🌠Yutu culture

Yutu appears in many other cultures across the world.

• In Korea and Japan Yutu does not make divine medicines, but rather pounds mochi rice cakes in his mortar. Here, he has a similar origination story as in Chinese culture, all seeming to stem from the Jataka Tales of India.

• In Vietnam, Yutu is called Thỏ Trắng who was taken to the moon by a fairy.

• Native Americans and the Aztecs are also known to have stories about a rabbit on the moon.

• A recent unmanned Chinese lunar rover was named 玉兔 – Yùtù, after following an online poll. It formed part of the Chinese Chang-E 3 mission to the Moon, and makes an apt name.