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Oct 12, 2026

speaker_0HOST
3:44
That makes so much sense.
speaker_1HOST
3:45
The text even explicitly says she looks like the moon goddess Chang'e descending from the heavens.
speaker_0HOST
3:49
So she walks in, looking like the literal pinnacle of idealized grace, and she asks with total authority, "Who dares enter the fairy's bedroom?"
speaker_1HOST
3:59
She's very confident.
AnastaciaHOST
5:37
All over the world, the moon has been a woman.
AnastaciaHOST
5:42
Selene and Artemis in Greece, Chang'e in China, and where I grew up in Aotearoa, Hina, who in many Polynesian stories lives in the moon.
AnastaciaHOST
5:58
When I open a six-hundred-year-old book and find women in water under the stars surrounded by circles of the sky- I don't think that's random.
AnastaciaHOST
6:10
I think whoever made it knew something about how these things belong together.
FrazerHOST
13:28
There are several stories.
FrazerHOST
13:30
One of the most famous is the story of Chang'e.
FrazerHOST
13:33
James listened.
FrazerHOST
13:35
Wei explained that according to the traditional legend, Chang'e took a special liquid medicine and flew to the moon where she lived.
FrazerHOST
13:44
So, she's supposed to live up there?
Tyler ReddickADVERTISER
13:46
Well, that's the story,
Katherine NeishHOST
29:17
So yeah, there's stories about Cain in Chinese mythology.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:20
They talk about the goddess Chang'e stranded upon the moon.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:23
And in some versions, she's accompanied by Yutu, which is a moon rabbit.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:28
And the Chinese have actually named all of their lunar missions after Chang'e and Yutu.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:33
The orbiters typically are called Chang'e.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:35
I think we're up to Chang'e 7 now.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:37
And then we've had the rovers on the moon are called Yutu.
Katherine NeishHOST
29:41
So that's kind of fun.

Unknown podcast

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2-Songling Pu

Sep 26 · 1 Mention

Nick GoldNARRATOR
23:58
I have been with you in my dreams until I am quite worn out.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
24:03
Does the blue sky look down upon any grief like mine? Yet Chang-o lives solitary in the moon, and Chi-nu laments that she cannot cross the Silver River.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
24:16
Who am I that I should expect happiness to be mine? Truly this thought turns my tears into joy.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
24:24
Two months after your departure I had twins, who can already prattle away in the language of childhood, at one moment snatching a date, at another a pear.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
3:41
The story I have for you today is about the origin of this festival.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
3:45
Now, sit back and enjoy this Chinese folktale of Hou Yi, the great archer, and his wife, Chang'e.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
3:55
Long, long ago, Chang'e and her husband, Hou Yi, the great archer, were immortals living in Heaven.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
4:03
Now, Chang'e and Hou Yi were madly in love.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
4:06
One day, the 10 sons of the Jade Emperor transformed themselves into 10 suns, and the Earth became very hot.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
4:18
The water in the lakes and the rice paddies dried up.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
4:51
Unfortunately, this was not what the Jade Emperor had in mind when he asked for Hou Yi's help.
Alton Takiyama ChungGUEST
4:58
Suddenly losing nine sons, [sighs] well, he was not very pleased with Hou Yi.
Steve HatherlyHOST
9:10
There are legendary tales that are associated.
Steve HatherlyHOST
9:14
I'm not an expert, of course, but Chang'e, I think, is one of the stories that's closely associated.
YushanHOST
9:19
According to many folk lore and folk tales, Chang'e is indeed the goddess who is living in a palace, the moon palace on the moon.
YushanHOST
9:30
Well, thousands of thousands of years ago, when the legendary hero, he's an archer called Hou Yi, when he received an elixir of immortality, His wife, Chang'e, back then still a mortal like the rest of us, she drank it to protect it from a villain.
YushanHOST
9:47
Then immediately after drinking it, Chang'e herself flowed up to the moon where she became a moon goddess and is just commemorated every mid-autumn night as a sign of yeah people pray to her and also other like moon related goddess if it's following Taoism culture then yeah we pray for a good harvest next year we pray for a good matchmaking especially if it's unwed girls and we pray for like just a A pleasant home or harmony home culture for the next year or something like that.
YushanHOST
10:21
And also another symbol of the legendary of Mid-Autumn Festival or the moon is the jade rabbit.
YushanHOST
10:29
Lives together with Chang'e? Exactly.
YushanHOST
10:32
We can also...
Steve HatherlyHOST
8:07
There are legendary tales that are associated.
Steve HatherlyHOST
8:11
I'm not an expert, of course, but Chang'e, I think, is one of the stories that's closely associated.
YushanHOST
8:16
According to many folk lore and folk tales, Chang'e is indeed the goddess who is living in a palace, the moon palace on the moon.
YushanHOST
8:27
Well, thousands of thousands of years ago, when the legendary hero, he's an archer called Hou Yi, when he received an elixir of immortality, His wife Chang'e, back then still a mortal like the rest of us, she drank it to protect it from a villain.
YushanHOST
8:44
Then immediately after drinking it, Chang'e herself float up to the moon where she became a moon goddess and is just commemorated every mid-autumn night as a sign of yeah people pray to her and also other like moon related goddess if it's um following taoism culture then yeah we pray for a good harvest next year we pray for a good matchmaking especially if it's unwed girls okay and we pray for like just a a pleasant home or harmony home culture for the next year or something like that.
YushanHOST
9:16
And also another symbol of the legendary of Mid-Autumn Festival or the moon is the jade rabbit.
YushanHOST
9:23
It lives together with Chang'e.
YushanHOST
9:26
Exactly.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
23:58
I have been with you in my dreams until I am quite worn out.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
24:03
Does the blue sky look down upon any grief like mine? Yet Chang-o lives solitary in the moon, and Chi-nu laments that she cannot cross the Silver River.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
24:16
Who am I that I should expect happiness to be mine? Truly this thought turns my tears into joy.
Nick GoldNARRATOR
24:24
Two months after your departure I had twins, who can already prattle away in the language of childhood, at one moment snatching a date, at another a pear.
Mark EllisonHOST
5:38
The Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival.
Mark EllisonHOST
5:41
Also called the Moon Festival or Jong Chiu Ji, it's a time for family reunions, mooncakes, and legends like Chang'e.
Mark EllisonHOST
5:49
Vietnam marks a related celebration, Tet Trung Thu, also centered on lanterns and the full moon.
Mark EllisonHOST
5:55
Question 3.

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