Photo Source: Duck Eggs
Reading Source: Chinese Fairy Book by R. Wilhelm
The daughter had bad luck, and when she was to marry she threw a ball to the suitors and whoever caught it would marry her. The beggar caught the silk, and her father was furious. Her husband went to search for fortune, and she waited 18 years. Her father would not care for her, but her mother fed her secretly. The beggar became an emperor, and saw that she remained faithful, he tested her but she stayed loyal. After she became empress after 18 days she fell ill and died.
A father brought home duck eggs intending to eat them himself, but his wife offered them to the girls. They ate them and the father was angry and intended to leave them in the woods to die. He said he would take them to their grandmothers, and then left them. They went into a cave and slept there for the night. A wolf and a fox lived there and got trapped in the cave where the girls were making a fire. They lived in the cave happily. They found precious stones and the father went back to find them and lived happily with money to spare.
A man and wife had a ring of gold, the ring was wealthy and was enough for them to live on, but when they sold it they grew poor. The dog and cat also starved, so they hatched a plan to catch a mouse that could get into the place where the ring was. They found this ring and took it back to their owners. The cat could bring it back faster than the dog, and so the owners favored and fed the cat. The dog got nothing, and so they became enemies.
The Lady of the Moon: (oh my gosh I remember this story from elementary school!!!)
Once ten suns rose in the sky, they were so bright and so the emperor ordered the best archer to shoot them down. He was left an herb of immortality by the queen-mother of jasper sea. His wife ate some when he was not home and immediately floated to the clouds. She reached the moon and found a castle there, where she lived.
The King of the Ants:
A scholar went to a house that was said to be haunted, he was studying one day and thousands of tiny knights galloped in the size of flies. They started to attack him, they taunted him and he got so angry that he threw one of his books at them. They all scattered, and he followed digging up the earth where they retreated. He found an ants nest there where there were ants wiggling about.
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