Seven Maids of Far Cathay by Ed. Bing Ding
page 48 of 65 (73%)
page 48 of 65 (73%)
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The Mid-Autumn Festival.
Our country has a feast every year, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, to commemorate King Dong Ming who invented the Musical Instruments. This is the story: When King Dong Ming was crowned King he loved a Sorcerer and promised him promotion and set him above all the Princes that were in the land with him. One day the Sorcerer said to him - "I can take you up into the Moon," so King Dong Ming set many masons and carpenters to build a very high tower for looking at the Moon. The tower was finished on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just on the night that the moon was full. That night King Dong Ming prepared a feast in the tower and sent for the Sorcerer to come and banquet with him. When they had feasted they saw a ladder set up on the tower, the top of which reached the Moon. King Dong Ming ascended to the Moon on this great ladder. When they reached there they saw many Moon Daughters all dressed in shining black robes, and crowned with flowers. When the beautiful Moon Daughters saw two men coming in they all stood |
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