![]() The Japanese reading of 嫦娥 is Jouga, and this is the pronunciation used in Touhou Project. ![]() According to the rules of hanyu pinyin romanization, the apostrophe is inserted for disambiguity: Change could be mistakenly analyzed as Chan-ge. The circumstances of her drinking the elixir varies: in some versions, she drinks it to keep the gift of immortality from her despotic husband, whilst in others she is a selfish princess who drinks it because she herself seeks the power.Ĭhang'e is the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of her name. In most versions of her story, her husband Houyi acquires an elixir of immortality and comes home after an absence to discover that Chang'e has drunk it, after which she rises to the Moon. The Touhou character Chang'e is closely based on a lunar goddess of the same name in Chinese mythology. It was unknown what happened to her until Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, when it was revealed that Junko and Hecatia Lapislazuli had a grudge towards her and that they intended on invading the Lunar Capital to reach her whilst she is still in prison. Today, the moon rabbits sing in unison when pounding mochi to atone for her sin of drinking the elixir. Little is known about her except that she lived on the Moon and was mistress of the moon rabbits before drinking the Hourai Elixir and becoming immortal, for which crime she was imprisoned for her now-eternal life.
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