Chinese Fairy Tales: Reading Diary A

Twin Dragons, Luck

• To choose a husband, the child of ill luck threw a ball of red silk.
• She basically chose the beggar and royally pissed her father off
• He was gone for 18 years?  Wayyyyy too long.  At least she had the mother to help her.
• Her death seemed totally pointless.
• The dad wants to leave his daughters to the wolves for eating his eggs?  Harsh
• What on earth was the moral of that story?
• Is the tale of the panther supposed to be like little red riding hood?
• A lot of these remind me of tales that I know
• The dog and cat fight because of the ring, but what about the mouse?
• Interesting that there were originally supposed to be 10 suns.
• Mothers seem particularly important
• There is more than one tale about the reason for having only one sun?
• The cassia tree is more beautiful than the moon
• I wonder what the connection between horses and silkworms is
• What is the importance of white horses?
• The farmer does not seem too generous
• Though the farmer was not willing to share one pear, the bonze was willing to share all of his pears.
• Why did he cut down the tree?  That seems like a lot of work for a tree that he just grew
• Tiny knights.  Very interesting
• The ants were rude to the scholar and the scholar smoked them out.  Nice