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Chinese Folk Tales
Tzeng-Shen Killed One Man
In Chun Chiou Age in China, Tzeng-Shen,
one of Confucius' students, lived in Fei County in
Shandong. Another man who was also
named Tzeng-Shen lived in Fei, too. One day the
man killed
someone. But some people
didn't know the truth and thought that Tzeng-Shen
did it. So, someone
went to Tzeng-
Shen's home and told his mother that her son had
killed someone. She didn't believe
it
and kept weaving because she knew her son was a
virtuous person. A little while, another man
came and repeated the news. Still, she
kept weaving. Then the third man came and told her
the same
thing. This time Tzeng-Shen's
mother started to believe what she heard and
became scared. Finally,
she threw away
the shuttle and ran away.
The story
tells us how terrible a rumor could be- maybe
those who know you well might not believe
you anymore.
A little
Chinese Story
Chinese idioms
are interesting. What impresses me most is the one
about spears and shields. When
describing someone is contradictory, we
Chinese like to say that he contradicts himself
with spears
and shields. Here comes the
story!
Once upon a time, there was a
peddler traveling around every country to sell his
spears and shields.
He was so talkative
and persuasive that he always made good
businesses. One day, he got to a small
village and started to brag about his
wares. As usual, he gathered many people by
beating a gong,
and then he said,
can poke through any thing and hurt
your hard-bitten preys right on the
spot.
convincing, he sold most of his
spears in a short time. Later he took his shields
out and played the
tricks again.
assault. No spear ever can poke through
it.
about poking your shield with your
spear!
packed his wares in a hurry and
ran away.
Since then, spears and
shields have been used to laugh at someone who is
contradicts his own
words. Next time,
when someone doesn't stick to what he says, tell
him,
yourself with spears and
shields!
The Wolf in Sheep's
Clothing
A long time ago, a
shepherd grew a group of sheep in a small village
where they lived happily and
peacefully.
One night, some yells of wolves were
heard everywhere around the village. As soon as
the shepherd
heard this, he knew wolves
were coming. The entrance to the sheepfold was
closed tightly and the
sheep dogs
watched these sheep thoroughly securely. The
protection was so severe that the wolves
couldn't catch these sheep for food.
After a few days, one of
the wolves had an idea that it could pretend to be
a sheep. On a windless
night, there was
no moonlight, it was quieter and darker than
usual. So the wolf decided to put its
idea into practice. By wearing the skin
of a sheep, it cheated the shepherd and got into
the group
easily. The wolf was so happy
that it could get the food without efforts from
now.
During the night, the
shepherd invited his friends to his birthday
party, so he came into the fold to
prepare food for dinner. It was too
dark to figure out which one was fatter.
Accidentally, the
shepherd caught up
the wolf, instead of a sheep, and killed the
pretentious wolf.
Story About The
Year
Once upon a time, there
was a big monster called
last night of
the year. On that day, people hid themselves in
the mountains because
come up to the
land and eat them.
This year, on the
last night of the year, people hid themselves in
the mountains as usual except an
old
woman. She stayed to fight
this and
wanted to help her. He pretended to be a crippled
beggar and asked her for some food. She
pitied him and gave him some boiled
dumplings. After finishing the dumplings, the
beggar asked
why people ran so fast on
the road. The old woman told him the reason. The
beggar laughed and
saw it's easy to
fight off
He asked her to bring him two
pieces of red cloth. He stuck it to the door and
burnt his bamboo
stick in front of the
house. The burning made a lot of noise. He also
asked the old woman for some
more
dumplings because they were so delicious. So she
began to chop the meat for the dumplings
in the kitchen.
The sky was becoming darker and darker,
and the yelling of the big monster was becoming
louder
and louder. The old woman was
very afraid and she choped the meat more quickly
and louder. The
big monster couldn't
endure the noise of the burning and chopping. Its
head hurt so much and he
began to seek
the source of the noise. However, when it reach
the house, it was frightened by the
red
color on the door, so it fled to the sea.
The next morning, people came back from
the mountains. When they found the old woman still
alive. They were very surprised and
asked her what happened. The old woman told them
the truth.
Everyone was very happy
because if they made boiled dumplings, burn
bamboos and stick red cloth
to the door
on the eve of the Chinese New Year, they wouldn't
need to be afraid of
Therefore, they call the day that
dumplings, set off firecrackers, and
stick
Year in order to pass the year.
Zeng Zi Would Not Lie
One day, as Zeng Zi's wife was going
out, her child began to cry , begging to go with
her.
When she came back, she
found Zeng Zi preparing to slaughter a pig for the
child's meal. She
hurried over to stop
him:
just kidding
him!
parents. If you deceive
your child with lies, you are teaching the child
to lie. One cannot educate
children
this way.
In the end, Zeng
Zi killed the pig.
Kitchen God Day
Long ago, there was a lord.
He was very fond of eating. He soon tasted all the
delicious food in his
palace. Later he
went out of the palace to look for food. He came
to a woman's house and begged
for food.
The woman gave him some sugar cakes, and he ate
them up in a short time. Then he asked
the woman to go to his palace and baked
cakes for him. The woman wouldn't listen to him.
The lord
then threatened to drag her to
the palace. The woman got mad and slapped him on
the face. The slap
sent the lord flying
to the wall behind the kitchen stove. From there
on, the lord couldn't get down.
All
that he could do was watch people eat. Afterwards,
he became the Kitchen Lord. People worried
that he might report bad things about
them to the Heavenly God, so they got an idea.
Every year on
the 23th day of the
twelfth lunar month, they will prepare some sugar
cakes and candies for the
Kitchen God,
and hope that he will only say good things of
them. We call the day
Day.
Sun-Wu Kong--the King in
the Flower Fruit Mount
Many
years ago, there was a monkey, named Sun Wu Kong.
He was a smart monkey leader in the
Flower Fruit Mount. He had 72 magic
powers and one magic stick--Gin Koo Bang.
The monkey was very happy
to be the king there. One day the King of the Gods
invited all of the
gods to a party;
however, the monkey was not invited. This made him
very angry. So he decided to
play some
tricks to the King. The Heaven was in such a mess,
so the king had to teach him a lesson.
But no God
could do anything about the monkey, until the
Buddha showed up. He kept the monkey
under a small mountain. And he would
have a Monk, Tang Shan Jang, to free him five
hundred
years later.
Time
flies by. Soon it was the time for the monkey to
be freed. The Monk then became his master
and they would go on their trip to the
West for the Buddha Books.
Though they has to face many troubles
on their way to the West, the monkey really did a
good job.
He never gave up easily. All
of their stories are seen in the Book--A Tour to
the West. It's one of the
best books in
China. And the king in the Flower Fruit Mount has
become the most famous monkey
in
Chinese history.
The Dragon Boat
Festival
The Dragon Boat
Festival is one of the most popular festivals in
Taiwan. It falls on the fifth day of
the fifth lunar month. Traditionally,
we have dragon boat races and eat Chung-tze on
that day,
which has something to do
with the festival's origins. As legend has it,
during the Fourth century
B.C., Chu
Yuan, a poet and senior government official,
committed suicide on the fifth day of the
fifth lunar month by throwing himself
into the Milo River in Hunan Province. He did so
to protest
the king's corrupt
practices, hoping that by dying he could cause the
king to come to his senses and
return
to honest and upright practices. When the people
in the nearby village saw what had
happened, they put their boats into the
water and raced to rescue him. But his body was
never found.
The villager threw rice
into the river to keep the fish from eating Chu
Yuan's body or to feed Chu
Yuan's soul.
Ever since, they have remembered this long-ago
event with the Dragon Boat Festival.
Besides, people eat Chung-Tze in honor
of the great poet, Chu Yuan. Therefore, the Dragon
Boat
Festival is also called the Poet's
Day.
Monkey Keeper
朝三暮四
Once upon a
time, in the land of Sung Dynasty there was a
monkey keeper who
loved monkeys very
much. He raised a whole swarm of them and could
understand their thoughts
as well as
feelings. These monkeys were very dear to him and
he treated them as his family. He
loved
them so much that he would even take the food from
the mouths of his own family to satisfy
them. However, as time went by, his
money was running short and he found out that he
couldn't
afford the huge amount of
money used for buying the food for monkeys.
Finally came the time
when he had to
reduce their provisions. Fearing that the monkeys
would feel upset and stop obeying
him,
he decided to trick them into accepting short
rations. One day he told the monkeys,
the chestnuts for you. You will get
three each morning and four each evening. Is that
enough for
you?
as if
displeased with his new policy.