[meteorite-list] Chang's Moon

[drtanuki]

Hi Doug and List,
  Thanks Doug for the interesting post as always.  The
rabbit goes by the name of Moon Rabbit (ŒŽ™\) or Jade
Rabbit (‹Ê™\) (aka Gold Rabbit (‹à™\).
  The Rabbit in Japanese folklore,ŒŽ‚Ì“e, is busy
pounding mochi (sticky rice cakes) in a traditional
mochi mortar; mochi is eatten during the Lunar New
Year (mochizuki- full moon) by Japanese to ensure a
long life.
  In Chinese mythology, the rabbit is given the task
of helping the moon goddess, Chang`e, make magical
eternal life elixer from herbs.

  For more about this:

http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/nikko-gakko.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit

  Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo


--- mexicodoug <mexicodoug at aol.com> wrote:

> Here's the first public photo from China's first
> Moon orbiter launched last 
> month.
> 
>
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/n639462/132125.html
> 
> Not bad for the Chang'e ship (apparently pronounced
> "Ch-ong-er" after the 
> snooping woman in her husband's personal items, who
> feared being caught, ate 
> the evidence (her husband's vitamin herb) and fled
> in to the Moon with her 
> rabbit that now manufacture herbal remedies).
> 
> By the time we see manned voyages back to the Moon,
> a thriving business in 
> Chinese restaurants will be serving travelers
> take-out.
> 
> The Chinese do have a sense of humor.  Curiously,
> Apollo 11 (Armstrong, 
> Collins, Aldrin, 1969) and Houston joked about this
> Chinese legend upon 
> arriving by the Moon in what was to become the first
> Moonwalk, and now China 
> has contending for the last laugh,
> 
> Mission Control: "...Chinese girl called Chang-o has
> been living there for 
> 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the moon
> because she stole the pill 
> for immortality from her husband. You might also
> look for her companion, a 
> large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he
> is only standing on his 
> hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name
> of the rabbit is not 
> recorded."
> 
> Michael Collins: "OK we'll keep a close eye for the
> bunny-girl."
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Doug 
> 
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