SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Liaozhai Zhiyi

  • 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.

  • Chivalry and tragic heroism in “Tian Qilang”

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    “Tian Qilang” is a classic tale from Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai Zhiyi), exploring themes of loyalty, gratitude, and social injustice through the relationship between the impoverished hunter Tian Qilang and the aristocrat Wu Chengxiu.

  • Protected: Huang Jiulang

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  • The Mural

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    Meng Longtan, a native of Jiangxi Province, and a Juren by the name of Zhu (Note: a Juren was one who pasted the imperial examination at the provincial level) were visiting the capital together.

  • Protected: Revenant Resurrection

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  • Pu Songling and Liaozhai

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    Pu Songling was a Qing Dynasty scholar, storyteller, and chronicler of the uncanny, whose life embodied the frustrations of China’s educated class.