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reekloose: picking up the (non-virtual) brushes again. this one’s called “waiting for the barbarians”…enjoying this again. here’s the link if you’re interested in buying the original artwork: http://goo.gl/T5Jvq
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explore-blog: Patent drawing for the Fisher Anti-Gravity Pen, a.k.a. the NASA “space pen” that popular legend says the Russians outsmarted with a mere pencil. 

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fuckyeshuaxia: Today’s August 15th, or, as Chinese and Taiwanese folk know it, 中秋节 - the biggest full moon of the entire year (see, this is just one of the perks of adopting a lunar over a Gregorian calendar — you know when these things happen).  The story goes that Chang’e and her husband Houyi were immortals in Heaven. The ten suns of the Jade Emperor decided to be dicks and transform into ten never-setting suns. Which, y’know. Was the greatest idea ever. They scorched the earth, drying rivers, laying waste to the land. The Jade Emperor asked Houyi the Archer to help him constrain his suns (Ha. Ha. Bad pun). And Houyi, because he was great at thinking ahead, shot nine of the Jade Emperor’s sons to death. Which made the Jade Emperor extremely happy, since he was now down nine sons. (He wasn’t happy.) He banished both Houyi and Chang’e to live their lives as mortals on earth. Chang’e wasn’t very happy with this arrangement, so Houyi set out on a quest to reattain their immortality. He met 西王母，and she gave him one immortality pill to split between the two of them, as you only needed half the pill to become immortal.  Houyi brought it home, and warned his wife not to touch it before he came back from the fields, but she was curious and opened it just as Houyi was coming home. Afraid that he was going to chasten her for not doing as he asked of her, she swallowed the pill and not only did she become immortal, she also floated up to the moon, where she lives to this day, accompanied by the Jade Rabbit, who, according to some versions, was asked by Chang’e to make another pill, so that she could return home to Houyi. Which is why you see the Jade Rabbit working at its mortar and pestel on the moon. (In most stories of the Jade Rabbit, though, it makes medicine for the gods and the immortals.) In some versions, Houyi eventually built a palace on the sun, representing the yang (the sun is associated with yangqi, and is the more masculine of the two) to Chang’e’s residence on the moon, which represents the yin (the moon is associated with the yinqi, which is the more feminine of the two) and visits her every year on August 15th, which is why the moon is so bright and so beautiful then. People used to light lanterns so that she could see them from the moon, but now we just eat mooncakes. There are several alternate versions to the story, but none I like as much. The Mid-Autumn’s Festival was originally a harvest festival that was first described in the Rites of Zhou, 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but the actual celebration of August 15 did not become as popular as it is today until the Tang Dynasty.  According to folk legend though, the Midautumn’s Festival is a commemoration of the uprising against the Yuan in the 14th century and the establishment of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang (not the nicest guy). Noting that the Mongols didn’t eat mooncakes, an advisor to Zhu Yuanzhang distributed mooncakes bearing messages alerting the people that August 15 was the planned date of the uprising, and that’s why mooncakes are eaten at a national level. Midautumn’s is also sometimes referred to as the “Lantern Festival” (though our actual Lantern Festival is a different celebration, called Yuanxiao) because we often light lanterns, including sky lanterns (yeah, that one scene in Tangled may as well have been lifted from a Midautumn’s scene in East Asia), one which are pasted riddles, or 谜语, which are fun to solve. (the image above is actually from Qixi — we enjoy our lanterns, though of late safety concerns have been raised) We also burn incense, perform Dragon Dances, and matchmake (girls are encouraged to throw their handkerchiefs into a crowd, and the person who returns it to her may become her beloved), according to region.
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