The legends of Mid-autumn Festival are very rich, some fairy tales widespread such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurels and the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine.
Wu Gang Cutting Laurels
According to legend, lush and luxuriant grew the large laurel in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon, which was high up to more than 500 dekametres. A man under the tree was cutting it for many many years.
But each time he finished one stroke, the cutting recovered itself right away, so the tree could not be chopped down for tens of thousands of years.
It is said that the man chopping the tree was Wu Gang from Xihe in the Han Dynasty.
Once he followed an supernatural being to learn Tao to become immortal, but reaching Heaven, he made a mistake and was exiled to the cold moon where he did the unpleasant and uninteresting drudgery in vain every day in order to show him a necessary punishment.
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