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Moon in Chinese Celestial Cosmology

The choice of the festival’s theme – celebrating the glories and mysteries of the moon — was a natural. Along with the sun, the moon has long been an object of human curiosity and worship. "It is probable that sun and moon were early held to be deities and that they were the first visible [...]

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Representative Works (4)

Miao Jin Feng(Embroidery of Golden Phoenix) is a feature-length traditional piece of SuzhouTanci. According to playbooks handed down from early days, the piece was perhaps created before the Guangxu reign (1875-1909) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Miao Jin Fengtells about the love story of Xu Huilan, an intellectual in Suzhou of Zhejiang Province. The dramatics [...]

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