Extra Reading Diary: Chinese Fairy Tales

Unit: Chinese Fairy Tales

READING B:

The Little Hunting Dog

• there was a scholar who hated being around people, so lived in a Buddhist temple
• awww this story was so cute yet so sad
• so the little tiny knights left behind a tiny dog that kept gnats from annoying the scholar at night
• then one day while the scholar was taking nap, he accidentally squished it to death. 

Fox-Fire

• a man caught a fox preparing the elixir of life using fox fire
• the man caught the ball and swallowed it, giving himself the ability to connect to the spirit world
• he used his ability to help people and he gained many gifts from it
• thirty years later, the fox came and took back its ball

The Talking Silver Foxes

• the silver foxes had the form of a normal fox, except it was yellow/red/white colored and could talk
• there was a fox that liked to toy with wanderers and one day, a man managed to whip the fox
• the fox spirit ended up possessing a woman and said the only person who it feared was the man who had the ox-tail whip
• so the villagers went and got the man and he killed it

Retribution

• there was a young boy named Ma whose father accidentally killed another man 
• once the young boy grew up, he saw the spirit of the dead man coming back and became born into a wealthy family 
• when the little boy grew up, he threw some rocks at some birds and accidentally struck Ma
• this story was about how karma will always get you in the end

The Night on the Battlefield

• this story was about a merchant who came across a small in late at night
• it turns out the inn was full of dead spirits

The Maiden Who Was Stolen Away

• an ogre who was masquerading as a young scholar captured a young maiden and placed her at the top of a pagoda
• she couldn't escape
• however, she saw a wanderer who happened to be her neighbor and caught his attention
• he couldn't tell who she was, but he was suspicious she was his neighbor's child
• so he went to the family and the youngest brother managed to save his sister by killing the ogre

The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge

• there was a great sorcerer who was quite cruel to his pupils
• he had them do various mundane tasks that were related to his journey
• when the families of the pupils inquired about them, they found out that the sorcerer kept them there
• so the father of one boy asked the city official to capture the sorcerer and put him and his family into jail 
• however, the people how were transporting the sorcerer got tricked and the sorcerer got away

The Three Evils

• there was a young man named Dschou Tschu who was strong yet was a savage of sorts
• the people called him one of the three evils 
• a new mandarin came to town and told him about him being one of the three evils
• D.T. went and killed the other two evils
• then he offered himself as a soldier and killed himself in battle 

Yang Gui Fe

• Yang Gui Fe was the beautiful wife of the emperor, Ming Huang. 
• the emperor loved her so much that he did whatever she said
• she wanted to bring in her cousin, who brought many troubles to the monarchy
• soon the emperor was cast out and the soldiers wanted Yang Gui Fe and her cousin killed
• the emperor had no choice and had the two killed
• then he heard of a man who was able to speak to dead people
• the man went to look for YGF's spirit and found her as a blessed fairy
• YGF then gave him her half of the ring that matched the emperors and promised to see the emperor soon

Yang Gui Fei

Source: UN-Textbook.