Zhong Qiu Jie…
Cunfucious once said on the bank of a running river,
The passings are so like this!
I always wonder how time flies, 2 days later it will be “zhong qiu jie”, as the word meaning goes, the middle of autumn, but the sun still shines the temperature still high, I still wear my skirt like in the summer time. How can i expect to welcome winter day after next half autumn day?
See, sir, time is so limited and he’s so sly.
ok, some complaining, and then let’s get down to our story
before the moon show, let’s begin with the musclure sun. Man is always sperior and woman inferior in the ancient China, so of course this story begins with a man, a great hero, and the mightg sun.
once upon a time the world has 10 suns. The temperature is thus very very high, the air is thus very very hot. People’s full of sweat and the vegetable can never grow. They are live under “shui shen huo re”(deep water and hot fire, means very cruel living condition)
There’s a man called “Hou Yi”, Hou Yi is a strong man good at shooting. He made up his mind to save his people from “shu shen huo re”. He found the best
bow and best arrows, he climbed to the top pf highest mountain. He concentrate his mind, then
shooting!
shooting!
9 sun was shut down by him, and there left only one sun, because people need sunshine and warmth. From then on, vegetable grows and people live in happiness.
People showed warm welcome and high respect to their great hero. Even the ruler of the immoral world, Huang mu (remember Niu lang and zhi nv? this is zhi nv’s mother, queen of immoral world), showed his praise to Hou yi. As reward, she gave him a pill.
“sharing it with your wife”, she said, “and death would never come, u two will live in the world forever.”
in the human world, of course, Houyi was greatly honored, and have the marriage with the most beautiful girl at that time, Chang’e.
Chang e is beautiful, and she’s proud of her beauty. But as time passes, she was more and more scared, what if i grow old? what if my beauty fade? what if our love do not last?
She heared of the pill from his husband, and a desire grasp her and urging her to eat that pill.
yes, eat it, and not only your life, but also your beauty will last forever.
So our tragedy begins. One night when hou yi is out, chang e found that pill and swallow it.
Then she feel she’s lighter and ligher—-she flies. Hou yi was back at that time, he shouted “chang e, chang e!” But chang e can not stop herself. She flies and flies, and landed on the moon.
The moon is cold and lonely. Chang e is here, her rabbit is there. Besids them, Wu gang is there, he’s the first moon resident, punished by the emperor to cut the osmanthus tree on the moon. He cut, the tree grow the same, cut, grow the same—-do the circle day and day, year and year, never end.
In the human world, chang e’s story passed by, and zhong qiu comes out as a day for relatives getting together—-Compared with beauty, life, being together with beloved ones is truly the most important.
Story’s over, and somewhat sad in the typing~~~whatever, happy mid-autumn day, sir, do remember to share it with your beloved ones.
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