The moon is so beautiful and cold, why did the ancients replace it with a toad?

In ancient times, toads were also used to express the meaning of beauty, and the moon was also beautiful, so toads were used instead of them.

Because they are all good intentions, and because the toad's habits are at night, they say so.

Chanjuan referred to the moon in ancient times, because of the homonym, so the toad was also used to refer to the moon, so there is also a saying of jade cicada.

Because in ancient times, the meaning of toad also represented beauty, so ancient people had toads to describe the beauty and coldness of the moon.

Because the toad is also a beautiful meaning, and the moon is also a beautiful meaning, they all give people a good impression.

It's really hard to say, and to be honest, I don't know why the toad is so ugly that it uses it instead of the moon.

Toad into the essence --"Toad"Another name for the word series.

Legend has it that there was a toad on the moon that became a sperm, and this was born"Toad"The series of aliases of the word - Toad, Jade Toad, Ming Toad, Qing Toad, Liang Toad, Han Toad, Ice Toad, Golden Toad, Silver Toad, Spirit Toad, Cai Toad, Su Toad, Solitary Toad, New Toad, Toad Cave, Toad Palace, Toad Que, Toad Light, Toad Cai ......Such as:

The jade toad is off the sea, and the white dew is wet in the flower village. (Don Li Bai's "First Moon") The old rabbit is cold and the toad is crying in the sky, and the half-open wall of the cloud building is obliquely white. (Li He's "Dream Sky") The moon waves are wet every day, and the cool toad falls into the stars.

Li Shangyin's "Yantai Poems and Autumn") The lonely toad has not been on it for a long time, and he can't write it for five years. (Song Sima Guang's "Stopping the Moon Pavilion") A few times the wild goose came and went, and the intestine was broken. (Liu Shang's "Hu Ji Eighteen Beats") In addition to the above four series of aliases, there is also a reason"Rabbits""Gui""Toad"and so on juxtaposed to form a new alias - rabbit toad, toad rabbit, toad gui, gui toad, gui rabbit ......Such as:

When he went out to chat, Toad Gui leaned towards people. (Don Luo Yin's "Traveling Dream") The moon is full of three or five bright moons, and four or five toads and rabbits are missing. ("Nineteen Ancient Poems").

Reason: "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Astronomical Chronicles" "The Change of the Stars at the Time" Liang Liu Zhao of the Southern Dynasty Note: "Yi invited the medicine of no death to the Queen Mother of the West, and the concubine stole it to run to the moon......."She was in the moon for the toad. Later, it was used as a synonym for the moon.

The name and name of the moon].

Jade Rabbit, Luminous, Su'e, Ice Wheel, Jade Wheel, Jade Toad, Guilu, Toad, Gu Rabbit, Chanjuan, Jade Bow, Jade Cinnamon, Jade Plate, Jade Hook, Jade Mirror, Ice Mirror, Guanghan Palace, Chang'e, Jade Sheep, etc.

Jade Rabbit (intentionally ascending the building to see the Jade Rabbit, who opened the curtain to cover the silver que - Xin Qiji);

Luminous (Luminous Hode, Death and Fertility?) - Qu Yuan);

Su'e (Su'e is another name for the moon - "Kindergarten Qionglin");

Ice Wheel (Jade Hook Determines Who Hangs, Ice Wheel Has No Way - Land Tour);

Jade Wheel (Jade Wheel Rolling Dew Wet Cluster Light, Luan Pei Meets Gui Xiangmo - Li He);

Jade Toad (outside the smoke of the cool night, the autumn of the three or five jade toads - Fang Gan);

Gui Lu (Gui Lu flew to the light place, cold soaked for a day Qiu Bi - Su Shi);

Toad (Fujian set sail to go, Toad lost and recovered - Jia Island);

Gu Rabbit (Yang Bird has not come out of the valley, Gu Rabbit is half hidden - Li Bai);

Chanjuan (I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together Chanjuan - Su Shi);

jade plate (the hour does not know the moon, called the white jade plate - Li Bai);

It was conjectured by the ancients based on the shadow in the moon, and you can check out this post for details:

I won't come over for the sake of intellectual property issues, so see for yourself.

In addition to the story of Chang'e running to the moon, there are two legends that are also related to the moon: as early as the Warring States Period, the ancients said that there were toads in the moon. Qu Yuan said in "Tianwen":

What is the virtue of the luminous glow, and death is childbearing? What is the only benefit, and Gu Su is in the abdomen? According to Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Tianwen Shitian", "Gu Su" is a toad, and "Lingxian" also says:

Chang'e was then on the moon for the toad".Because there are toads in the Moon Palace, people commonly call the Moon Palace "Toad Palace".

And because the word "dodder" is similar to the word "rabbit", there is another saying that there are white rabbits in the month, whether it is a toad or a white rabbit, and what they do is to pound medicine, that is, immortal medicine. For example, in the "Yuefu Poetry Collection", "Xianghe Song Lyrics, Dong Escapes", there is a sentence: "Take the magic medicine Ruomu Duan, and the white rabbit kneels down to pound the medicine shrimp pills and toad pills".

Why did the ancients associate the moon with the toad? Some modern scholars believe that there may be two reasons, one is due to observation and association, because the moon can only be seen at night, toads are also nocturnal animals, and there is a black shadow in the moon that resembles a toad, so it is easy to associate it with myths and legends. The other is a reflection of admiration, in ancient times, it is likely that the toad was a totemic symbol of the worship of some clans or tribes, and archaeological discoveries have revealed quite a lot in this regard, "all kinds of indications show that there were more clans or tribes with frogs or toads as totems in ancient times."

When they found that the moon and toads or frogs were similar in their activities, and the shadows on the moon were like toads and frogs, they thought that their totemic ancestors, toads or frogs, were not ordinary animals, but gods and toads or frogs from the moon, so they compared the moon with toads and frogs. As for the later ancients, the rabbit was associated with the moon, perhaps because the white moonlight was similar to the color of the white rabbit, or because the shadow in the moon was similar to the shape of the rabbit.

The toad is a very auspicious animal in traditional Chinese culture.

Legend has it that it can attract wealth and avoid sword soldiers.

And it means many children and longevity.

Needless to say, there are many children. Longevity means the habit of hibernation of toads, and the ancients believed that toads die once a year, then live once, and can always be resurrected after death, unlike humans who die and are finished.

The relationship between the toad and the moon may have predated Chang'e. In ancient paintings, the sun is a three-legged crow and the moon is a three-legged toad (why are they all three-legged?). I don't understand. Chang'e "flew" to the moon later.

There is beauty and ugliness in the world, a kind of yin and yang gossip thought!

It is completely the jealousy and ugliness of the ancients against Chang'e, who abandoned her husband.

In the pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "Mid-Autumn Festival Night Greeting the Cold", "Mid-Autumn Festival Offering Good Qiu", and "Autumn Equinox and Sunset Moon (Moon Worship)".

It's not a question of whether it's good or not, they all represent cold nights and make people feel immersive.

is a kind of satire on Chang'e, punishing her for stealing immortal medicine.

Although the toad is ugly, the toad is an expression of culture, especially the Mid-Autumn Festival culture.

The sun represents the day, the moon represents the cold night, and the sight of the toad makes people shiver, and they all have something in common to be cold.

Another name for the sable cicada, the toad is compared to the cicada, which has the meaning of burying the sable cicada

Because the moon is white and flawless underground, you have to take a spaceship to see the moon, and there are potholes on it.

Because there are toads in the Moon Palace, people commonly call the Moon Palace "Toad Palace".

The myth on the moon - Chang'e running to the moon, it turns out that she has also been turned into a toad.

There is a saying that after Chang'e ran to the moon, she became a toad moon essence, so she also called the moon "jade toad", and there is a sentence in Fang Gan's poem "Mid-Autumn Moon": "The cool sky and mist rise, and the three or five jade toads are autumn." ”

Legend has it that there is a toad in the Moon Palace, so it is called the moon by "Toad Palace", see Li Junmin's "Mid-Autumn Festival" poem: "The shadow of the shark room has tears, and the wind in the toad room scatters the fragrance of cinnamon." ”

Reason: Later Han Shu Tianwen Zhi "Words of the Change of the Stars" Liang Liu Zhao of the Southern Dynasty Note: "Yi invites the medicine of no death to the Queen Mother of the West, and the son of the thief of the concubine is hidden in Zheng to run to the moon ......."Carrying La Auntie to the moon is for the toad. Later, it was used as a synonym for the moon.

The name and name of the moon].

Jade Rabbit, Luminous, Su'e, Ice Wheel, Jade Wheel, Jade Toad, Guilu, Toad, Gu Rabbit, Chanjuan, Jade Bow, Jade Nian Song Gui, Jade Plate, Jade Hook, Jade Mirror, Ice Mirror, Guanghan Palace, Chang'e, Jade Sheep, etc.

Jade Rabbit (intentionally ascending the building to see the Jade Rabbit, who opened the curtain to cover the silver que - Xin Qiji);

Luminous (Luminous Hode, Death and Fertility?) - Qu Yuan);

Su'e (Su'e is another name for the moon - "Kindergarten Qionglin");

Ice Wheel (Jade Hook Determines Who Hangs, Ice Wheel Has No Way - Land Tour);

Jade Wheel (Jade Wheel Rolling Dew Wet Cluster Light, Luan Pei Meets Gui Xiangmo - Li He);

Jade Toad (outside the smoke of the cool night, the autumn of the three or five jade toads - Fang Gan);

Gui Lu (Gui Lu flew to the light place, cold soaked for a day Qiu Bi - Su Shi);

Toad (Fujian set sail to go, Toad lost and recovered - Jia Island);

Gu Rabbit (Yang Bird has not come out of the valley, Gu Rabbit is half hidden - Li Bai);

Chanjuan (I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together Chanjuan - Su Shi);

jade plate (the hour does not know the moon, called the white jade plate - Li Bai);