Reading Diary A: Chinese FairyTale Unit

I really enjoyed reading the first half of the Chinese FairyTale Unit. All of the stories were very good but one of my favorites would be The Lady of the Moon. The title intrigued me to read the passage fully. It is unique because the story is told in a descriptive manor with less dialogue so it creates nice imagery for the reader. It talks about an emperor who shot the moons down and then left one up. For his hard work, he received a potion for immortality. But his wife took the concoction and got sent up to the moon. Years later, the emperor went up to the moon and found the wife. Within the story, it described in great detail what the castle on the moon looked like which was really nice because I imagined it beautiful. Another good story I read was The Cave of the Beast, which was about a father who had seven children and found seven wild duck eggs when he was out in the woods. He wanted to save the eggs for himself and his wife. But when the wife was cooking them two of the girls came up to her during separate times to ask what she was making. She then gave them an egg, which upset the father. So the father tried to get his daughters to go with him into the woods so he could leave them there because he was so angry.  But when he asked only two of the daughters fell for the trick and then drove out with him to then get abandoned in the forest. Once the girls realized they were left behind, they went into a cove and slept on gold beds. The fox and wolf come into the den, their den, and decided to not sleep in their beds but in the kettles since they were warm. When the girls woke up they were frightened so they covered the top of the kettles and turned on the heat, killing the fox and wolf. The father missed his daughters a lot so he came back to find them in the cave with all this gold so he took them home and lived happily ever after.

Chang'e Flying to the Moon (Ren Shuai Ying) by Ren Shuai Ying (1954)