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The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains (Chinese: 愚公移山; pinyin: Yúgōng Yíshān) is a well-known fable from Chinese mythology about the virtues of perseverance and willpower. [1] The tale first appeared in Book 5 of the Liezi, a Daoist text of the 4th century BC, [2] and was retold in the Garden of Stories by the Confucian scholar ...
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.
United States. Chinese Fables and Folk Stories, a compilation of 37 tales, was billed as the first book of Chinese fables ever printed in English when it was published by American Book Company in 1908. [1][2] The co-authors were Mary Hayes Davis and Chow Leung. [1] Widely reprinted today and also translated into French, [3] Chinese Fables and ...
United States. ISBN. 978-0-698-11357-2. OCLC. 50015354. The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It was originally published in 1938 by Coward-McCann. The book is a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, Ten Brothers.
The Runaway Wok is a children's picture book written by Ying Chang Compestine and illustrated by Sebastia Serra. [1] Published in 2011 by Dutton Children's Books, the story follows a boy named Ming and his adventures with a magical talking wok who grants wishes. [2][3] The story portrays the rich family as evil and the poor family as heroic.
Title page of The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars from an early Ming dynasty printed edition Pages from a Chinese-English translated version of the book. Some of the stories in The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars were taken from other texts such as the Xiaozi Zhuan (孝子傳), Yiwen Leiju, Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era and In Search of the Supernatural.
Qingtong Kuihua. Bronze and Sunflower (Chinese: 青铜葵花) is a Chinese children's novel written by Cao Wenxuan and was first published in 2005. [1] The novel is set in the Cultural Revolution. It is a story of friendship between Bronze, a mute peasant boy, and Sunflower, the young daughter of an artist sent to a May Seventh Cadre School.
Legend of the White Snake. The Legend of the White Snake is a Chinese legend centered around a romance between a man named Xu Xian and a female snake spirit named Bai Suzhen. It is counted as one of China's Four Great Folktales, the others being Lady Meng Jiang, Butterfly Lovers, and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.