There's lots of legend about Moon Festival. Chang’e was Yi’s wife. One day, when Yi was out hunting, a wicked servant attempted to steal the magic elixir, Chang’e drank the magic potion, and escaped from the evil servant by going to the moon. When Yi returned, he was heartbroken. He set out Chang’e’s favorite fruits and cakes as an offering to her. Chang’e continues to live forever as the “Moon Goddess”.
Let me tell you the story about "Jade Rabbit" and "Wu Kang, the man chopping the cinnamon tree". Wu Kang was the god who makes the pill which can live forever. Once he took the medicine to the human’s world, this made the master angry, and decide to punished him by sent him to the moon and chop the tree every day. Though Wu Kang chopped day and night, the magical tree restored itself with each blow, and thus he is up there chopping still. The master had to find someone to replace Wu Kang to make the pill, but human is too evil, this time he need an animal. The master designates 3 celestial to the human’s world, they transform themselves into 3 poor old men and solicit food from a fox, a monkey and a rabbit. The fox and the monkey had something to give them but the rabbit did not. Afterward the rabbit sacrificed itself by jumping into the fire and burned itself to serve the 3 old men with its meat. The 3 celestial were so touch by the rabbit that they sent the rabbit to the moon palace. The master named the rabbit “Jade Rabbit” because it’s really kind and the fur of it is as white as the jade.
People today celebrate the “Moon Festival” by barbecuing, so does my family. Every year, we'll go to the barbecue restaurant, so that we do not need to prepare our own ingredients and clean up the venue, it's more convenient and the food are more fresh. The photo below is the best dish I ate this year, cheese with the beef is always match.💗
September is called Harvest Moon because most grain crops will be ready for harvest, and I think the three consecutive months which would have the most plentiful food is from August to October, the Sturgeon moon, Harvest Moon, and Hunter’s Moon. These three months would be my favorite months, because food is the first necessity of me!😂
Dear Melody,
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time that I have heard the story of the "Jade Rabbit". So Chang'e, the Mood Goddess, the Jade Rabbit, and Wu Kang are all up there on the Moon. Anybody else?
The beef and cheese looks good! Was it? Did you have moon cakes?
Tim