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Chang’e and Hou Yi: The Lady of the Moon
Chang’e and Hou Yi are two popular characters from Chinese legends, with him as the famed archer and her as the Lady of the Moon. Read about their love story and all the variations of the tale.
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Beauty and Pockface: Skin Deep
Cinderella is unconquerable when accounting for the number of retellings, adaptations, variants and popularity. Most of these adaptations focus on the Charles Perrault version of Cinderella (The Little Glass Slipper) when there are many other variants to choose from! One of these variants called “Yeh-Hsien” is the earliest recorded Cinderella tale, written in c.850 C.E by the poet Duan Chengshi. You can read that story here. Instead of Ye-Hsien, we are exploring the tale of Beauty and Pockface. “San-ko yuan-wang” or Three Wishes, was recorded in 1933 by Lin Lan. This Cinderella story has similar tropes and plot points to Yeh-Hsien,…
Tales from the Enchanted Forest 