Lunar Datebook

Chinese Full Moon Celebration and "Burdock War"


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Episode 31- February 1, 2015

How do the Chinese introduce their babies to the world? Host Jennifer Ellsworth explains a traditional Full Moon Celebration and reads a short story about an aging woman with one last battle in her: "Burdock War."

"The war declaration came the first day of February. I was sitting alongside the wood stove waiting until it was time to make my biscuits, staring down along the pasture to the orchard. The pasture was scattered with snow-covered people...."

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