However, as the immortal had expected, Wu Gang let him down over and over again.
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The immortal hesitated a little but finally agreed.Īnd then they started with a series of hard training. He asked the immortal to receive him as an apprentice. One day, he came up with the idea, “why not be immortal?” Wu Gang thus travelled for one hundred days and found an old-man-like immortal under a tree. He was always dreaming of doing something easy but great. He was always lacking patience, responsibility and persistence and usually gave up halfway. Legend has it that, Wu Gang was an extremely lazy guy. Unlike the rabbit, Wu Gang was sent to the moon to receive punishment. Legend of Moon Festival – 吳剛伐桂 Wúgāng fá guì (Wu Gang chops the laurel) The Laurel Chopping Man’s StoryĪpart from Jade Rabbit, the other character that appeared in the story of Chang E was Wu Gang, the cutting Laurel man. The Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 (duān wǔ jié), also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of May of the lunar calendar. However, unfortunately, she can no longer go back and reunite with him.ĭragon Boat Festival in Taiwan || The Complete Guide She often gazes afar towards the Earth and thinks back at all the beautiful times when she was there with her husband. Here, there was nobody except an empty palace called Guang Han Gong, a rabbit (named Jade Rabbit) pounding medicine in a mortar, and a man (called Wu Gang) chopping a laurel in the yard.Ĭhang E thus lives alone and endures loneliness in Guang Han Gong from then on. Intending to fly to heaven, she instead arrived on the moon. Nonetheless, since she and Hou Yi were punished, she dared not to return to where those gods lived. She secretly took two doses at once and then flew to the sky. She knew that one dose of the elixir was not enough to help her go back.
Nevertheless, Chang E wanted to not only live an immortal life but also return to heaven as a goddess once again.
She gave Hou Yi a life elixir for two and told him to drink it with Chang E then they would both live forever. Therefore, one day Hou Yi went to ask the Queen Mother of the West for help. They were worried that they would die eventually as every mortal did. As time passed by, they started to miss life in the past.
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