{"id":6548,"date":"2019-11-20T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chang-er-flying-to-the-moon-chang-e-ben-yue\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:23:20","slug":"chang-er-flying-to-the-moon-chang-e-ben-yue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chang-er-flying-to-the-moon-chang-e-ben-yue\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang Er Flying to the Moon \u5ae6\u5a25\u5954\u6708"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<div>The legend Chang Er Flying to the Moon is a  beautiful fable of ancient China. Chang Er was the wife of the legendary  hero Hou Yi, a great archer who accomplished great achievements by  shooting down nine extra suns. The hero was rewarded with a kind of  elixir for his deed, which was then eaten by his wife by stealth. Chang  Er rose up to the sky immediately after that and lived on the moon ever  since. The moon is also called &quot;Moon Palace&quot; by the Chinese to describe  the abode of Chang Er. It is said that she regretted for what she had  done soon after she flied to the moon. Many poets in ancient China cited  the subject in their poems, in order to deliver Chang Er&#8217;s loneliness,  chillness and solitude in the moon palace.<\/div>\n<div>In China, Chang Er is a synonym for the moon, and the Chinese  nation has always had a special emotion towards the moon derived by the  associations of fair Chang Er, which has even influenced the nation in  all aspects. When getting to know what happened to Chang Er, common  people of that time put their incense burner tables under the moon and  prayed for luck and safety to the kind lady. Thereby, the custom of  worshiping the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival caught on among folks.<\/div>\n<div>Later, other legends ab0ut the moon, such as Wu Gang Chopping the  Laurel Tree and Moon Rabbit Grinding Medicine were created, draping the  moon with a mysterious veil once more. Moreover, people are also fond of  making interesting patterns of these tales on moon cakes.<\/div>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1775014605\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legend Chang Er Flying to the Moon is a beautiful fable of ancient China. Chang Er was the wife<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology"],"views":237,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}