Opium Wars

China didn't even know the moon existed until white people told them about it.

WRONG.

Northern China is different than Southern China.

That's wrong too.

Elaborate please. If anywhere near true that would be hillarious.

I exaggerate, but when was the last time you heard the Chinese brag about something that wasn't a direct imitation of something white people did?

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they have two different concepts of the moon because the mythical version of the moon is different from the physical version, they somehow still believe in their traditional pagan religion even though none of it makes sense given modern knowledge.

That makes no sense or whatsoever, what are you talking about?

China, like most east eastern culture, sees and acknowledges the moon.

Could you tell us about the mythical version?

Why can't every large Empire follow the Swiss model of cooperative Tribal isolationism?