Chinese Fairy Tales

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Richard Wilhelm. Chinese Fairy Tales

Preface

NURSERY FAIRY TALES

I. WOMEN’S WORDS PART FLESH AND BLOOD

II. THE THREE RHYMSTERS

III. HOW GREED FOR A TRIFLING THING LED A MAN TO LOSE A GREAT ONE

IV. WHO WAS THE SINNER?

V. THE MAGIC CASK

VI. THE FAVORITE OF FORTUNE AND THE CHILD OF ILL LUCK

VII. THE BIRD WITH NINE HEADS

VIII. THE CAVE OF THE BEASTS

IX. THE PANTHER

X. THE GREAT FLOOD

XI. THE FOX AND THE TIGER

XII. THE TIGER’S DECOY

XIII. THE FOX AND THE RAVEN

XIV. WHY DOG AND CAT ARE ENEMIES

LEGENDS OF THE GODS

XV. HOW THE FIVE ANCIENTS BECAME MEN

XVI. THE HERD BOY AND THE WEAVING MAIDEN

XVII. YANG OERLANG

XVIII. NOTSCHA

XIX. THE LADY OF THE MOON

XX. THE MORNING AND THE EVENING STAR

XXI. THE GIRL WITH THE HORSE’S HEAD OR THE SILKWORM GODDESS

XXII. THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

XXIII. THE FIRE-GOD

XXIV. THE THREE RULING GODS

XXV. A LEGEND OF CONFUCIUS

XXVI. THE GOD OF WAR

TALES OF SAINTS AND MAGICIANS

XXVII. THE HALOS OF THE SAINTS

XXVIII. LAOTSZE

XXIX. THE ANCIENT MAN

XXX. THE EIGHT IMMORTALS (I)

XXXI. THE EIGHT IMMORTALS (II)

XXXII. THE TWO SCHOLARS

XXXIII. THE MISERLY FARMER

XXXIV. SKY O’DAWN

XXXV. KING MU OF DSCHOU

XXXVI. THE KING OF HUAI NAN

XXXVII. OLD DSCHANG

XXXVIII. THE KINDLY MAGICIAN

NATURE AND ANIMAL TALES

XXXIX. THE FLOWER-ELVES

XL. THE SPIRIT OF THE WU-LIAN MOUNTAIN

XLI. THE KING OF THE ANTS

XLII. THE LITTLE HUNTING DOG

XLIII. THE DRAGON AFTER HIS WINTER SLEEP

XLIV. THE SPIRITS OF THE YELLOW RIVER

XLV. THE DRAGON-PRINCES

XLVI. HELP IN NEED

XLVII. THE DISOWNED PRINCESS

XLVIII. FOX-FIRE

GHOST STORIES

XLIX. THE TALKING SILVER FOXES

L. THE CONSTABLE

LI. THE DANGEROUS REWARD

LII. RETRIBUTION

LIII. THE GHOST WHO WAS FOILED

LIV. THE PUNISHMENT OF GREED

LV. THE NIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD

LVI. THE KINGDOM OF THE OGRES

LVII. THE MAIDEN WHO WAS STOLEN AWAY

LVIII. THE FLYING OGRE

LIX. BLACK ARTS

HISTORIC LEGENDS

LX. THE SORCERER OF THE WHITE LOTUS LODGE

LXI. THE THREE EVILS

LXII. HOW THREE HEROES CAME BY THEIR DEATHS BECAUSE OF TWO PEACHES

LXIII. HOW THE RIVER-GOD’S WEDDING WAS BROKEN OFF

LXIV. DSCHANG LIANG

LXV. OLD DRAGONBEARD

LXVI. HOW MOLO STOLE THE LOVELY ROSE-RED

LXVII. THE GOLDEN CANISTER

LXVIII. YANG GUI FE

LXIX. THE MONK OF THE YANGTZE-KIANG

LITERARY FAIRY TALES

LXX. THE HEARTLESS HUSBAND

LXXI. GIAUNA THE BEAUTIFUL

LXXII. THE FROG PRINCESS

LXXIII. ROSE OF EVENING

LXXIV. THE APE SUN WU KUNG

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The fairy tales and legends of olden China have in common with the “Thousand and One Nights” an oriental glow and glitter of precious stones and gold and multicolored silks, an oriental wealth of fantastic and supernatural action. And yet they strike an exotic note distinct in itself. The seventy-three stories here presented after original sources, embracing “Nursery Fairy Tales,” “Legends of the Gods,” “Tales of Saints and Magicians,” “Nature and Animal Tales,” “Ghost Stories,” “Historic Fairy Tales,” and “Literary Fairy Tales,” probably represent the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers. There is no child who will not enjoy their novel color, their fantastic beauty, their infinite variety of subject. Yet, like the “Arabian Nights,” they will amply repay the attention of the older reader as well. Some are exquisitely poetic, such as “The Flower-Elves,” “The Lady of the Moon” or “The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden”; others like “How Three Heroes Came By Their Deaths Because Of Two Peaches,” carry us back dramatically and powerfully to the Chinese age of Chivalry. The summits of fantasy are scaled in the quasi-religious dramas of “The Ape Sun Wu Kung” and “Notscha,” or the weird sorceries unfolded in “The Kindly Magician.” Delightful ghost stories, with happy endings, such as “A Night on the Battlefield” and “The Ghost Who Was Foiled,” are paralleled with such idyllic love-tales as that of “Rose of Evening,” or such Lilliputian fancies as “The King of the Ants” and “The Little Hunting Dog.” It is quite safe to say that these Chinese fairy tales will give equal pleasure to the old as well as the young. They have been retold simply, with no changes in style or expression beyond such details of presentation which differences between oriental and occidental viewpoints at times compel. It is the writer’s hope that others may take as much pleasure in reading them as he did in their translation.

Fredrick H. Martens.

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The Roc again urged him to make haste: “The sun will appear in a moment,” said he, “and the sun is so hot it burns human beings up.”

“Wait just a little while longer,” said the big brother. But that very moment a red disk broke through the clouds with tremendous power. The Roc flew into the sea, stretched out both his wings, and beat the water with them in order to escape the heat. But the big brother was shrivelled up by the sun.

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