SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

hardship

  • Caigentan 90. Defying heaven’s design

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    Juan

    If Heaven has not granted me enough happiness I keep increasing my store of virtue to supplement this small portion.

  • Caigentan 5. Adversity as the path to resilience

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    Juan

    To constantly hear words that grate upon the ear and to always encounter matters that unsettle the heart—this is the whetstone for cultivating virtue.

  • The cricket and son

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    Ana

    “Cricket” is a short story from the collection Strange Tales from Liaozhai by the Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling. Through a story about a cricket, it profoundly reflects the hardships of life and social injustice endured by the lower classes in feudal society.

  • The Taoist Priest of Laoshan

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    Ana

    There used to live in the county a scholar named Wang who was the seventh child in an official’s family. Ever since he was a boy, he’d had great admiration for the miracles Taoist priests perform. When he heard there were many immortals up on Laoshan Mountain, he shouldered his book bag and off…