How The Moon Become Beautiful  OLD FOLKLORE  Listen to the story “How the Moon Became Beautiful” is a beautiful folk tale explaining why it is so happy and bright, published in Chinese Fables and Folk Stories (1908), translated by Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung. How the Moon Became Beautiful The moon is lovely with its round, bright face, which shines with soft and gentle light on all the world of man, but once there was a time when he was not so beautiful as he is now, six thousand years ago, the face of the moon became changed in a single night, before that time, his face had been so dark and gloomy that no one liked to look at him, and for this reason, he…