival cake to the officers and men in the army to eat. Later, after widespread circulation, the name of this kind of cake was changed to moon cake, and on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the people can also taste it.
In the future, the production of mooncakes became more and more exquisite, and by the time of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, people gave each other gifts with mooncakes. To this day, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated by the whole country, people eat sweet moon cakes, and they are happy and harmonious with the family, how beautiful and harmonious.
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