Wu Gang is an immortal who lives on the moon in ancient Chinese mythology. He was punished by the Emperor of Heaven to cut down the laurel tree in the Moon Palace. Looking up at the bright moon, we can see some shadows in the moon. Legend has it that it was Wu Gang who was conquering Guangxi. The general idea of ??the story is this: The laurel tree in the moon is five hundred feet high. This sacred laurel tree is not only tall, but it can also heal ax wounds by itself.
One of the legends is that there is a laurel tree five hundred feet high in the moon. During the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Wu Gang who made mistakes while learning immortality. Therefore, the Emperor Longyan was furious and detained him in the Moon Palace. He ordered him to cut down the laurel tree in the moon palace, and said: "If you cut down the laurel tree, You can get magic. "But every time Wu Gang struck an axe, the wound on the tree healed immediately when the ax came up." Day after day, Wu Gangs wish to conquer Guangxi remained unfulfilled. Therefore, Wu Gang cut down the osmanthus tree in the Moon Palace all year round, but could never cut down the tree. Therefore, later generations can see the image of Wu Gang endlessly cutting down laurel trees in the middle of the month. See "Tang·Duan Chengshi·Youyang Zazu·Volume 1·Tian'e".
Legend 2: Wu Gang, also called Wu Quan, was from Xihe. Boling, the grandson of Emperor Yan, took advantage of Wu Gangs three years away from home to study immortality. He had an affair with Wu Gangs wife and gave birth to three sons. Wu Gang killed Boling in a rage. This angered the sun god Yan Emperor and sent Wu Gang to the moon. Order him to cut down the tree of immortality - laurel. The laurel tree is five hundred feet high and can be cut back together. Emperor Yan used this endless labor as a punishment to Wu Gang. Wu Gangs wife Yuanfu felt guilty, so she asked her three sons, one named Gu, one named Yan, and one named Shun, to fly to the moon to accompany their nominal father through the long and endless cold years. Wu Gangs three sons, the one named Gu turned into a toad, the one named Yan turned into a jade rabbit, and the one named Shuxi turned into "unknown" Tiangui. From then on, Shunhe began to make arrow targets, drums and Yan began to make bells and chimes, and formulated the rules for composing music. Therefore, the lonely Guanghan Palace is always filled with fairy music. In later generations, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty recorded these entertainment songs when he roamed the Moon Palace, returned to the human world, and composed "Neon Clothes Songs". Legend has it that when Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty was roaming the Moon Palace, Wu Gang met him! It was just that his face was tired at that time, and his ax was covered with black rust, and his shabby sleeves were in tatters because no one had mended them.
Legend 3: Wu Gang of Nantianmen was very close to Chang'e in the Moon, because he often met Chang'e and neglected his duties. When the Jade Emperor found out, he was furious and ordered Wu Gang to go to the moon and cut down a big tree called the moon tree. If Wu Gang didn't cut down all the moon trees, he would not be able to return to the Nantianmen and meet Chang'e. Wu Gang chopped and chopped, from winter to summer, for half a year. Seeing that the tree was about to be chopped down, the Jade Emperor sent a crow to the moon tree, and hung Wu Gang on the tree with a "swish" sound. He took off his coat.Wu Gang immediately put down his ax and chased the crow. After the clothes were recovered, Wu Gang returned to the tree and took a look, only to see that all the branches and leaves that had been cut had grown back on the tree. From then on, whenever Wu Gang was about to cut down the tree, the crow would stand on the tree and scream. Wu Gang only had to stop the ax and look at it, and the tree would grow branches and leaves again. In this way, year after year, Wu Gang could not cut down the moon tree. And only on August 16th every year, a leaf falls from the moon to the ground. Whoever picks up the leaves of this moon tree will get endless amounts of gold, silver and jewels.
Legend 4: Wu Gang cut down osmanthus to make the best wine in the world - Osmanthus wine. Wu Gang kept cutting down trees every day. Thousands of years have passed, but the magical osmanthus tree is still as old and full of vitality. Every day As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the fragrance overflows. Wu Gang knew that there was no osmanthus tree in the world, so he spread the seeds of the osmanthus tree to the world. In ancient times, there lived a widow selling mountain grapes at the foot of Liangliang Mountain in Hangzhou. She was generous and kind-hearted, and the wine she brewed was mellow and sweet. People respected her and called her the Fairy Wine Lady. One winter, it was freezing and snowy. In the early morning, Lady Xianjiu had just opened the door. Suddenly she saw a skinny, half-clothed middle-aged man lying outside the door. He looked like a beggar. Lady Xianjiu touched the mans nose and mouth, and when he still had some breath, she became very compassionate. Regardless of what others said about her, she carried him back home, first filled him with hot soup, and then fed him half a glass of wine. The man slowly regained consciousness and said excitedly: Thank you, madam, for saving my life. I am a paralyzed person. If I go out, I will either freeze to death or starve to death. Please be kind and take me in for a few more days. Lady Xianjiu is in trouble. Because as the saying goes, a widow has a lot of things in front of her. If a man like this lives at home, others will gossip about him. But thinking about it again, I couldn't watch him freeze to death or starve to death! Finally, he nodded and agreed to let him stay temporarily. As expected, gossip about the Lady of Fairy Wine spread quickly, and everyone became alienated from her, with fewer and fewer people coming to the hotel to buy wine day by day. But Lady Xianjiu endured the pain and tried her best to take care of the man. Later, when no one came to buy wine, she really couldn't maintain it, so the man left without saying goodbye, without knowing where he was going. Lady Xianjiu was worried and searched everywhere. She met an old man with white hair on the hillside, walking hard with a load of dry firewood. Lady Xianjiu was about to help when the old man suddenly fell down and the dry wood was scattered all over the ground. The old man closed his eyes, his lips trembled, and shouted weakly: Water, water... Where does the water come from on the barren hillside? The fairy wine lady bit her middle finger, and blood immediately flowed out. She put her finger to the old mans mouth. , the old man suddenly disappeared. With a breeze, a yellow cloth bag flew from the sky. The bag was filled with many small yellow paper bags, and there was also a yellow note that read: The Moon Palace gives osmanthus seeds to reward good people. The trees are full of green laurels, and the trees are full of flowers. Pick flowers to make osmanthus wine and send it to mom and dad first. Wu Gang helps those who do good, and brings disasters to those who are treacherous and slippery. Only then did Madam Xianjiu understand that it turned out that the paralyzed man and the old man carrying firewood were both transformed by Wu Gang. As soon as the news spread, people from far and near came to ask for Guizi. Kind people planted osmanthus seeds, and soon osmanthus trees grew and osmanthus flowers bloomed, filling the courtyard with sweet fragrance and infinite scenery.. Those who have evil intentions, the osmanthus they plant will never take root or sprout, which makes them feel embarrassed and then they can change their minds and become good. Everyone is very grateful to Lady Xianjiu. It was her good deeds that moved the great immortal Wu Gang who managed the osmanthus tree in the Moon Palace, so she sprinkled osmanthus seeds into the world. From then on, there were osmanthus flowers and osmanthus wine in the world. This is what happened when Wu Gang was the first to make the best wine in the world - osmanthus wine during the Five Emperors era of ancient China.
