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Reading by the moon (Dokusho no tsuki) |
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The Chinese man studying by moonlight is Zi Luo (543-480 B.C.), a pupil of Confucius who became a government official. As a young man, he subsisted mostly on wild plants, but carried sacks of rice long distance for his parents. |
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