SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Shandong Province

  • Yingning

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    Wang Zifu was a native of Luodian in Luxian County, Shandong Province. His father died when he was still a child. Being extraordinarily clever, he passed the imperial examination at the local level and became a xiucai at the age of fourteen.

  • Scholar Dong

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

  • Wang Lan

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    A man named Wang Lan, who lived in Lijing County, in Shandong Province, suddenly died.

  • The Bridegroom

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    Mei Ouchang, a juren from south of the Yangtse River, once told me of a strange case which his friend Sun from the same hometown had handled, while he was an official at Dezhou, in Shandong Province.

  • Corpse heap survival in “Wild Dogs”

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    The story “Wild Dogs” from Strange Tales from Liaozhai is set against the backdrop of a rebellion led by Yu Qi in Qixia County, Shandong Province.

  • Protected: Wild Dogs

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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • The fox-fairy marries off his daughter

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    Minister Yin, who now heads the Board of Civil Office, came originally from a poor family in Licheng County, Shandong Province. In his youth, he was noted for his daring.

  • Wang, the Sixth [Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio]

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    There was a man named Xu who lived outside the north gate of Zichuan in Shandong Province and made a living by fishing.