What are the legends about the moon? It's urgent, but it's just a name, not a story.

In Archaean, there were two suns in the sky, which shone on the earth in turn, resulting in no distinction between day and night. Hot weather brings great inconvenience to human life. A couple worked hard in the farmland, putting the sleeping baby firmly beside the stone pile in the shade of the tree and covering it with palm leaves. Unexpectedly, he was still burned alive by the cruel sun and turned into a lizard hiding in the crack of the stone pile. The father was very angry when he knew it, and vowed to shoot down the sun to avenge his children.

Before embarking on the journey, my father planted an orange tree in front of his house and set out for the place where the sun rose, ready to seal it before the sun took off. My father, who was an accurate marksman, really hit one eye of the sun, and the light of the sun suddenly disappeared into the moon. The moon closed its eyes and reached out to grab people at random. Father escaped through his fingers because his palm was too big. Because one sun was shot on the moon and the other sun dared not take off to shine on the earth, the earth was dark and everyone could not go out to work, let alone find food. Life was very difficult. If you want to go out, you must first throw a stone, and judge whether the road ahead is an abyss by the sound of the stone falling to the ground. A mountain Qiang who was out foraging was hit in the head by a stone thrown by someone, bleeding profusely. The mountain Qiang was in pain and gave an angry roar. At this moment, something strange happened. The hidden sun was scared away by the roar of Shanqiang, which made the sky shine on the earth again, and people resumed their normal lives, but Shanqiang left a beautiful scar on his forehead.

Later, the moon taught the father who shot at the sun all kinds of rituals and taboos, such as: don't be greedy for sweets when hunting and sowing sacrifices, otherwise you will starve or miss your prey; The child's sacrifice should be held at the full moon, otherwise the child will get sick and die. After my father returned to the tribe, he began to teach his people how to deal with sacrifices. When everyone has learned all the sacrificial ceremonies, the orange tree has grown into a big tree. Therefore, several communities of Bunun nationality will use orange leaves as sacrificial vessels when performing sacrificial ceremonies.

Legend of Gypsies-Children of the Moon

Once upon a time, there was a gypsy woman who had been married to her husband for many years and had no children. One night, she prayed to the moon to give her a child. Soon after, she got pregnant as she wished. However, when the child was born, they found that his eyes were gray and his skin was silver, not black skin and dark brown eyes. The gypsy was very angry and thought that his wife had betrayed him and wanted to kill the child.

The gypsy woman couldn't bear it, took the child to the mountain and abandoned him. The moon has taken care of the child since then. When the moon is full, it is the child who behaves well, and when the moon becomes a new moon, it is the child who cries. The moon made him a cradle to make him stop crying. Compare an albino child to a child of the moon.

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Artemis, the goddess of the moon in ancient Greek mythology. She is the sister of Apollo, the sun god. She is beautiful and a very good archer. She is in charge of hunting, often accompanied by her beloved bow and hound. She drives a silver carriage through the night sky every day, representing the cold, loneliness and dead road at night. She is also the patron saint of unmarried girls-she herself is unmarried for life, and there is a sad story in it.

Poseidon, the sea king, had a son named Orion. He likes archery very much. He is a good hunter and likes to run wildly on the sea. The moon goddess likes Oreos very much. They know each other and love each other. They often hunt in the jungle together and run wildly at sea. Apollo, the goddess' brother, hated Oreon and disliked the relationship between his sister and Oreon, so he decided to get rid of Oreon. One day, when Oreon was flying on the sea, Apollo covered Oreon with golden light to hide him, so that no one could see Oreon's true face. Then he encouraged his sister, Moon Goddess, who likes archery, to take gold objects in the distance as targets. Of course, the moon goddess didn't know it was her brother's plot, so she shot an arrow and hit Oregon in the head. Later, when she learned that she had shot her sweetheart Olian, she fell into despair and cried day and night. In order to cherish her love for Oregon forever, she asked Zeus to lift Oregon to the sky, hoping that she could see it at any time when she was running in the sky in a silver carriage. Zeus accepted her request and turned Orion into a constellation in the sky. The goddess swore that she would never get married, and that she would stay with Oregon in the night sky forever.

There is a "story of the moon" among Hezhe people in Heilongjiang Province, northeast of China.

In ancient times, a woman went to the river to fetch water. She looked up at the moon in the sky and thought it was particularly lovely. She couldn't help thinking of her own life experience and all kinds of abuse and despair in her husband's family. She suddenly had an idea, why not ask the Moon Fairy to do me a favor and let herself leave this miserable world! When she began to pray for the moon god, to her great surprise, a blanket that didn't look like a blanket and a boat that didn't look like a boat floated from the distant river and soon came to her and stopped. She tried to stand on tiptoe. Strangely, her whole body tilted up unconsciously. It immediately lifted the woman into the air like magic, and she was scared and grabbed the tree around her. I don't know where she came from, but she uprooted the tree. At this time, the faster the flying carpet flies, the higher she flies. In this way, the woman quickly flew to the moon.

This legend is to tell everyone that those dark shadows on the moon are buckets, poles and trees that the woman and she brought to the moon. Of course, this is just a folk story. There are no such things on the moon, and there is no so-called moon god.

5 A myth of Gaoshan people in China is like this:

It's so dark between heaven and earth that people can only light a lamp. I don't know how many years passed, and I don't know what day it was. Suddenly, a very strong wind blew two people with torches into the sky, and two suns appeared in the sky. The two suns took turns shining on the earth, making people unable to sleep and the crops burnt. I don't know how long it took, but an archer with good archery hit one of the suns with a strong arrow. Since then, its light has weakened and turned into the moon.

Another myth of Gaoshan people says that the sun and the moon were changed by a pair of young men and women: in order to find light for the earth and people, they traveled all over the world and finally flew into the sky. The young man turned into a radiant sun, and the young woman turned into a gentle and lovely moon.

When you look up at the moon, you will immediately find some places on the bright moon that are not so bright. They are slightly darker than the surrounding area, and the degree of darkness is different. The following Yao myth is to explain the alternation of light and shade on the moon.

The moon in the sky turned out to be square and round, so bright that people could not open their eyes and so hot that they could not breathe. A pair of young men and women are determined to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages and do good things for the people. The strong young man shot a sharp arrow at the moon, trying to make it round bit by bit. However, the moon is still too bright, and the white moon is not beautiful! The young woman is an expert in brocade. She has knitted a beautiful silk brocade for the moon with all her heart, and asked the boys to hang an arrow and shoot it at the moon to cover it. In this way, the moonlight is not so dazzling, and there are patterns, houses, cattle and sheep, osmanthus trees and so on. The moon pattern originally woven on silk brocade has become what we see. Later, young men and women also came to the moon and lived a happy life.

The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's legendary story is a household name in China. It is said that Chang 'e took the elixir given by the Western Queen Mother, flew lightly to the moon, lived in the Guanghan Palace there, and still lived a lonely life. Accompanying Chang 'e is only the Jade Rabbit who plays with drugs for Chang 'e all the year round. Later, I don't know when it started. There is also a man named WU GANG on the moon. All I know is that he broke the precepts while cultivating immortals and was sent here to cut down osmanthus trees. However, osmanthus trees are immortal trees. How did Wu Can and his gang cut it down? As soon as he lifted the axe, the crack in the tree closed again at once. In this way, he can only do the impossible on the moon forever.

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Zhu Yuanzhang uprising

The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes, which are round, symbolizing reunion and reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion. Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to have started in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang led the Han people to resist the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, agreed on the August 15th uprising, and put a note in the moon cake to convey the news. The custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although Manchu people later entered China, people still celebrated this festival, which symbolized the overthrow of alien rule.

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The story of the king who wants to touch the moon

Once upon a time, in the distant Caribbean, there was a kingdom. Like Taiwan Province Province, this kingdom is an island country, surrounded by green forests and blue sea water, with a warm climate all year round. The leader of this kingdom is a proud king. He is always taken care of in trivial matters of life, and his family is always respectful to him and dare not disobey his demands. In fact, the king lacks everything. However, one night, when he was standing on the windowsill of the castle enjoying the cool evening breeze and looking up at the night sky, he was deeply attracted by the bright moonlight and suddenly had a desire to touch the moon.

Once the idea formed in his mind, he immediately called the minister and posted the news that he wanted to touch the moon, asking the minister to realize his wish. The minister knew that the king had a bad temper and was too worried to sleep. Finally, the next morning, he put forward a plan: mobilize the whole country and build a tower, on which the king could climb and touch the moon. The king accepted this suggestion and immediately asked all parts of the country to contribute wooden boxes, large and small, and put them at home, one after another, piling up higher and higher, just like piles of wood. However, when these wooden boxes were used up, there was still a long way to go from the moon, so the king ordered the people of the whole country to cut down all the wood in the country and use it to build wooden boxes. Those who refuse to obey will be put in prison because the king said, "In my country, there is no' no'." When all the trees in the kingdom were cut down, the tower almost reached the sky, so the king happily began to climb the tower layer by layer. However, when the king reached the top of the tower and reached out to touch the moon, he found that it was still a little short. So he shouted to people far from the ground, "Give me another wooden box."

People answered him helplessly: "There are no more wooden cases." . The king, who just wanted to touch the moon, ordered, "Pass the wooden box at the bottom." . As soon as people heard it, they knew something was wrong and responded, "But …". The king said angrily, "There is no such word in my kingdom." People knew they couldn't disobey the king's orders, so they pulled out the wooden box at the bottom. Just then, all the wooden boxes shook and scattered all over the floor. The king who wanted to touch the moon fell from a height and died.

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The story of the people in the north and south tells that once the earth was flooded, even the sun and moon in the sky sank into the water, and the five surviving brothers and sisters floated on the sea and finally found a piece of land; Because the earth is dark, a man and a woman are sent to the sky as a new sun and a new moon in order to find other humans. In the creation myth of the northern and southern nationalities, the moon and the sun brought children to the world. The first one is a man, followed by monkeys, horses, deer, fish and birds. Later, the ancestors of northern and southern people spread that planting sweet potatoes should be based on the changes of the moon. You can't farm when the moon is full, but you can only farm when the moon is short. If the moon is like a sickle, don't cultivate it.

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According to the legend of the Ami nationality, the two brothers and sisters are not happy to dance because they have finished their mother's explanation to comfort their father's spirit in heaven; Three people jumped and gradually entered the ground. They said with one voice, "We have done everything we should. Tonight, the moon is my brother, tomorrow morning, the sun in the eastern sky is my brother, and the shining stars in the dark sky are my sisters. We will always benefit mankind. Bye, mom. These plots clearly show that these peoples believe that the sun, moon and stars are man-made. The connection between the moon and indigenous people 18-year-old farming can also be found in some stories, such as the story of Beinan nationality mentioned above; Because millet (millet), which was originally the staple food of aborigines, was harvested in autumn, the moonlight in autumn night was particularly bright. Harvest ceremonies or songs and dances of all ethnic groups are mostly held in the bright moonlight. The sharing of the new valley and the new wine made the members of the tribe reunite their thoughts and get emotional relief, looking forward to the same food and clothing in the coming year. Therefore, the perfection of the autumn moon also symbolizes the ardent hope of the people.