Since the original poster asked about the legend of the solar eclipse, I will not hesitate to copy it.

One of the legends: Tengu eats the sun. Among the ten disciples of Sakyamuni, there is a young master named Mulian. He is fond of Buddha by nature, kind-hearted and very filial to his mother.

But Mulian's mother, as an empress, was violent by nature and liked and disliked others.

Once, Mulian's mother suddenly had a sudden whim and came up with an evil idea: If the monks recite the Buddha's name and become vegetarians, I will tease them by eating meat and dog meat.

She ordered three hundred and sixty dog ??meat steamed buns to be made, saying they were vegetarian steamed buns, and she wanted to go to the temple to donate them.

When Mulian found out about this, he persuaded his mother not to listen, and hurriedly sent someone to notify the abbot of the temple.

The abbot prepared 360 plain steamed buns and hid them in the sleeves of each monk's cassock.

Mulian's mother came to Zhai and gave each monk a dog meat bun.

When the monk was chanting Buddha's name before the meal, he exchanged the dog meat steamed bun with the plain steamed bun in his sleeve, and then ate it.

Mulian's mother saw that all the monks had eaten her steamed buns. She clapped her hands and laughed and said, "Hehe, today the monks are eating meat! The monks are eating dog steamed buns!" The abbot clasped his hands together and chanted: "Amitabha, sin, sin."

!" Afterwards, 360 dog meat buns were buried in the soil behind the temple.

When the Jade Emperor found out about this, he was very angry.

He sent Mulian's mother to the eighteenth level of hell and turned into a vicious dog, unable to be reincarnated forever.

Mulian was a filial son. When he learned that his mother had been sent to hell, he practiced day and night and finally became Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

In order to save his mother, he used a tin staff to open the gate of hell.

Mulian's mother and all the evil spirits escaped from hell and were reborn in the mortal world to cause chaos.

The Jade Emperor was furious and ordered Mulian to descend to earth and join Huang Chao.

Later, "Huang Chao killed eight million people". Legend has it that he came to collect these evil ghosts who escaped from hell.

Mulian's mother turned into a vicious dog. After escaping from hell, she hated the Jade Emperor so much that she rushed to heaven to settle accounts with the Jade Emperor.

She couldn't find the Jade Emperor in the sky, so she chased the sun and the moon, trying to devour them and turn the heaven and earth into a dark world.

This vicious dog chased and chased day and night!

When she catches the moon, she swallows the moon in one gulp; when she catches the sun, she gulps down the sun in one gulp.

However, the vicious dog that Mother Mulian turned into was most afraid of gongs, drums and setting off firecrackers. The vicious dog was so frightened that it had to vomit out the sun and moon that it swallowed.

After the sun and moon were rescued, they shined together again and started to move again.

The evil dog was unwilling to catch up again, thus forming solar and lunar eclipses again and again in the sky.

Folks call it "Tengu eats the sun" and "Tengu eats the moon".

Until now, during every solar or lunar eclipse, many urban and rural people still have the custom of beating gongs, drums, and setting off firecrackers to drive away the Tengu.

Legend 2: Asura eats the sun. Asura is one of the eight heavenly dragons and was originally an evil god in ancient Indian mythology.

Buddhist scriptures call Asuras "non-heavens" or "evil heavens", which means they provoke wars for no reason, and they are extremely ugly in men and extremely beautiful in women.

He is similar to a ghost, but he is not a ghost; he has the same emotions and desires as a human, but he is not a human.

He is a kind of monster that is neither god, nor ghost, nor human, and extremely ugly.

According to Buddhist legend, Asura and Emperor Shakti are enemies and always fight with each other.

Because the Asuras have beauties but no delicious food, and the Celestials have delicacies but no beauties, they are jealous and rob each other. In the end, the Asuras are defeated and expelled from the heavens, living in the caves of Mount Milu.

Later, during a meeting where the gods drank the nectar of immortality, an Asura named Rahu got in. He was discovered by the Moon God and the Sun God and had his head chopped off. However, the nectar of immortality he drank did not reach his stomach and only reached his throat, so

Only the head rushed up to the sky with resentment and turned into the dark star Luohou, which kept chasing the sun and the moon and biting it. Since there was no lower body, it would fall out soon after being eaten. This is the reason for the eclipse of the sun and the moon.

As for the remaining body, it turned into another dark star Jidu Star.

Legend 3: Huang Wan cleverly solved the solar eclipse at the age of seven. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a high-ranking official named Huang Wan who had served as a Taiwei. He had discussed with Situ Wang Yun to eliminate the evil thief Dong Zhuo.

Huang Wan was very smart and eloquent when he was very young.

In the first year of Jianhe reign during the reign of Emperor Huan Liu Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huang Wan's grandfather Huang Qiong served as the prefect of Wei County at the junction of Hebei and Shandong, and Xiao Wan also lived there with him.

In the first month, the weather changed and a solar eclipse suddenly occurred in the sky.

The people in the dozen or so counties under the jurisdiction of Weijun saw it clearly, but the people in the capital could not see it.

The news reached the court, and the Queen Mother immediately summoned Huang Qiong.

Huang Qiong did not dare to neglect, took Huang Wan with him, got on the carriage, and rushed to the capital at starry night.

After entering the palace, the Queen Mother sat under a canopy surrounded by palace ladies to receive her.

Huang Qiong's grandfather and grandson fell on the ground and kowtowed several times.

The Queen Mother smiled and asked: "Who is the child?" Huang Qiong replied: "He is the grandson of Wei Chen, named Huang Wan." The Queen Mother asked: "How old are you?" Huang Qiong replied: "Five years old." The Queen Mother

Said: "Oh! Did you see the solar eclipse in Wei County?" Huang Wan replied clearly and clearly: "Thanks to the Queen Mother Hongfu, I saw it." The Queen Mother turned to Huang Qiong and asked: "What is the solar eclipse about?" Huang Qiong

For a moment, I couldn't think of any accurate and vivid words to explain the appearance of the solar eclipse, and my face turned red.

Huang Wan was so clever that he nudged his embarrassed grandfather with his elbow.

Grandfather tilted his head towards him, and Huang Wan said softly: "You said that the solar eclipse is like the first quarter of the moon at the beginning of the month." Huang Qiong was greatly surprised and quickly reported his grandson's statement to the Queen Mother.

After hearing this, the Queen Mother laughed and said, "Oh, that's right! The Tengu's mouth is too small to swallow the whole day!" She then said, "Don't hide anything my grandson is whispering to you, please don't hide it from me." Huang Qiong was surprised.

He quickly knelt on the ground to apologize and said, "Xiao Wan taught me how to answer the Queen Mother's questions in detail." The Queen Mother smiled and said, "I have long seen that this is a smart child.