page_title: List of Journey to the West characters
section_title: Jade Rabbit Spirit
hierarchical_section_title: List of Journey to the West characters / Antagonists / Jade Rabbit Spirit
caption_attribution_description: Jade rabbit and monkey dramatically framed against an enormous moon tinged with pink.
context_page_description: The following is a list of characters in the Chinese classical 16th century novel Journey to the West, including those mentioned by name only.
context_section_description: The Jade Rabbit Spirit (玉兔精) is actually the moon rabbit that pounds a mortar and pestle in Guanghan Palace (廣寒宮) on the Moon. The fairy Su'e (素娥) once hit her and she bore a grudge against her. Su'e was later reincarnated as a princess of India (天竺). The rabbit escapes into the human world to take revenge against Su'e. She lives in Maoying Mountain (毛穎山) and wields a short staff (transformed from the pestle) as her weapon. She kidnaps the princess of India and impersonates her. She meets Tang Sanzang when he passes by India on his journey, and wants to marry him so that she can absorb his yang essence and increase her powers. Sun Wukong sees through her disguise and fights with her. Just as Sun Wukong is about to defeat the Jade Rabbit, the moon goddess, Chang'e, shows up, stops him, assumes custody of the wayward-rabbit, and takes her back to the Moon and to her work.
caption: Sun Wukong and the Moon Rabbit, depicted in Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 1889.
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