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Chinese Fairy Tales - Herbert Allen Giles
Herbert Allen Giles
Chinese Fairy Tales
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066462420
Table of Contents
Chinese Fairy Tales — Title and ToC
Preface
The Magic Pillow
The Stone Monkey
Stealing Peaches
The Painted Skin
The Wonderful Pear-Tree
The Country of Gentlemen
Learning Magic
The Theft of a Duck
Living for Ever
Football on a Lake
The Flower Fairies
The Talking Bird
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Chinese Fairy Tales — Title and ToC
Table of Contents
CHINESE
FAIRY TALES
Table of Contents
TOLD IN ENGLISH BY
Prof. HERBERT A. GILES, CAMBRIDGE
GOWANS & GRAY, Ltd., London & Glasgow
LEROY PHILLIPS, Boston, U.S.A.
1920
Chapters(not individually listed)
Preface
The Magic Pillow
The Stone Monkey
Stealing Peaches
The Painted Skin
The Wonderful Pear-Tree
The Country of Gentlemen
Learning Magic
The Theft of a Duck
Living for Ever
Football on a Lake
The Flower Fairies
The Talking Bird
Preface
Table of Contents
This little volume of Chinese fairy tales has been written by Dr. Herbert A. Giles, Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, formerly British Consul at Ningpo, China, and for twenty-six years resident in that country. It is intended as a companion to the Japanese fairy tales published in the same series.
It is very interesting to compare the tales in the two volumes. They are equally quaint and delightful, but the national spirit of the Chinese is very different from that of the Japanese, both being reflected in the stories in a thoroughly characteristic manner.
A. L. G.
The Magic Pillow
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THE MAGIC PILLOW
One day, an old priest stopped at a wayside inn to rest, spread out his mat, and sat down with his bag. Soon afterwards, a young fellow of the neighbourhood also arrived at the inn; he was a farm-labourer and wore short clothes, not a long robe like the priest and men who read books. He took a seat near to the priest and the two were soon laughing and talking together. By and by, the young man cast a glance at his own rough dress and said with a sigh, See, what a miserable wretch I am.
You seem to me well fed and healthy enough,
replied the priest; why in the middle of our pleasant chat do you suddenly complain of being a miserable wretch?
What pleasure can I find,
retorted the young man, in this life of mine, working every day as I do from early morn to late at night? I should like to be a great general and win battles, or to be a rich man and have fine food and wine, and listen to good music, or to be a great man at court and help our Emperor and bring prosperity to my family;—that is what I call pleasure. I want to rise in the world, but here I am a poor farm-labourer; if you don't call that miserable wretchedness, what is it?
He then began to get sleepy, and while the landlord was cooking a dish of millet-porridge, the priest took a pillow out of his