Folk tale: Shooting the moon

A long time ago, there was only the sun in the sky, no moon, and no stars. At night, there was black rumbling everywhere, and everyone had to go to bed early.

One night, a moon suddenly appeared in the sky. It was like a flint stone that had just exploded from the mountain, with seven edges and eight corners, not square or round, and it also emitted fiery light filaments, shooting to the ground like an arrow with fire. The moon scorched the seedlings in the fields, dried up the trees in the forest, and even the birds and animals on the ground were so hot that they ran into the river, and the river became turbid. People are miserable.

At that time, there was a young couple living at the foot of The Great Rock Mountain. The man's name was Yala, who shot a good arrow and went up the mountain to hunt. The woman's name is Ni'e, and she is a good weaver, specializing in embroidery at home.

Seeing that the moon was so fierce, Ny'e said to Yara, "You are a good shooter, shoot the moon down, save everyone!" Yara also had this idea, so she patted her chest and said, "You can rest assured, I will never spare this bad thing." ”

So Yara took up his bow and arrow and climbed to the top of the big rock. He mustered up enough strength and pulled his bow and arrow and shot at the moon without hesitation. However, the moon was too high, and the arrow fell in mid-air. He shot a hundred arrows in a row, and the arrows could not reach the moon at all, and they all fell in mid-air. Yara had finished shooting all the arrows he had brought, and he looked up at the hot baking moon, still hanging high in the sky, and looked down at the scorched seedlings and listless people below the mountain, and he couldn't help but sigh a long sigh.

Just when Yara was very frustrated, suddenly, there was a "creak" and the flint block in her back opened like a door. A white-bearded old man came out and said to Yara, "There are big tigers in the south mountain and high deer in the north mountain, if you want to have strong arms, eat the tiger venison." Tiger tendon bows, antler arrows, shoot the moon in clusters. As soon as the words fell, the old man disappeared, only to hear the stone door "squeak" and close again.

The clever Yara understood the old man's words. So he went home and discussed with Nye how to catch the tiger deer. After listening to her husband's words, Ny'e said, "You are very strong in arrows, just shoot with arrows." ”

Yala said, "I have tried to shoot the big tigers of the South Mountain and the tall deer of the North Mountain before, but their skins are thick and primitive, and the arrows can't shoot at all." ”

"Isn't there no way to deal with this abominable moon?" Ny'e was immediately disappointed.

Yara pondered for a moment and said, "I thought the only way to deal with them was to use a large net. But where is the big and particularly strong net nickname? ”

Ni'e immediately touched her long hair and said, "Use my hair to weave this big net." ”

She immediately pulled off her own hair. Her hair was strange, pulling one bunch after another, pulling it out again and again, like silk all the way through. So Yala and Ny'e weaved their nets day and night. They weaved for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and a large net with a lock was finally woven.

On this day, the genius was bright, and the couple took the net to the mouth of the cave of the big tiger in Nanshan and took the net. But after waiting for a whole day, the tiger did not come out of the hole. Yara was a little out of breath, and he wanted to rush into the hole, but Ny'e quickly persuaded him.

It wasn't until midnight that the tiger finally came out looking for something to eat. Taking advantage of the tiger's lack of attention, they quietly netted it from all sides. The tiger was caught in the net, and it kept rolling and roaring inside, and even the mountain god was shocked. However, because the net they woven was too strong, they let it go

How the tiger struggles will not help.

After an hour, the tiger was finally exhausted. So Yara and Ny'e pierced the blind tiger's eyes with iron needles and smashed the tiger's brain shell with an axe. After dawn, it took them a lot of effort to drag the tiger back.

The next day, Yala and Ni'e went to the North Mountain High Deer Cave and used the same method to catch the high deer. Yara finished eating tiger meat and venison, and her body added a thousand pounds of strength. He made tiger tendons into bowstrings, deer antlers into arrows, and climbed the Big Rock Mountain again.

This time Yara was full of confidence, he pulled the bow and arrow, stood on the stake, "stunned", the arrow "whizzed" straight to the moon. With a "crackling" sound, the moon and Mars burst out. Those splashing Sparks scattered in the sky became stars.

The antler arrow touched the moon and turned back into Yara's hand. Yara pulled the bowstring again and shot toward the moon. Nine or eighty-one shots in a row, the edges and corners of the moon were lost, and the sky was splashed with stars. The moon became a round wheel, swirling around in the sky.

But the moon was still hot and hot, still emitting poisonous hot rays of light. Yara went home with a bow and arrow and said to his wife, "Ny'e, what should I do?" The moon is still poisonous! If only I could find something to cover the moon. ”

Ny'e was weaving a large piece of brocade. There is an exquisite house on the brocade, a golden laurel at the door, and a flock of white sheep and white rabbits on the grass. Ny'e embroidered her own image on the osmanthus tree, and prepared to embroider Yara as well, but before she could embroider it.

When Ny'e heard Yala say that she was going to cover the moon with a piece of something, she pulled up the brocade she was weaving and said, "Tie this big brocade to the antlers and shoot it into the sky, maybe it can cover the moon!" ”

Yara thought about it, so she tied the brocade to the antler arrow and climbed the Big Rock Mountain again overnight. With a "whoosh", the brocade shot up to the moon, covering the moon. The moon is no longer poisonous. It began to glow a faint white light, cool and cool.

Yara stood on the top of the hill, smiling and squinting at the moon. Suddenly, I saw that the nyes on the brocade, the osmanthus tree, the white sheep and the white rabbit were all moving on the moon. Ny'e on the moon waved to the ground, and Ny'e, who was standing in front of the house, flew into the sky and flew into the moon, and the two Ny'e formed a Ny'e.

Standing on the top of the hill, Yara saw her beloved wife flying to the moon, and her heart was anxious, and her feet were soft, so she sat down on the stone. He looked at the moon, stretched his throat and shouted, "Ny'e, why don't you weave me into brocade?" Ny'e, come down! ”

Ny'e was also jumping around in the moon. She pulled her hair long and braided a long braid. Then hang the braid down to the top of the mountain. Yara grabbed her braid and climbed up to the moon like an ape.

The two were finally together again. After that, Ny'e sat under the moon's osmanthus tree to weave brocade, while Yala watched over the aries and white rabbits on the grass. They live so sweetly!