Wu Gang was punished for his jealousy (and murder) by being banished to the moon and there forced to cut down a bay tree. The tree, however, was self healing, and so he was never done with chopping.
what is interesting is that this is an allegory of nature (the tree) resisting, in a kind of parallel endlessness, the chopping of Wu Gang.. this is a system in balance, ever replenishing --so while the tree and the man are engaged in ceaseless labor, the system itself is intact.
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