SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

ecological ethics

  • Mencius – Chapter 13.45

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    Ana

    Mencius puts forward graded love: cherish creatures without full benevolence, treat people kindly yet less intimately than family. True virtue starts with loving relatives, expands to caring for people, and finally extends affection to all natural things.

  • Exploitation and oppression in “The Black Beast”

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    Ana

    In Strange Tales from Liaozhai: The Black Beast, an elder named Li Jingyi recounts an incident near Shenyang: A gentleman hosting a banquet on a mountaintop witnesses a tiger carrying an object in its mouth. The tiger digs a pit, buries the object (a dead deer), and leaves. The gentleman sends men to retrieve…