SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

scholar

  • Yu De

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    Yin Tunan of Wuchang had a second house, just outside his own residence. The house had been rented by a scholar. Yin had not bothered to see the house or his tenet for the last six months.

  • 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 wine companion and transcendent friendship

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    Strange Tales from Liaozhai: The Wine Companion (Drinking Pal) recounts the bond between impoverished scholar Che and a fox spirit, celebrating friendship, trust, and wisdom across supernatural boundaries.

  • Nie Xiaoqian

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    Ning Caichen, a native of Zhejiang Province, was noted for his galantry, integrity and upright character. He often used to say, “In my whole life, I’ve only had my wife and never another woman.”

  • Unveiling deception and human frailty in “The Painted Skin”

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    Strange Tales from Liaozhai: The Painted Skin is among the most renowned tales in Chinese literature.

  • Protected: Painted Skin

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  • Fox-Girl Qingfeng

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    The Gengs of Taiyuan were an aristocratic family of long standing who lived in an enormous manor. Eventually their fortunes declined and half of the rambling complex of storied buildings and living quarters was left desolate.

  • The Taoist Priest of Laoshan

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    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…

  • 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.