• A Work of Renewal for
    Equal Yin and Yang of the Sun and Moon
  • One day, Ho-yun said, “I heard that when the sun falls into the sea, the water boils and bubbles. Please, let me see that.”
  • “It might seem as such, to your eyes,” Sahng-jeh-nim said. “But there is a living apparatus that changes day into night and night into day.”
  • He asked Ho-yun and another child who was there, “How big does the moon look to you?”
  • The other child answered, “It may be as big as a coin. Or a little bigger? Or the size of this dish?”
  • “If the moon were small,” Ho-yun answered, “how could it shine everywhere under heaven? It must be as big as our country, Joseon. It is at least bigger than the round straw mats which are spread under millstones.”
  • Laughing, Sahng-jeh-nim said, “Ho-yun is Ho-yun. How can the moon look so big to you?”
    “It would have to be that big to be seen everywhere. If it were small, could it be seen?”
  • “That’s right,” Sahng-jeh-nim said. “You could say that the moon was a girl and the sun was a boy. But I changed them.”
  • “Is there a way to change them like that?”
    “Yes.”
  • “You must have taken his pepper and put it on the moon.”
    “What?” exclaimed Sahng-jeh-nim. “Oh no! I cannot talk to you any more. You’re too silly.”

  • (JSD Dojeon 4,62)




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