R. Wilhelm 1921 Chinese Fairy Tales

mWiBMKMiS wauBiHiwyiiwiwa ^'- V^-VVMX wr^- l^. m..- >i^Ml-;^'' in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation The English fairy Book The Welsh Fairy Book The Irish Fairy Book The Scottish Fairy Book The Italian Fairy Book The Hungarian Fairy Book The Indian Fairy Book The Jewish Fairy Book The Swedish Fairy Book The Chinese Fairy Book I " llimill IMIII ll1 Nil III mil III Mill!!■ THE CHINESE FAIRY BOOK EDITED BY DR. R. WILHELM TRANSLATED AFTER ORIGINAL SOURCES BY FREDERICK H. MARTENS WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY GEORGE W. HOOD NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1921, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All Rights Reserved THE NEW YORk PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR ',ENOX AND TiLDcN rcUNDATIONS O Printed in the U. S. of America PREFACE The fairy tales and legends of olden China have in common mth the '^ Thousand and One Nights'* an oriental glow and glitter of precious stones and gold and multicolored silks, an oriental wealth of fantastic and supernatural action. And yet they strike an exotic note distinct in itself. The seventy-three stories here presented after original sources, embracing *' Nursery Fairy Tales," ''Legends of the Gods," "Tales of Saints and Magicians," ''Nature and Animal Tales," "Ghost Stories," "Historic Fairy Tales," and "Literary Fairy Tales," probably represent the most comprehensive and varied collection of …