SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

  • Protected: Huang Jiulang

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  • Justice in the underworld is far more impartial

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    “Li Boyan” of Strange Tales from Liaozhai, tells of Li Boyan, an upright scholar from Yishui, Shandong. After suddenly falling ill, he informs his family he is summoned to the underworld as Yama (King of Hell) pro tempore. He instructs them not to bury him, awaiting his return. That day, Li dies.

  • Li Boyan, the temporary Yama

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    A scholar named Li Boyan, from Xishui, Shandong, was a straightforward, upright and brave man. Suddenly he collapsed with some kind of acute illness.

  • Maternal devotion and Daoist transcendence in “Fairy Su”

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    In Strange Tales from Liaozhai: Su Xian(Su Immortal or Fairy Su), a woman surnamed Su from Chenzhou, Hunan, washes clothes by a river when she sees mystical green moss coils around the huge stone she is standing on. She later discovers she is pregnant.

  • Fairy Su

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    A girl named Su, in Chenzhou, Hunan, was washing clothes one day by squatting on a huge rock in the river. Some lovely green water plants drifted over and circled the rock three times, arousing Su’s curiosity. After that she found herself pregnant.

  • Bridging Worlds in “The Fox Scholar”

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    In Strange Tales from Liaozhai: The Fox Scholar (The Fox-teacher), a wealthy Hebei family hires a scholar named Hu to tutor their children.