Chapter 635: The Moon Rises and the Moon Sets
After Fangzheng heard it, he suddenly had the urge to give himself two big mouths. Isn't this just looking for trouble? It feels like I dug a hole for myself that I didn't have before, and then I forgot where to dig, and I might fall into it someday...
Fangzheng gave a wry smile. If something happened, then it happened. Anyway, it is irreversible. Moreover, Fang Zheng guessed that he probably wouldn't touch this hole.
Since the system doesn't care much about his thoughts on eating, Fangzheng is naturally happy.
In the evening, the sun gradually slanted to the west, changing from a dazzling fireball to a big orange orange, and at the same time, a silvery-white full moon appeared in the sky in the east.
Fangzheng stood on the edge of the cliff, watching the sunset and the rising moon at the same time, letting the night wind blow the monk's robes and fluttering, as if he would fly away with the wind at any time. Those who didn't know really thought it was a banished immortal.
"Master, it's so strange. Didn't the moon rise from the west before? Why did it rise from the east this time?" Since the enlightenment of spiritual wisdom, monkeys have become more and more fond of thinking, and more and more accustomed to observing the moon. The world is gone.
Fangzheng looked at the moon in the distance with his hands behind his back and said, "That's because you have never carefully observed the moon's trajectory. In fact, the moon's trajectory is not like the sun's unchanging rise and fall. The moon phase changes periodically. On the first day of the lunar calendar, the moon appears between the sun and the earth, and the dark side of the moon faces the earth, so the moon cannot be seen on the earth. This day is called the new moon.
One or two days after the new moon, a crescent moon appears in the western sky in the evening, with the convex side facing the direction of the setting sun. At this time, the moon rises in the west and sets in the east.
Afterwards, the position of the moon gradually moved eastward relative to the sun, and the bright part also expanded day by day. After five or six days, it became a "first quarter moon" with half light and dark, and a bright western half, which was directly south of the observer at sunset.
In another seven days, around the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the full moon will arrive, which is today. At this time, due to the moon revolving around the earth and the earth's rotation, there are changes. At sunset, the sun is in the west and the full moon is in the east, that is, it rises in the west and sets in the east.
The east rises and the west falls, the west rises and the east falls, and the infinite cycle goes back and forth. "
"Uh, so much more to say? What about after the full moon? What is the half moon after the full moon?" The monkey asked curiously like a baby.
Fangzheng smiled and said, "When you're free, check your phone more often with your junior brother. If you don't know how to check it directly. After the full moon, the western part of the moon's surface is getting thinner and thinner. After seven days, it becomes half bright and dark again, with the eastern half bright." The "last quarter moon". The last quarter moon rises in the middle of the night. After the last quarter moon, the moon continues to wane and becomes a waning moon hanging in the eastern sky before dawn. The position of the waning moon in the sky is getting closer and closer to the sun, and the bright part is getting brighter and brighter. After a while, it finally turns to the same direction as the sun, and the moon will all turn black, and the new moon will come again. This is also a cycle..."
"What a magical feeling..." Monkey scratched his head. He had seen theories about the earth, the moon, and the sun before, so he understood them.
But some people don't understand.
The squirrel pulled Fangzheng's ears curiously, and asked, "Master, what you said is strange. The moon and the sun are both in the sky. If they are together, won't they collide?"
Fangzheng directly put the squirrel on the monkey's shoulder, and said, "Jingzhen, tell Jingkuan why the sun and the moon can't collide."
Facing the curious baby squirrel, Fangzheng directly chose to surrender. When this little thing is full every day, he will go out to find food, and then come back to continue eating, sleep when he is tired, and eat when he wakes up... The things in his mind are basically useless. Explain the sun and the moon to him, he will definitely He will also ask questions about the universe...Fang Zheng is going to stew squirrels if he continues to ask questions layer by layer.
In addition, the villagers also came, tables and chairs were set up, women began to busy arranging dishes, men offered incense, bragging outside the temple, nonsense, children running around, screaming, from time to time With the sound of two firecrackers, the originally quiet summit of Yizhi Mountain suddenly became lively.
Amid the noise, the moon is getting higher and higher, and everyone's interest is getting better and better. Although you can't drink, this is the first time that everyone is on the top of the mountain, enjoying the full moon, eating moon cakes, looking at the moon, bragging about it, and hitting the bear... These days are extremely comfortable and unrestrained.
Although Fangzheng was a landlord, as a monk, he definitely couldn't brag with them and chat with everyone casually. If anyone had any questions, Fangzheng would help to answer them. When everyone had no problem, Fangzheng quietly left the crowd. Sitting in the distance, watching this lively scene, Fangzheng's heart became extremely peaceful.
"It's no wonder Master often said that you can only be quiet if you seek tranquility amidst the hustle and bustle. Hiding deep in the mountains is not pure. If you force yourself to hide in the quiet, you will not be able to calm down. When you calm down, no matter how chaotic the outside world is, it will still be quiet." Fangzheng murmured.
At this moment, there was a burst of laughter, and then a group of children ran all over the ground screaming and chasing the squirrel, and finally the squirrel turned a corner and got into the grass, and a group of bear children began to rummage the squirrel in the grass.
After a while, Fangzheng's legs tightened, and the squirrel crawled up Fangzheng's trouser legs, and said slyly: "Master, please don't say that I am here. These children are too crazy... I can't bear it. Run away again." If I go down, I will lose the scale, and the autumn fat I have raised so hard can't just be lost like this."
Fangzheng also knows that many animals will put on autumn fat before winter, that is, eat a lot of high-calorie and high-fat food, fatten themselves, and store a large amount of fat energy in their bodies to survive the winter. But the squirrel obviously doesn't need it anymore. He has been enjoying the fire this winter, eating warm rice, so he still needs to raise autumn fat?
No matter how Fangzheng looked at it, he felt that this little thing was getting lazy.
At this moment, Mengmeng came over, and the squirrel immediately hid.
Mengmeng squatted directly next to Fangzheng, leaning on Fangzheng's legs, like a little milk cat, her big eyes narrowed, she seemed a little sleepy. After all, Mengmeng is still young, not as energetic as those older children. The adults over there chatted so loudly and loudly that the little guy couldn't sleep, so he ran to Fangzheng. The little guy said cutely: "Brother Fangzheng, Mengmeng is sleepy, can you tell Mengmeng a story?"
Fangzheng was taken aback, telling a story to the child? He really didn't think about it, looked up at the moon, smiled immediately, and said, "Okay, then let me tell you a story about a beautiful sister?"
"Okay, okay..." Although Mengmeng was clapping her hands, her big eyes closed even more.
Fangzheng said: "Mengmeng, do you know why everyone admires the moon on the fifteenth day? I know you don't. It is said that there was a very beautiful woman in ancient times... Hou Yi shot down nine suns... Chang'e ate the elixir by mistake , pulling things desperately, not wanting to fly away, but in a hurry, she only grabbed a rabbit she raised, so she and the rabbit flew to the moon. Ancient women believed that the moon was the largest and brightest on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. , is also the closest to the ground, if you pray to the moon, you will be blessed by Chang'e and become as beautiful as Chang'e. So beautiful girls look at the moon on this day, and gradually formed this custom. Mengmeng?"