SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

retribution

  • The Pupil-Bound Spirits

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    The Pupil-Bound Spirits is both a cautionary story about the dangers of lust and a fable about moral transformation. The grotesque yet whimsical image of tiny spirits chatting inside the eyes gives it a unique place in Chinese supernatural literature.

  • The Analects – Chapter 14.34

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    Someone asked, “What about repaying resentment with virtue?”The Master replied, “Then what would you use to repay virtue? Repay resentment with uprightness, and repay virtue with virtue.”

  • The hidden politics behind Sun Ce’s execution of Xu Gong [Three Kingdoms]

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    The assassination of Sun Ce, the “Little Conqueror” of Jiangdong, is often attributed to a simple act of vengeance: his killing of Xu Gong, the former Administrator of Wu Commandery, led to retaliation by Xu’s loyal retainers.

  • Li Boyan, the temporary Yama

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    A scholar named Li Boyan, from Xishui, Shandong, was a straightforward, upright and brave man. Suddenly he collapsed with some kind of acute illness.

  • The Fox Sisters and the Scholar

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    Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Fox Sisters (Fourth Sister Hu) weaves a fantastical tale of scholar Shang and his encounters with fox spirits Hu Sanjie(Third Sister Hu) and Hu Sijie(Fourth Sister Hu), exploring themes of desire, morality, and karmic justice.

  • Protected: Fourth Sister Hu

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  • Why Wukong burned down the Guanyin Temple?

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    In Journey to the West, the Guanyin Zen Monastery (also known as Guanyin Hall, Guanyin Zen Temple or Guanyin Chan Hall) is the domain of the Goddess Guanyin Bodhisattva. Sun Wukong’s fiery destruction of the monastery was both accidental and inevitable.