On the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar Chinese celebrate a festival called the Double Seventh Festival, the Qixi Day or nowadays mostly refered to as the Chinese Valentine’s Day. In order to celebrate Chinese Valentine’s Day and furthermore to console lovers from all around the world that are separated…
Category: Asia
A Ghostly Wife (Folk-Tales of Bengal, 1912) by Rev. Lal Behari Day
Once on a time there lived a Brahman who had married a wife, and who lived in the same house with his mother. Near his house was a tank, on the embankment of which stood a tree, on the boughs of which lived a ghost of the kind called Sankchinni. One night the Brahman’s wife had…
The Man who wished to be Perfect (Folk-Tales of Bengal, 1912) by Rev. Lal Behari Day
Once on a time a religious mendicant came to a king who had no issue, and said to him, “As you are anxious to have a son, I can give to the queen a drug, by swallowing which she will give birth to twin sons; but I will give the medicine on this condition, that…
Kisa Gotami
Kisa Gotami was the wife of a wealthy man of Savatthi. Her story is one of the more famous ones in Buddhism. After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate and asked if anyone could help her. Her sorrow was so great that many thought she had lost her mind. An old man told…
THE GOLDEN BEETLE OR WHY THE DOG HATES THE CAT
What we shall eat to-morrow, I haven’t the slightest idea!” said Widow Wang to her eldest son, as he started out one morning in search of work. “Oh, the gods will provide. I’ll find a few coppers somewhere,” replied the boy, trying to speak cheerfully, although in his heart he also had not the slightest…
LU-SAN, DAUGHTER OF HEAVEN (A CHINESE WONDER BOOK) BY NORMAN HINSDALE PITMAN
Lu-san went to bed without any supper, but her little heart was hungry for something more than food. She nestled up close beside her sleeping brothers, but even in their slumber they seemed to deny her that love which she craved. The gentle lapping of the water against the sides of the houseboat, music which…