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As rabbits were not yet introduced to China during Western Han, the original image was not a rabbit but a hare.

Han dynasty poets call the hare on the Moon the "Jade Hare" ?? or the "Gold Hare" ??, and these phrases were used often, in place of the word for the Moon. The famed Tang poet Li Bai, relates how "The rabbit in the moon pounds the medicine in vain" in his poem, "The Old Dust".

East Asian folklore

In the Buddhist Jataka tales,

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