Reading Notes: Chinese Fairy Tales



  • Why Dog and Cat are Enemies
    • Ring of gold and luck
    • Dog and Cat want to help get owners luck back
    • Dog tells Cat it must get a mouse
    • Dog helps get across river
    • Cat reached home before he did
    • Cat took all credit for getting ring back so dog got punished
  • The Lady of the Moon
    • Hou = great archer
    • Sneaky wife ate some of the herb of immortality
      • Floated up to the clouds
    • Tree will overshadow the moon if it is not cut down every thousand years
    • She smiled and said to the emperor: “You are a prince of the mundane world of dust. Great is your fortune since you have been able to find your way here!”
    • Jasper rabbit ground up herbs
    • Dark half of the moon
    • Pear-tree garden
  • The Girl with the Horse's Head or the Silkworm Goddes
    • Promised the horse marriage to find her father
    • Horse is a white stallion
    • Killed with a crossbow then skin hung to dry
    • Horse reincarnated from skin
    • Tried to cacoon the girl
    • How silkworm season came about

The Girl was hung in a cocoon of webbed silkworm. 

Bibliography: 

Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

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