There are three sayings of "rhinoceros looking at the moon":
One is the historical idiom:
It's also called "Wu Niu Chuan Yue", and "Wu Niu Chuan Yue" is an idiom. Five cows refer to buffaloes in Jianghuai area. When Wu Buffalo saw the moon, he thought it was the sun. He gasped for air for fear of sun exposure. It is a metaphor for being afraid of similar things, and it also refers to hot summer. This sentence comes from Liu Yiqing's "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Yan" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "I am strong and brave, and I am afraid of the wind. I am sitting in the Emperor Wu of Jin, and the north window screen is as dense as sparse. Excited is reluctant, and the emperor laughs. I replied vigorously: I am still a black cow, and I am panting at the sight of the moon. " This is a quip made by Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty to laugh at a minister with rheumatism, but it has become an idiom. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once said in the poem "Song of Protection": "Why do tugboats suffer?" He lamented the sufferings of the boatman.
This is a myth:
The rhinoceros was originally a god in the sky. It was appointed by the Jade Emperor to convey the living standard to the lower world and asked people to "dress up three times a day". It means paying attention to etiquette and eating less sweets. The rhinoceros was disturbed when it came to the world of flowers and flowers, and conveyed the jade emperor's will as "three meals a day and one dress", which completely reversed the meaning of the emperor. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and sent him to heaven. Because I miss life in the Heavenly Palace, I look up at the moon at night, which is the origin of "rhinoceros looking at the moon".
There is another legend:
At the foot of Yandang Mountain, there is a girl named Yu Zhen, whose parents died very early. At the age of six, she worked as a shepherd for Hua Laocai. Yu Zhen goes to bed late and gets up early every night, living alone with the cattle. Hua Laocai is a womanizer. He became evil when he saw Yu Zhensheng so beautiful.
One night, Hua Laocai asked the housekeeper and thugs to tie Yu Zhen up and was about to pounce on the girl. Unexpectedly, an ox-tail-like iron whipped the old man in China's face, and erected two sharp corners and poked his eyes. The old cow took the opportunity to bite Miss Yu Zhen's rope and knelt down and said, "Come, ride on my back!" " "It turned out that the old cow was a fairy. I saw that it spread its hooves and ran towards the top of Xialing Mountain. The mobs shouted and surrounded it. Run, run, run to the top of the mountain. There is no place to run. Old Niu Jiao Yu Zhen stood on a trumpet, and Yu Zhen flew into the sky on the trumpet. The old cow became a one-horned stone rhinoceros. Miss Yu Zhen flew all the way to the Moon Palace. From then on, the rhinoceros looked up and missed its mistress. So there is the story of rhinoceros looking at the moon.