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Home / Cosmos / Moon / In Chinese culture, a rabbit represents the moon and symbolizes grace, beauty, mercy, and good luck

In Chinese culture, a rabbit represents the moon and symbolizes grace, beauty, mercy, and good luck

Updated on May 18, 2024January 13, 2023
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According to an ancient legend, lady Chang’e drank an elixir of life and flew to the moon with a white rabbit in her arms; it was believed Chang’e would live on in immortality as the goddess of the moon and that the spot on the moon was the rabbit.

Chinese new year rabbit

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