From a sign of evil intent to a symbol of peace and prosperity, humans have long been captivated by the Moon and how it shapes the world around us.
"The Moon plays a very important role in Chinese culture, history, literature, philosophy, everything basically," Shengyu Fan, deputy director of languages at ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific, says."For thousands of years, Chinese people have been using the lunar calendar in order to know when to plant and when to harvest."
"One of the spacecrafts that China recently sent up to the Moon was named after the goddess," Dr Fan says. Humans have long sought to understand and explain the Moon and all of its complexities — and it's not hard to understand why. "[But] even before telescopes, people thought that the dark patches represented seas, probably a case of projection of their known world onto another world."The Moon was the ultimate goal of the USA-USSR space race, Professor de Grijs adds: "A place outside the Earth where humans could actually travel to."
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