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==Jung-Sum is weak and quiet. Wong Suk feels he is week, and the first time him met Poh-Poh, she also felt him was " Too thin."(Poh-Poh 89). She was surprised and said:"Aaiiiyyyah, the boy's a mute!"(Poh-Poh,90) Jung-Sum is quiet, when he fears Poh-Poh, he is much quieter then before to make Poh-Poh worried that Jung-Sum is a mute boy. When the first time he met Kiam, Kiam called him sissy. That shows he is not like other boys that outgoing and naughty, he is __special__. "He has different blood. More handsome that your own two grandsons."(Mrs Lim 87) Jung-Sum was adopted, that is the reason why he is different than Kiam and Sekky. The other reason describing his difference is that he is the moon, or yin. "Jung-Sum is the moon."(Poh-Poh 88) Moon foreshadowing Jung-Sum is a gay, Poh-Poh also said he is yin, it is opposite of yang, in __old__ Chinese culture, yang symbolize male and yin means female. That makes him more careful than other boys.He takes care of the turtle, carefully and with patience. Moon and yin __gave__ the character to him. ==

==Jung-Sum, or Yee Doy (83), who was born approximately in 1926 in Kamloops, B.C., is one of the main characters in the novel “The Jade Peony”. When he was very young, his parents died (95). Herby Chin kept him at first, however, he was taken away many times by strange families. Finally, in 1931, Mr.Chang took him to Hahm-sui-fauh, which is the Chinese way to __call__ Vancouver, and Poh-Poh adopted him (98). He was four years old at that time, living in the same room with his __new__ brother, Kiam, and never cried. ==

==1936, Jung-Sum was 10 years old (76). Jung-Sum had found a lao-kwei, old turtle, in his __house__ which was left by Dai Kew. Jung was truly __interest__ in the turtle and then took the responsibilities of taking care of it, he even gave the turtle an __English__ name, King George and got a little bit famous around friends and classmates. ==

==1938, Jung-Sum was 12 years old (100). Jung’s father __always__ let him get the rent __money__ from Old Yuen and consequently Jung met Old Yuen’s son, Frank. At that time, Jung had learned how to box at the Hastings Gym where he met Max. When he got a “new” jacket and took it to Gee Sook’s (110), he wished Frank could see him (112). Junk did not realize his sexual preference and his feeling about Frank, while Poh-Poh had already said that Jung was the moon, the Yin side (88). ==

==1939. Jung had rejected to be Old Yuen’s son (122), Jung- Sum had grown some kind of strange feeling toward Frank. “No one realized that I still saw Frank Yuen (__125__).” After an actual fight with Frank, drunk, Frank kissed Jung’s forehead at Hastings Gym. On Jung’s way home, he realized his real sexual preference, and recalled how Poh-Poh once called him the moon and understood why Poh-Poh said so. He was a homosexual. ==

==1940. Jung-Sum was 14. Frank was going to join U.S. Marines. Jung, Frank, Kiam and several friends held a good-bye party for Frank. Frank asked Jung to keep a gold watch for him, which Frank got from his father, Old Yuen. Frank kissed and hugged Jung, and those actions made him more fragile. On Jung’s way home, he found out that it is Frank what he need the most. ==

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more boys, because in old Chinese society, girl have no status and they
== are useless, and the other reason is girls always must marry with a man, and then, they will belong to the man's family. They cannot continue their family name. No body want to cultivate a kid for other family. So if Jung-Sum was a girl, no one will pick up her. There are really unfair issues of adoption between girls and boys. ==

== Jung-Sum was special due to his sexuality. He had feeling for Frank. "Frank Yuen is the sun. I remembered thinking, and I remembered also the Old one telling Mrs Lim ' Jung-Sum is the moon' " (narrow 132) Jung-Sum have the opposite sexuality than other normal people, he was a gay. In old China, the love between two males was not allow. The most important thing of a man was to continue his family's bloodline and their last name. Two man cannot have babies, and in the elders' consideration, that violates the nature fertility rules. Therefore, Jung-Sum's loving was not allow in old China. ==

==Moon is the key symbol of the homosexual in this novel. Jung-Sum has realized that he is a homosexual at the end of part**Ⅱ.** ==

==“Of course,” Mrs. Lim responded, blunt. “He has different blood. More handsome than your own two grandsons.” ==

==“Very ordinary to me,” Mrs. Lim chaimed back. “All Jung wants to do is to fight all the other boys. All boys the same!” ==

==Mrs. Lim stopped drinking her tea, her eyes as alert as the Old One’s. Between her fingers she held a half-shelled melon seed. ==

==Mrs. Lim knew the moon was the yin principle, the female. Mrs. Lim studied me as I went through my paces, jabbing away at the air. ==

==<span style="color: #f45757; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">In china, moon is the yin principle and represent female, sun is the yang principle represent the male. When Poh-Poh said Jung-Sum is the moon, Mrs. Lim is very surprise, because she knew the moon is the yin principle and represent the female. == ==<span style="color: #f45757; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Poh-poh is the first person found the feminine inside of Jung-sum and emphasize he is different from other boys. She compared Jung-sum as the moon instead of the sun because the moon is more feminine. For the different Jung-Sum takes up the boxing to become stronger, more like a man. Later, he met Frank who is good at boxing and become friend. Jung-Sum admires Frank and also attracted by him. Finally, when Frank Yuan was going to Seattle to sign up with the U.S.Marines, he realizes that Frank Yan was the one he “desired most at that moment”(138). So Poh-poh’s word that “Jung-Sum is the moon” (88)has been the foreshadowing of that Jung-Sum could be homosexual at the end. ==

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==<span style="color: #f45757; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Jung Sum is a weak person in the Jade Peony. The speaking of Poh-Poh shows it. Poh-Poh has said that Jung Sum is the moon, or yin, that shows compare with a boy, Jung Sum like a girl more. In fact Jung Sum is a gay who play the female in the couple. The linked between Jung Sum is subtle; Jung Sum does not like Poh-Poh, but Poh-Poh really knows him a lot. Jung Sum is an careful person, he take care about the things around him more than a normal boy, these are all be looked by Poh-Poh, with Poh-Poh’s words, Jung Sum’s weak is showed out. ==

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==<span style="color: #f45757; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Jung Sum is a stubborn person in the Jade Peony. The linked between his homosexual lover Frank and him can show that apparent. Jung Sum and Frank both like boxing, and they fought when they met. Jung Sum could not win Frank with his weak body, but he get up again and again after he was knockout by Frank. Frank has said Jung Sum is sissy before they fight, in fact, Jung Sum just looks sissy, and he is very strong and stubborn in his heart. It does not mean Jung Sum is not attentive; Jung Sum has both the mind of male and female. ==

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