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The Scarecrow (Chinese: 稻草人; pinyin: Dàocǎorén) is a 1923 collection of short fairy tales for children written by Ye Shengtao.Written between 1921 and 1922, the stories contained therein reflect the changing treatment of children in China.
"Ye Xian" (traditional Chinese: 葉 限; simplified Chinese: 叶 限; pinyin: Yè Xiàn; Wade–Giles: Yeh Hsien; [jê ɕjɛ̂n]) is a Chinese fairy tale that is similar to the European Cinderella story, the Malay-Indonesian Bawang Putih Bawang Merah tale, [1] and stories from other ethnic groups including the Tibetans and the Zhuang. [2]
The Magic Lotus Lantern is a Chinese fairy tale from the Tang dynasty (618–907). Story. Goddess Sanshengmu falls in love with a mortal man, Liu Yangcheng.
The story is a Chinese version of the popular children's fable "Little Red Riding Hood" as retold by Young.Contrary to the original fable, in which there is only one child (Little Red Riding Hood) who interacts with the nemesis of the story (the wolf), Lon Po Po (Mandarin for "wolf [maternal] grandmother") has three children, and the story is told from their perspective.
Pages in category "Chinese fairy tales" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beauty and Pock Face; C.
"The Boy Who Wanted the Impossible" in Chinese Fables and Folk Stories. Mary Hayes Davis was working as a journalist for a major Chicago newspaper, when she met Reverend Chow Leung of the Central Baptist Chinese Mission. [8] Chow Leung also taught a Chinese language school for children, which he founded soon after arriving in Chicago in 1900. [9]
"The Pretty Little Calf" is a Chinese fairy tale collected by Wolfram Eberhard in "Folktales of China". [1] [2] It is related to the theme of the calumniated wife and to the tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, in that a woman gives birth to children of wondrous aspect, but jealous relatives conspire to separate them.
Beauty and Pock Face is a Chinese fairy tale collected by Wolfram Eberhard in Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. [1]It is classified as Cinderella, Aarne-Thompson type 510A, the persecuted heroine; others of this type include The Sharp Grey Sheep; The Golden Slipper; The Story of Tam and Cam; Rushen Coatie; The Wonderful Birch; Fair, Brown and Trembling and Katie Woodencloak. [2]