Where did WU GANG come from, and why did he appear on the moon to cut laurel trees?

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a bright moon in the sky, and you can vaguely see some dark shadows shaking in the moonlight. This is the legendary "WU GANG's felling of Guangxi". Who's WU GANG? How did he get into the Moon Palace? Why do you chop osmanthus trees with an axe all the year round?

There is a legend from ancient times. Tell it to everyone. In fact, WU GANG is a mortal, and his life is ordinary. After marriage, men plow and women weave, just like most ordinary couples in China at that time.

But one day, I don't know why, WU GANG suddenly fell in love with monasticism. It is said that he can live forever after cultivating immortality. So he ignored his wife's advice and went to Xuexian Road, Buzhoushan.

There is only one beautiful young wife left at home. At this moment, another man appeared. This man is said to be Yan Di's grandson, named Bo Ling.

Berlin is fond of WU GANG's wife, so he often makes excuses to go to Wu Gang's house to help WU GANG's wife do some farm work. When he is free, he will tell some jokes, while Berlin is still young. After a while, the two young people began to have a good impression on each other.

It's a bit like the dog blood drama we often see on TV now. Finally, Buring and WU GANG's wife came together. Wu's wife doesn't know when her husband will come back, and even suspects that her husband is still in the world. Women have no other choice at this time.

Three years passed quickly, and Wu's wife gave birth to three children in one breath. Just as they were looking forward to a happy life in the future, WU GANG came back.

For more than three years, WU GANG devoted himself to practicing in Buzhoushan, and he really became an immortal. When he got home, he originally wanted to surprise his wife, but he didn't expect the cuckold husband to be on his head.

Seeing that the house was occupied by pigeons, the angry WU GANG swung an axe and hacked Buring to death. This is a big problem. Berlin is the grandson of Emperor Yan. Even if you do something wrong, you won't die.

Emperor Yan was furious and ordered WU GANG to be exiled to the deserted Moon Palace, where there was a osmanthus tree. Emperor Yan ordered WU GANG to cut down osmanthus trees and when he could return to the world. That is a laurel tree with self-healing ability. Wu Gang cut a gap with one axe, and when he wanted to cut the second axe, the gap automatically became bigger.

WU GANG was helpless. In order to return to the world, he had to cut down osmanthus trees in the Moon Palace alone. Later, Chang 'e flew. Chang 'e flew to the Moon Palace because she stole the fairy medicine from her husband Hou Yi. Two people in the same boat met at the Moon Palace.

What happened after that? Three children in WU GANG were sent to the moon by Wu's wife. One turned into a rabbit, one into a toad and one into a snake. Suddenly, the deserted moon palace came back to life.

In order to get home as soon as possible, WU GANG cut down this laurel tree day and night. Although he knew it was futile, he still hoped that his actions would move Emperor Yan and let himself and his three children go home and reunite with his wife. Everything in the past is over, and he doesn't want to pursue it any more, as long as the family can live happily together.

Therefore, the moon we see today is always a swaying figure, which is WU GANG's struggle to go home for a boat ticket. One day in the sky, one year on earth, I don't know if my wife is still alive. If I can do it all over again, I won't make the same mistake again, Wu Gang thought.

WU GANG is a character in a fairy tale. When I was a child, I often heard my father tell the story of WU GANG cutting down trees on the moon, so every day when the moon is full, I always look up at the moon and take a closer look. There are really numbers. WU GANG is very good. Cutting down trees on the moon never stops. The story of WU GANG is deeply imprinted on my mind, and I can't forget it.

There is a story about WU GANG cutting down trees on the moon, which first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Duan in the Tang Dynasty wrote in Tian Zhi in the book Youyang Za, "As the old saying goes, there is a laurel tree in the middle of the month and a toad in the middle of the month. Therefore, in another book, it is said that the osmanthus tree is five feet high, and there is a man under it, who has a long life and is made of trees. Wu Minggang, a native of Xihe, is a fairy and ordered to cut down trees. "

This is the story. WU GANG, also known as Wu Quan, is a native of Xihe and the grandson of Emperor Yan. WU GANG left home for three years, studied mountain roads, had an affair with WU GANG's wife, and gave birth to three sons. WU GANG killed Boling in a rage. Because he angered the Sun God of Emperor Yan, he sent WU GANG to the moon and ordered him to cut down the laurel tree, which was 500 feet high. Emperor Yan used this kind of endless cutting. WU GANG's wife also felt guilty for her husband's experience and ordered her son to join the army and fly to the moon to accompany WU GANG. One became a "toad" and the other a "rabbit".

Chairman Mao wrote this poem in A Recent Reply to Li Shuyi.

In this well-known poem, there are two fairy tales related to the moon, one is the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, and the other is WU GANG chopping laurel trees. Everyone is familiar with the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon. Where is WU GANG from? Why do you want to cut down trees on the moon?

WU GANG, a native of Shanxi, is a fairy who made a mistake. In the myth about the moon, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon has a long history, but WU GANG landed on the moon, which was not recorded until the Tang Dynasty. Tang Duan Shicheng's Youyang Miscellaneous Field Records;

Xihe River is now in Fenyang, Shanxi. From this record, we can know that WU GANG was a Taoist priest in Fenyang, Shanxi. He made a mistake when he was studying immortals, and was banished to the Moon Palace to chop down osmanthus trees. So what did WU GANG do wrong? This record is not explained, but it is recorded in the ancient wonderful book Shan Hai Jing:

Some people think that Wu Quan here is the later WU GANG. Wu Quan wore a big "green hat" for himself because of his wife. He not only had an affair, but also gave birth to three children! Even men couldn't stand it, so WU GANG killed Boling in a fit of pique, but Boling was Yan Di's own grandson. So WU GANG was banished to the Moon Palace, and his main task was to cut down osmanthus trees. Every time he finished cutting, he would close the door, and WU GANG would never finish cutting.

Wu Gang's felling of Guangxi is the embodiment of primitive social thinking consciousness. Ancient myths and legends reflect the thinking consciousness of primitive society. WU GANG's story reflects the awakening of ancient people's rebellious consciousness.

Many myths in primitive society reflect people's rebellious consciousness, such as Kuafu's Japanese War, Houyi's shooting at the sun, Jingwei's land reclamation, and Dayu's flood control. , all have the attitude of persistent struggle and hard struggle. These struggles are between man and the environment and nature, but WU GANG's attack on Guangxi reflects the struggle between man and "God", or the struggle between man and those in power, with the bud of class resistance consciousness.

This story also reflects the labor consciousness of our ancestors.

The punishment of "cutting down osmanthus trees" is a symbol of hard work. It reflects the ancestors' understanding of labor: there is no end to repetition. This is God's cruelest punishment for people. The story endowed primitive society with the deepest labor consciousness. Generation after generation, life goes on, they are all working.

The Moon Palace and Wugang also embodies the ancestors' exploration of nature.

Facing the shadow in the bright moon, due to the limitation of understanding, he developed his imagination, shaped the beautiful Chang 'e and hardworking WU GANG, and embodied the spirit of our ancestors to explore nature. It is this spirit that makes mankind progress continuously.

The story of Wu Gang's cutting Guangxi is not as widely known as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's, but also a legendary story.

Legend has it that WU GANG turned out to be a monk in the Han Dynasty. He didn't want to get married and have children in order to cultivate immortality, which made his parents sad. Later, he went out alone to seek longevity and ran away from home. Old parents helped each other find his son, and later he died. Later, WU GANG was refined into an elixir and went to heaven after eating it. However, because he was unfilial to his parents, he angered the emperor and was punished by the emperor for cutting down osmanthus trees, saying that as long as he cut down osmanthus trees, he would be exempted from punishment. But every time WU GANG cut an axe, the osmanthus tree would heal immediately, so WU GANG cut more and never cut down the osmanthus tree again.

There are other versions of this legend, and the final result is that WU GANG cut down the laurel trees that can never be cut down.

WU GANG and Chang 'e, who flew to the moon, are in the lonely Guanghan Palace. One is doing eternal hard work, and the other is endless loneliness. It can be seen that the Moon Palace is actually a place of punishment, much like the cold palace on earth.

Everyone in the world likes warmth rather than cold. Immortality is a mortal's wish. Chang 'e stole the elixir to become immortal, and WU GANG was determined to cultivate immortality. However, due to moral mistakes, both of them had to go through experience and long-term labor and suffering in Guanghan Palace.

Fairy is different. Anyone who breaks the law will be punished by the Emperor of Heaven. In ancient Greek mythology, there was a similar punishment. That's Prometheus who stole the fire. He set fire to the world, but he was punished for breaking the dogma. Every day, he was pecked by an eagle and endured great pain, but his liver always grew back and was pecked by an eagle.

This is much heavier than the punishment of cutting down osmanthus trees. The same will never stop. Endlessness is actually the greatest punishment.

Compared with Greek mythology, gods and people in China mythology are selfish, or more like human beings, like Chang 'e, who secretly took the elixir of life with the idea of becoming immortal. WU GANG, for example, abandoned his parents for immortality. They reflect the common working people's yearning for immortality in China, which is very true. Just like the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, "Wu Gang cut the laurel" is a well-known moon myth and legend, so why does WU GANG always cut down trees on the moon? Look at the following versions of myths and legends:

A cuckold said:

Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Jing records:

According to this passage, some people think that Wu Quan is WU GANG. He was cuckolded by Berlin, and his wife A Nv later gave birth to three sons. WU GANG was furious and killed Berlin, so Emperor Yan sent WU GANG to the moon and ordered him to cut down the immortal osmanthus tree.

This legend is only imagined by the surnames of WU GANG and Wu Quan. Emperor Yan is just a sun god, and Yin and Yang are opposite. How could he send WU GANG to the moon?

Second, falling in love with Chang 'e said:

Legend has it that WU GANG, the commander of Nantianmen, often sneaked out to meet Chang 'e on duty. When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he was punished as a lumberjack in the Moon Palace, and said that he would never see Chang 'e again unless all the laurels were cut off. WU GANG tried to cut down trees, but whenever he was about to finish cutting down, he was disturbed by crows sent by the Jade Emperor, so WU GANG was always cutting down trees.

This legend is obviously tailored for Chang 'e, perhaps people just can't bear the loneliness of Chang 'e Moon Palace, or maybe they want to make the myths and legends more secular.

Third, the plague said:

Legend has it that WU GANG was originally from Xianning. A long time ago, there was a plague in the local area, and WU GANG's mother fell ill. Under the guidance of Guanyin, WU GANG climbed to the Moon Palace through the ladder on Guibang Mountain to steal osmanthus. When the Jade Emperor found out, he was moved by his filial piety, but he couldn't easily modify the dogma, so he asked him to cut laurel and said when he could go home after cutting the tree. But how can a mortal cut a sacred tree, so WU GANG is still cutting trees.

This legend is the most touching version, but the appearance of Guanyin has traces of the integration of Buddhism and Taoism, and it is more likely to be a legend after the Song Dynasty.

Four, "Youyang Miscellaneous Language" said:

At present, the earliest document about "Wu Gang cutting Guangxi" can be found is Youyang Zayu in the Tang Dynasty, which mentions:

As the old saying goes, there is a laurel tree in the moon and a toad in the moon, so different books say that the laurel tree is 500 feet high, and there is a person who often loves it, and the tree is combined. The surname is Wu Minggang, from Xihe. He learned from the gods and ordered the tree to be cut down. According to the stone book, there are Yanfu trees in the south of the mountain, and their shadows enter the moon. Or in the middle of the month, the shadows of toad and laurel are also in the air, and Shui Ying is also in the air, which is almost the same.

This article introduces that WU GANG, a native of Xihe, once studied Xiandao and was ordered to cut down trees because of his fault. Xihe River is located in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, and folk customs believe that osmanthus trees can protect spirits, which may be the origin of the legend of Wu Gang's felling of osmanthus.

The moon is different from the moon. The moon is the place where the flying machine lost its way when three countries threw garbage on it recently. This is a dead place. Although everyone wants to survive there and turn it into their own homestead. The moon is not like this, it is a place where life is worse than death. This is a prison and a gathering place for fugitives. WU GANG is the first prisoner to come here to serve his sentence.

Houyi shot down nine suns. For some reason, the Queen Mother of West Kunlun Mountain gave Hou Yi an elixir, but if he had a wife, he would give one. Chang 'e is not a good wife either. In the past, Hou Yi killed a seal snake and cooked food for her in another way. Children and grandchildren don't know how thick it is, but they all ate it up in the end. Chang 'e's staple food is Zhajiang Noodles crows. Chang 'e's crow fell ill and gave up any illusions about Houyi. He swallowed the only elixir of life and flew to the moon. Hou Yi drew his bow and shot it out. Unfortunately, he was old, and only heard a bang. The moon shook and didn't fall. It seems that Hou Yi is really old. This story was told to me by Lu Xun. Lu Xun is a master and an authority, and we have always trusted him.

Chang 'e wavered on the moon before gaining a foothold. Fortunately, Hou Yi's arrow missed him. Before I realized it, I looked at the tree beside my mother-in-law and thought of a question, "Where to sleep tonight?" At this time, an old man ran out of the bushes with a huge axe in his hand and a fist in his hand: "Welcome, welcome." Chang 'e thought. The bearer said, "I am WU GANG, and you are the second child. I am a civil engineer from heaven. You use your brain to send information. I'll build you a house first. " Not the kui is a senior native of the moon. With years of work experience, Chang 'e's residence was built in a short time. (This short passage is from The Romance of Seventy-two Changes by Taoist Lei in Ming Dynasty. )

When the new house was built, Chang 'e moved to a new home. WU GANG came to congratulate her (although he built the house, he still had a sense of ceremony). WU GANG is holding a big jar of osmanthus wine. Chang 'e got nothing, at least she picked some laurels from the tree to thank her. For the first time in many years, neighbor WU GANG drank heartily. He accidentally got drunk and talked about his past.

"I live on the earth, and I come from Xihe. I was a carpenter. I thought carpentry was boring, so I thought about being a fairy and went to the mountains to find a fairy. But the fairy played a trick on me and made a mistake, so she brought me here. She also said that she would let me go back when I cut down all the trees here. However, this tree is very strange, as high as 500 feet, and it has just been cut down and grown again. No, I've been cutting it until now. I don't think I can be a fairy, but I'm still a carpenter. " (WU GANG's complaint was made by Duan in Youyang Miscellanies in the Tang Dynasty. )

Then, another beautiful woman gets married, and you can play landlords. Later, a fairy named Song Wuji was also banished to the moon ("Playing the firefly window" in the Qing Dynasty) to join in the fun. Great, mahjong, Shuang Sheng and entertainment programs have also increased. It could have been more fun, but Yu Yi got on the wrong bus and flew to the sun.

(Run to the moon after the knot)

Besides entertainment, I also started farming. Naturally, Chang 'e raises a jade rabbit. Guess who raises a toad.

That's great, a good allocation of land, so that they are not serious at all and become a place that everyone yearns for. Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, do you envy their life or their reunion? Maybe both. Finally, I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Where did WU GANG come from and why did he appear on the moon to cut osmanthus trees? ...

In fact, WU GANG is Hou Yi!

This should start from the tenth day in ancient times. In ancient times, the Emperor of Heaven and the God of the Moon were always blessed with ten sons, all of whom were three-legged suns. Di Jun sends one of his brothers around the world every day to nourish everything. Children always patrol alone for a long time, which makes them feel bored. At this time, it is the opportunity for the lich to compete for the hegemony of heaven and earth. The blood of the witch clan and the demon clan between heaven and earth is bloody. The sage of western religion allowed him to sneak into Fusang Island and persuaded ten brothers to tour the world together, which led to the drying up of the world and the mass extinction of the lich. Houyi, the witch of Wumen, stepped forward and shot ten suns in one shot!

After Hou Yi shot nine, the last one was saved by the sage Nuwa, the later Taoist Lu Ya! Di Jun was so angry that he wanted to kill Hou Yi, but the Wu clan was powerful. Hou Yi, a wizard, was originally from Zhu Rong tribe and was rescued by Zhu Rong and others. Zhu Rong picture:

After this happened, Luna often vowed to get back at Xi! Separating one's soul from oneself, the lower bound was born in the body of Terran Chang 'e. At that time, the Terran between heaven and earth was weak and sheltered by the witch territory. After a long time, Yi fell in love with Chang 'e at first sight, because witches and terrans are both gods and mortals. It is impossible to get together. So the two men lived together as husband and wife in places far away from their respective tribes. But Xian Fan is different. After a long time, Chang 'e saw her husband's indomitable spirit and magical power every day. The appearance has not changed. And a hundred years later, I am just a cup of loess. So I am not happy every day! Chang 'e in the Heavenly Palace felt that the time had come, so she became a Taoist priest, took a panacea and gave it to Chang 'e, telling her that as long as you take it, you can be with heaven and earth. Turn around and leave after sending it out. Chang 'e is full of doubts, but in order to be with Hou Yi forever in the future, she gritted her teeth! I didn't expect to fly to the moon palace after filming. This is the origin of the legend (Chang 'e should regret eating the elixir, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the night is bright). After Houyi found out, he strode to chase Chang 'e.

Don't you know that the Moon Palace is the location of the rising sun and the moon god? He was brought here to kill him. When Hou Yi came here, he was besieged by all the great sages of the demon race and was dying. Houyi's hunting for nine days was stopped by the three sages of Taoism, and he made great achievements in heaven and earth. He shouldn't die! However, after Chang died, he had to die. Later, Daozu Hong Jun erased Houyi's soul town and turned it into her husband WU GANG cutting down osmanthus trees. When it was cut off, he restored Hou Yi's wizard status and continued to be with Chang 'e. Chang 'e replaced Chang 'e Xi as the master of the Moon Palace. This osmanthus tree is transformed from the essence of sunflower water in the sky, and it will recover every time it is cut down. WU GANG can only be cut down in chaos forever until the catastrophe of heaven and earth comes ... This is the origin of WU GANG!

(1) WU GANG made a mistake in learning immortals and was fined for cutting down osmanthus trees. The story of Wu Gang cutting laurel trees in the middle of the month first appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, Youyang Za, Volume I, Tianzhi wrote:

In the middle of the month, there are laurel trees and toads. These laurels are 50 feet tall. There is a man with an axe under the tree, and the injured part of the trunk is cut together and intact. So who is doing this endless chore? He is WU GANG. According to legend, he was punished for cutting down trees here because he made a mistake while learning fairy tales.

As for being punished, the book is vague. It is not clear whether it was ordered by the Emperor of Heaven or arranged by the master.

Youyang Zaju specifically mentions quotations from other "different books", that is, other strange books. It seems that there should be an older record, but people can't see it today.

(2) WU GANG's name is "Gang" and "Quality", and the name refers to the axe! Tang's poem "Li Ping Yong Yin" said: "Wu sleeps, leans on laurel trees, flies barefoot, and flies wet and cold rabbits."

Yao quoted Preface to Ming He Dong: "WU GANG has a good character, and he cut laurel in the middle of the month."

"Mid-Autumn Festival People in the Same Courtyard" in Shidao, Yuan Wu: "I lean on a tree and pity Wu all night. Where can I go upstairs to find it?"

In the Qing Dynasty, Ji Yun's Notes on Yuewei Caotang continued the Four Records of Luanyang: "Relying on trees to think about Wu quality, reciting poems to remember Xu Tang."

Therefore, when we hear someone say that a man named Wu Zhi cut down a tree in the middle of the month, don't think that he is wrong, and don't think that other people are cutting down trees besides WU GANG. Wu Zhi is WU GANG.

In fact, the word "gang" and the word "quality" have different meanings. When I say stiff, I mean something sharp and powerful, that is, the axe in WU GANG's hand. And "quality" refers to the chopping board, that is, the object that is padded when chopping. And "quality" also means "spear", which can refer to both chopping block and axe. Axe spear (quality) refers to axe.

So both "rigidity" and "quality" imply the axe in WU GANG's hand. That is to say, WU GANG, by name, is a risk-averse who is destined to cut down trees with an axe.

(3) WU GANG is not the only one who has an axe on the moon. There are more than 82,000 "construction teams". Although there are not many ancient books and texts about WU GANG, we can find that the moon always seems to be related to an axe in myths and legends.

In the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi wrote in his poem Fan: "It's a full moon, and there are still women riding the moon."

This poem quotes the legend of Yu Fu repairing the moon.

This story is also recorded in Youyang Za:

During the Yamato period in the Tang Dynasty, two people were playing together in Songshan Mountain and got lost. The two climbed mountains and mountains. The farther they go, the deeper the road. You see, it's dusk. When I was helpless, I suddenly heard snoring in the grass. They hurried over to see what was going on, only to see a head wrapped in white cloth and covered with a bag, sleeping soundly.

The two men quickly woke the sleeping man and asked him, "We are lost. Do you know where the official road is? " The man looked up at the two men, closed his eyes and went back to sleep. They were so anxious that they called the man and finally woke him up. The man sat up unhurriedly and called to them, "Come here".

They approached the sleeping man and asked him where he came from. The man smiled and said, "Have you ever heard that the moon is made up of seven kinds of treasures?" Two people, unknown so. The man went on to say, "The moon looks like a projectile. Its light and shadow edges are often baked by the sun and need to be repaired." There are 82,000 workers on the moon who specialize in repairing the moon (84,000 families, not 84,000 people). You are one of them. "

The man hinted that they had forgotten about it long ago.

As he spoke, the man opened the bag and took out a bunch of tools such as an axe and chisel from it. It seems that this is specially used to repair the moon. Then he took out two packages of rice made of jade chips and handed it to them. He said, "Eat this rice. Although you may not live forever, you can be sure that you will not get sick in the future. "

After that, the man stood up, pointed to the road ahead with his finger and said, "If you go forward from this road, you will naturally reach the official road." As soon as the voice fell, people disappeared.

From this story, we know that there are not only WU GANG and Chang 'e on the moon, but also "82,000 permanent decoration workers and their families".

(4) Why did the laurel trees cut down in the middle of the month and didn't take care of WU GANG's mood at all? WU GANG cut down osmanthus trees in the middle of the month, and osmanthus trees also joined the ranks of cutting down. Although it is a myth, it also has special significance.

Osmanthus fragrans, which blooms in August, is the brightest and roundest season of the moon, so it is the representative of the moon.

One of the characteristics of the moon is that it is cloudy or sunny, and it is expected to change periodically. From the crescent moon to the semi-circular chord moon and then to the full moon, it is like a wound, which is repeatedly injured and healed.

In this way, we can understand that WU GANG cut down osmanthus trees, and the wounds of osmanthus trees subsequently healed, which actually symbolizes the cycle of the moon and the replacement of the moon.

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We all know that there is a WU GANG in the Moon Palace. This WU GANG has been cutting down a osmanthus tree 500 feet high. He needs to cut down this osmanthus tree before it is over. However, he has been unable to cut down the tree. Because every time he cuts a knife and lifts it, the knife on the tree heals automatically. So he has been chopping, and he is still chopping trees there today.

(WU GANG Fagui)

So, why did WU GANG cut down this osmanthus tree?

In fact, there are almost no complete and convincing historical materials about WU GANG in China ancient mythology. What is truly historic is that there is such a short passage in Youyang Miscellaneous Chronicles in the Tang Dynasty: "As the old saying goes, there are laurels and toads in the moon. So in another book, it is said that the laurel tree is 500 feet high, and a person often marries it, and the tree makes it. Wu Minggang, a native of Xihe, studied immortals and ordered to cut down trees. "

However, after reading this short passage, we still don't know what to say. WU GANG was punished for "learning to be immortal". So, who punished him? Besides, he learns to live forever. Why should he be punished? We don't even know.

Some people may think that this is because WU GANG is only a small role among the immortals, and it is not worth saying with great fanfare.

But this is not the case. Why? Because WU GANG occupied the Moon Palace. Throughout the Moon Palace, people are Chang 'e and WU GANG. Animals are jade rabbits and toads. One is also a osmanthus tree. You know, the Moon Palace is not an ordinary heavenly palace in ancient times, and no star can compare with it. It is an extremely turbid thing and occupies an important position in the Heavenly Palace.

Chang 'e, another fairy in the Moon Palace, is also a very important person, whose popularity and fairy experience are completely different from that of WU GANG. There are records of Chang 'e in many mythological historical materials, and the activity is very high. Since Chang 'e is so popular, why is WU GANG, who is also a fairy in the Moon Palace, so unpopular?

Some people may say that this is because WU GANG is a prisoner.

(the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon)

In fact, Chang 'e is also a prisoner.

Chang 'e was originally Hou Yi's wife. Once, Hou Yi met the Queen Mother of the West in the West. The Queen Mother of the West gave him a bag of elixir to share with his wife Chang 'e, so that he and his wife could not die after eating it. But when Houyi took it back, Chang 'e was afraid that Houyi would not give it to her, so she stole the medicine and took it all by herself.

After Chang 'e ate it, her body became very light, and she floated to the sky until she rose to the moon palace, and finally stopped.

The Moon Palace is a very cloudy place. When Chang 'e was in the moon palace, she began to suffer endless loneliness and cold, endlessly, until forever.

Chang 'e suffered loneliness and cold in the Moon Palace, which is actually a punishment for Chang 'e. Chang 'e's situation is exactly the same as that of an ancient concubine who was punished by the emperor and sent to the harem. The concubine suffers loneliness and cold in the cold palace, and Chang 'e suffers loneliness and cold in the sky.

In fact, it's not just the concubines in the palace who are suffering from loneliness and cold. Many folk women are also suffering from this loneliness and cold. Unmarried women in ancient times demanded that "the door should not go out, and the second door should not enter." After marriage, the husband will go out to be an official, go to the border to fight and go out to do business. In addition to heavy work, women have to bear loneliness and loneliness. Also, when their husbands die, they have to keep their virginity for their husbands and bear loneliness.

(Ancient women)

It can be seen that Chang 'e is a concentrated display of all women in the world and a concentrated display of women's imprisonment in a patriarchal society.

When we understand Chang 'e, we can understand WU GANG more clearly.

What's WU GANG doing? WU GANG is cutting down osmanthus trees. What is a osmanthus tree? It is actually an image of the Moon Palace. WU GANG cut down osmanthus trees and destroyed the Moon Palace. If WU GANG can destroy the Moon Palace, it may no longer be an extremely cloudy place, and Chang 'e will no longer be punished. Chang 'e is a symbol of folk women. Chang 'e is no longer punished, which means that folk women are no longer punished.

It can be seen that the image of WU GANG is actually a "phase" of Chang 'e, and the so-called "phase is born from the heart". WU GANG is an imaginary figure of Chang 'e, and she hopes to have such a person who can break the shackles imposed on her and set her free.

However, it is obvious that this is futile. Because WU GANG's knife rose at one stroke, the blade on the osmanthus tree healed. The shackles of Chang 'e will not be broken, which will be the greatest sorrow for Chang 'e and folk women.

(Reference:

Records of Youyang Miscellaneous Fields, Shan Hai Jing, etc. )

WU GANG, the manager of the Chang 'e family in Houyi, specializes in making arrows.

The myth of cutting laurel trees is actually that WU GANG made spices for Chang 'e and stored them in a rabbit-shaped box. Chang 'e holds it every day, giving off fragrance to cover up her body odor. Chang 'e is a smelly person.

So WU GANG was a qualified scientist at that time.

When Chang 'e of Hou Yi went to the Western Ocean, WU GANG was also a fellow traveler. In West Asia, after Chang 'e quarreled and separated, WU GANG also separated. Houyi continued to move westward and evolved into Aryans; Chang 'e and his party later became Jews; WU GANG went to India, where he was mythologized as Brahma for his superb scientific achievements.

One of the most outstanding achievements handed down from generation to generation by WU GANG is his theory of five elements. Golden water, wood, fire and earth, five elements. In India, one element was cut down by local descendants and divided into four elements: wind, fire, water and earth, which are the four elements in the sky. Being beheaded, one of the five heads recorded as Brahma in Indian mythology was cut off by Shiva.

WU GANG didn't hype the theory of five elements in China, but one of his colleagues knew that his colleague's surname was Fan, and he fell in love with a beautiful woman in Zhiyang, Lanzhou, and became a nationality. There was a descendant named Fan Hong, who became Hong Fan in the following week and was an early propagandist of the Five Elements Theory.

WU GANG may not be his real name, because it is a homonym of the five permanent members. In the early days, the five elements were called five categories.