MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL
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| FABLES OF THE MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL |
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| Chang Er: she stole the Elixir of Life from her husband and floated to the moon to become an immortal. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Wu Kang, because of his impatience that angered a god, was banished to the moon to chop down a cassia tree before he could return to Earth. Of course the magic tree keeps regenerating itself, making it impossible for him to return. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Hare on the moon, mixing more Elixir of Immortality. This came from the shapes of the craters on the moon that ancient Chinese saw as in the shape of a rabbit (depending on the side of the moon facing Earth). | |||||||||||||||||
| back to Hong Kong collection / | |||||||||||||||||
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