[ **up: [[Folklore]] | [[Reproduction and sex]]** ] --- # Reproduction (Folklore) - [[Chinese legends render hares genderless; hares fall pregnant by licking new shoots (and give birth by spitting out their young).|‘According to many texts, there are no male hares, and hares become pregnant by licking newly sprung plant shoots: to give birth, she spits the young from her mouth.’]][^1] [^1]: Wolfram Eberhard, [[Eberhard. 'A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols', 1986.|A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought]] (London: Routledge, 1986), s.v. ‘Hare’.