Shit, I'm fucking charismatic 👂

*beams old woman Ammy*

my son.. (frames from this video)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 Horned Owl Pine, and Crescent Moon, Edo Period

If anybody is interested in Chinese folklore, here you go!

Have all the old scans I have of stories from my chinese literature, folklore, and popular culture class.

This document that is basically the intro to all of it with a bunch of background info, but also contains the absolute first appearances of Mulan and Butterfly Lovers (which I was talking about in the tags of that other post before) that you can read, as well as some other excerpts on them and some other similar tales:

'Li Marries Virgin Huang with Honor'. A story that just goes through a shitload of examples of similar gender role focused tales with similar people (including Mulan and Yingtai of Butterfly Lovers):

Now. On to the fuckload of other versions of Butterfly Lovers lol

Here is my favourite (Wu Dialect Ballad), and thank fuck I decided to upload it anyway because it was completely illegible lol, but on the share site I can read it just fine. Wonders never cease:

'The Ballad Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai's Common Study As Sworn Brothers' (part 1 & 2) and the very beginning of 'The Song Of Liang Shanbo':

More excerpts from 'The Song Of Liang Shanbo' with some commentary:

Two excerpts from the performance ballad 'Yingtai's Grief' (part 1 & 2):

'The Curly Bearded Hero' (a T'ang Dynasty story):

'The Assassin', 'The Highwayman Monk', and 'The Kun-lun Servant' (T'ang Dynasty short stories), as well as a bit of interesting info on the history of knights and bandits in Chinese fiction:

'A Leopard Monk Returns To The Laity Of His Own Accord' (a Ming Dynasty stage drama):

'In A Humble Inn, Mr Li Meets A Knight-Errant' (a Ming dynasty story):

'Wu Sung And The Tiger' (written story and excerpts from Shandong clapper tale [performance poem, regional oral traditions]):

'The Plot Against The Birthday Convoy' (a Yüan Dynasty story, part of 'The Men Of The Marshes'/'Water Margin'):

4 Tales of Illustrious Women, 10 Tales of Women Knights, and some interesting background on each and on women & revenge in Chinese fiction.

In order: 'The Chaste Woman Cui°', 'The Pure Woman Hao Jie E.°', 'The Virtuous Woman Peng°', and 'The Martyred Woman Hu°'; 'The Maiden Of Yue*', 'Lady Jing The Thirteenth*', 'Aroused By A Sense Of Justice*/Cui Shensi's Wife*/The Merchant's Wife*/Zhang Daqing°' (4 versions of the same story), 'The Lady In The Carriage*', 'Hong-Xian/Red Threads*', 'Nie Yin-niang*°', 'Lady Jing Thirteen°', 'Dong Guoqing's Concubine°' (2 versions), 'The Woman With The Incense Pill' (Yüan Dynasty), and 'The Female Knight-Errant' (Qing Dynasty). [*=T'ang Dynasty; °=Song Dynasty]: