Chinese paintings about Mid-Autumn Festival

Updated: 2014-08-26 16:03

By Yu Xiaoou(chinaculture.org)

 

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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.