Chinese paintings about Mid-Autumn Festival
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Updated: 2022-09-09 08:55
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Mid-Autumn
Artist: Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
A painting of osmanthus.
Osmanthus appears in mid-autumn paintings frequently because ancient Chinese people believed that there was a huge verdant osmanthus tree on the moon. Under the intertwined tree branches there was a man named Wu Gang, who was wielding an ax chopping it.
