chastity

  • Maternal devotion and Daoist transcendence in “Fairy Su”

    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

    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.