Mid-Autumn Festival Composition: Rabbits Go to the Moon Palace

In people's minds, rabbits are very kind and kind animals. In ancient legends, besides Chang 'e and WU GANG, there were rabbits who first boarded the Moon Palace. This is the beautiful imagination of the ancients.

Chang 'e boarded the moon palace. According to the records in ancient books such as Huai Nan Zi, it is because she ate the elixir of life that her husband asked Xi Wuniang for, flew into the Moon Palace and became a toad. WU GANG boarded the moon palace. According to Youyang Miscellanies, WU GANG, a man from the Western Regions, was sent to replace the laurel tree in the middle of the month because of his error in cultivating immortals. This osmanthus tree grows with cutting, and it will never stop cutting.

As for the rabbit's visit to the Moon Palace, it was first seen in Qu Yuan's Tian Wen. "What do you think of Li Jue?" . It means that Gu and Tu are in the belly of the moon. What good is it for the moon? How did the rabbit get to the moon palace? Gu is a toad and Tu is a white rabbit. Fu Xuan in the Jin Dynasty also said: "What's in the middle of the month, the white rabbit is working on medicine." According to Mr Wen Yiduo's textual research, this "white rabbit mashing medicine" was changed from "toad mashing medicine".

In this month, Gu and Tu changed from one thing to two. There is a folk legend about how they landed on the moon: Wu Gang studied immortals for three years, and Sun Boling, the grandson of Emperor Yan, had an affair with his wife A Nv and gave birth to three children. After WU GANG's death, his wife felt guilty and let the youngest two children fly to the moon to accompany their nominal father. "Shan Hai Jing-Hai Nei Jing" records: "Sun Boling, son of Emperor Yan. Wu Quan's wife, A Nv's wife. A woman who was pregnant for three years gave birth to a drum, delayed and died. " In mid-June, Gu and Rabbit were delayed and died.