楊晦八月十二日夜謁王先生。先生刻紙如月，施垣上，洞照一室。又唐周生有道術，中秋謂客曰：“我能取月。”以筯數百條，繩而駕之，曰：“我梯此取月。”俄以手舉衣，懷中出月寸許，清光照爛，寒氣入骨。
On the twelfth day of the eighth month, Yang Hui visited Mr. Wang at night. Mr. Wang cut out a moon from paper and put it up on the wall, filling the entire room with moonlight. Another man called Tang Zhousheng knew magical tricks. On the Mid-Autumn [Day, i.e. the fifteenth day of the eighth month], [he] said to a guest, “I can bring over the moon.” [He] took hundreds of chopsticks, bound them together and rode on [the bundle], saying, “I need this as a ladder to seize the moon.” After a short while [he] lifted his garment and took a miniature moon from his bosom, its pure light shining bright, with a crisp air that penetrates one’s bones.
* From Feng Menglong 馮夢龍 (1574-1646), Gujin xiaoshi 古今笑史 (Shijiazhuang: Hebei Renmin Chubanshe, 1985), 528.
"Duiyue zhou" 對月軸, hanging scroll by Ma Yuan 馬遠 (c. 1160–65 – 1225)
Image credit: National Palace Museum, Taipei
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