Old Man of the Moon (The)

The Chinese deity who links in wedlock predestined couples. (See Man in the Moon.)

“The Chinese have a firm belief in marriages being made in heaven. A certain deity, whom they call the ‘Old Man of the Moon,ʹ links with a silken cord all predestined couples.”—J. N. Jordan: Modern China (Nineteenth Century, July, 1886, p. 45).