-婷之文
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Shut my eyes,to ignore what's in sight. Shut my ears,to ignore what's sounding around me. Shut my mind,to ignore whats my heart is saying. ♡
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就像向日葵需要太阳一样，我需要你-婷之文
ii wanna dry my heart under the clear sunny sky.
Good morning!
Do you dudes & babes know how this festival comes by?
Here it is:
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.
Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival is strongly associated with the legend of Houyi and Chang'e, the Moon Goddess of Immortality. Tradition places these two figures from Chinese mythology around 2170 BCE, during the reign of the legendary Emperor Yao, shortly after that of Huangdi. Unlike many lunar deities in other cultures who personify the moon, Chang'e simply lives on the moon but is not the moon per se.
One version of the legend states that Houyi was an immortal and Chang'e was a beautiful young girl, working in the palace of the Jade Emperor (the Emperor of Heaven, 玉帝)as an attendant to the Queen Mother of the West (the Jade Emperor's wife). Houyi aroused the jealousy of the other immortals, who then slandered him before the Jade Emperor. Houyi and his wife, Chang'e, were subsequently banished from heaven. They were forced to live on Earth. Houyi had to hunt to survive and became a skilled and famous archer.
At that time, there were ten suns, in the form of three-legged birds, residing in a mulberry tree in the eastern sea. Each day one of the sun birds would have to travel around the world on a carriage, driven by Xihe, the 'mother' of the suns. One day, all ten of the suns circled together, causing the Earth to burn. Emperor Yao, the Emperor of China, commanded Houyi to use his archery skill to shoot down all but one of the suns. Upon completion of his task, the Emperor rewarded Houyi with a pill that granted eternal life. Emperor Yao advised Houyi not to swallow the pill immediately but instead to prepare himself by praying and fasting for a year before taking it.Houyi took the pill home and hid it under a rafter. One day, Houyi was summoned away again by Emperor Yao. During her husband's absence, Chang'e, noticed a white beam of light beckoning from the rafters, and discovered the pill. Chang'e swallowed it and immediately found that she could fly. Houyi returned home, realizing what had happened he began to reprimand his wife. Chang'e escaped by flying out the window into the sky.
Houyi pursued her halfway across the heavens but was forced to return to Earth because of strong winds. Chang'e reached the moon, where she coughed up part of the pill. Chang'e commanded the hare that lived on the moon to make another pill. Chang'e would then be able to return to Earth and her husband.
The legend states that the hare is still pounding herbs, trying to make the pill. Houyi built himself a palace in the sun, representing "Yang" (the male principle), in contrast to Chang'e's home on the moon which represents "Yin" (the female principle). Once a year, on the fifteenth day of the full moon, Houyi visits his wife. That is the reason why the moon is very full and beautiful on that night.
This description appears in written form in two Western Han dynasty collections; Shan Hai Jing, the Classic of the Mountains and Seas and Huainanzi, a philosophical classic.
Another version of the legend, similar to the one above, differs in saying that Chang'e swallowed the pill of immortality because Peng, one of Houyi's many apprentice archers, tried to force her to give the pill to him. Knowing that she could not fight off Peng, Chang'e had no choice but to swallow the pill herself.
Other versions say that Houyi and Chang'e were still immortals living in heaven at the time that Houyi killed nine of the suns. The sun birds were the sons of the Jade Emperor, who punished Houyi and Chang'e by forcing them to live on Earth as mortals. Seeing that Chang'e felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality, Houyi decided to find the pill that would restore it. At the end of his quest, he met the Queen Mother of the West, who agreed to give him the pill, but warned him that each person would only need half a pill to regain immortality. Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Chang'e not to open the case, and then left home for a while. Like Pandora in Greek mythology, Chang'e became curious. She opened up the case and found the pill, just as Houyi was returning home. Nervous that Houyi would catch her, discovering the contents of the case, she accidentally swallowed the entire pill, and started to float into the sky because of the overdose.
Some versions of the legend do not refer to Houyi or Chang'e as having previously been immortals and initially present them as mortals instead.
There are also versions of the story in which Houyi is rewarded for killing nine of the suns and saving the people by being made king. However, King Houyi became a despot. He gained the pill of immortality, either by stealing it from the Queen Mother of the West or by learning that he could make pills by grinding up the body of an adolescent boy every night for a hundred nights. Chang'e stole the pill and swallowed it herself, either to stop more boys being killed or to prevent her husband's tyrannical rule from lasting forever.
The Jade Rabbit
According to tradition, the Jade Rabbit pounds medicine, together with the lady, Chang'e, for the gods. Others say that the Jade Rabbit is a shape, assumed by Chang'e herself. The dark areas to the top of the full moon may be construed as the figure of a rabbit. The animal's ears point t
o the upper right, while at the left are two large circular areas, representing its head and body.
In this legend, three fairy sages transformed themselves into pitiful old men, and begged for food from a fox, a monkey, and a hare. The fox and the monkey both had food to give to the old men, but the hare, empty-handed, jumped into a blazing fire to offer his own flesh instead. The sages were so touched by the hare's sacrifice and act of kindness that they let him live in the Moon Palace, where he became the "Jade Rabbit"Such wordy causes headache right? No worries,go eat mooncake!
Speaking of mooncake, i had a serious craving for it yesterday midnight! Best thing is,there's no extra mooncake for me to munch on! *POUTS* And now,i've no more cravings for it =.= "Haiz,我们都是善变的女人啊~"
Isn't this mooncake freaking ke aiiii~
ii want ii want~
And here's a wall post from me on GFF's Fb wall. (Kinda random)
but tts because she was telling me she wanna burn the playgrounds down! hahaha. Just kiddin. We're just crapping! =D
Next,its a emo song by a Korean Band called Beast.Its really emo!
Saddening right~ ii knew it >< re ="D" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Money money,You finally received my LOVE signal~" Lols. Gonna go shopping with GFF tmr at town! whhooo hoo~
Anyway,was reading newspaper just now. A sad news i read. At Penang Bridge,there's a serious accident occured! A 7-seater car with 5 ppl in it met in an accident with a lorry. And it resulted in 2 deaths,3 alives(2 of them were seriously injured but out of danger). And the saddest thing is,the two deaths is a young couple! One 17yrs old and one 19 years old whom just married for 8 months! Poor couple. May god bless them holding on to each another in the nether world. Another sad thing,they got a child-an one month old baby girl...And because of an accident like this,she is now an orphan. Haiz. Life are just that cruel & unpredictable...
This post is way too long! So im gonna stop here. Cont' tmr ya~ TAAs ♥
我不知道，爱上你是否是个错。
我不知道，你到底会不会有一点点的想我。
我不知道，我会继续等、还是不等了。
因为，这些都是命中注定的。
因为，这不是我可以选择的。
因为，心总还会有一些思念。
-婷之文
中秋节快乐!!!
Breakfast in the afternoon? Am i right on time? uhmmm, well i guessed i slept too much!!! But,thats my way of life~:))
Taas♥
Gonna munch on my nuts cookies later on~ weets~
♥ 我想要的，是那微微の关心。我需要的，是那强强の勇气。♥ -婷之文
DONT CHU MISS ME ?!!! ;)
ii miss my blog SO much. Was working these two days...@ Orchard. Ytd was more fun cause im transferred to Paragon. Met cute girls there. Had a great time with them~ Hope to work with them soon? Though its kinda hard! We saw an old loving couple who bought couple phones! Gosh,they're merely so cute,lovely and sweet! How many couples can grow old together such loving-ly? Rare,i must say. Often what we seen,are couples quarreling. We girls were kind of envy at the moments.
If the torchlight for my life runs out of battery,who's gonna light a match and light up a candle to show me my way? -婷之文
♥ im getting better,im getting worse.♥
愛∞無限-片頭曲 : 我們都怕痛 by Wilber Pan
