SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

fox fairy

  • The Joy of Playing with Foxes

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    My friend Bi Yi’an is a free, easy-going, optimistic and straightforward man. He is also fat and has a thick beard. He is well-known among men of letters. When his uncle, Bi Jiyou, served as a prefect, he often visited him at his villa.

  • Coin Rain

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    There was a scholar in Binzhou, Shandong Province. One day,he was reading in his studio when there was a knock at the door. He answered it and saw a white-haired old man in plain clothes. The scholar let him in and asked his name.

  • Protected: Huang Jiulang

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  • 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.

  • Scholar Dong

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    The scholar Dong, who styled himself Xiasi, lived in the western border region of Qingzhou, Shandong Province.