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- Herausgeber: Pushkin Children's Books
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
To coincide with a major exhibition: the best shoe stories from around the world. Red shoes, golden slippers, seven-league boots... Just step into the shoes of princes and princesses, ogres and orphans, cats and rabbits, and discover a fascinating fairy-tale world of footwear. Did you know that long ago Cinderella lived in China? That dogs in America wear boots? And that a small pair of shoes in France can fall in love? With original illustrations by Lucie Arnoux, this is a timeless and captivating collection of fairy tales and folktales, whose footprints have lasted through the generations, over the centuries, and all around the world.
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Contents
The Story of Yexian
DUAN CHENGSHI
THERE IS A STORY AMONG SOUTHERNERS THAT before the Qin and the Han there was a cave master named Wu. The local people called the place Wu cave. Wu took two wives but one wife died, leaving a daughter named Yexian. When she was young, she was intelligent and skilled at metalworking. Her father loved her, but before a year had passed, her father also died. She was treated badly by her stepmother, who often ordered her to collect firewood from dangerous places and to draw water from the deeps.
Once Yexian caught a fish about two inches long with red fins and golden eyes. She placed it in a basin of water. She changed the basin several times, and it grew bigger by the day. Finally it got so big she couldn’t find a container for it, and she threw it into the pond in the back. When the girl had leftover food, she would sink it into the water to feed the fish. Whenever the girl came to the pond, the fish would stick its head out and pillow it on the bank, but it wouldn’t do this when other people came. Her stepmother knew about this, but whenever she watched for it, it never showed itself. So she tricked Yexian, saying, “You have certainly worked hard. I’m going to give you some new clothes.” The girl changed out of her old clothes. Later the stepmother sent her to fetch water from another spring. Reckoning that the spring was several hundred li away, the stepmother slowly dressed in the girl’s old clothes, put a long knife in her sleeve, and went to the pond to call the fish. The fish immediately stuck out its head, whereupon she chopped it off and killed the fish. It had already grown to be more than ten feet long. She served its meat, and the taste was twice as good as ordinary fish. Then she hid the bones under the dung heap.
