- The cloud dancer"s Tales
- The Gathering
- In the begining. (Pangu)
- The four Dragons
- The Jade Emperor
- The White Dragon and the Phoenix
- The spring festival/chinese new year
- Yeh - Shen
- The old woman and the Tiger
- liv Ch'en and yuan Chao
- Hok Lee learns a lesson
- contact me
- KU_NAN AND THE TIGER KING part 1
- Ku - Nan and the tiger king part2
- KU-NAN AND THE TIGER KING (a mongolian tale )part 3
- Why dogs hate cats
- The magic cave.
LIU CH'EN and YUAN CHAO
Many years ago in ancient china lived two cousins. Their names were Liu ch'en and Yuan
Chao. They often worked together and helped each other with thier daily chores. One day they went
to get water.They were busy carrying the buckets up the hill when they noticed the most beautiful red
and green flowers all around the spring and further along the trail.
The cousins set their buckets down and begain following the trail. They were not paying
attention to anything but the flowers.They wandered for miles climbing higher and higher into the mountains
following the flowers, they had never seen anything like them and thought they were the most beautiful things they had ever seen.
The trail ended at a large cave, far up in the mountains. In front of the cave was a huge
rock;on this rock set two faries, the faries were playing chess. At the faries feet was a white hare.
He was jumping up and down. Each time he sprang up flowers appeared everywhere, when he sprang
down the flowers faded and disapeared.
The cousins watched the faries playing chess and the white hare jumping. The faries did
not notice them until they were done with their game.when the game was over the faries seeing the cousins grew concerned,upon finding out they had been there for a few hours the faries tried to get the
cousins to stay with them. But the cousins wanted to go back to their familys. The faries gave them
each a reed wand incase they had problems and wanted to return to the cave. The wands would open the cave for them.
Liu ch'en and yuan chao returned to the spring, but everything had changed. The spring was now a creek surounded by huge ancient trees. Their buckets were no where to be found.
When they went home they couldnt find their homes. They asked two white haired men where the homes of Liu Ch'en and Yuan Chao were. The old men old them they were long gone as they were
their desendants seven generations ago they wanted to know why the young men asked about them.
The cousins were more confused than ever, how could they have seven generation of family,
all they had done was go to get water and had gotten sidetracked for a few hours and now this.
What they didn't relize was that the white hare jumping up and down was the years passing in mortal
time. What had been a few hours of fairy time was hundreds in mortal time.
The cousins tried to tell the white haired men who they were and what had happened but
they didn't belive them. They along with the towns people chased the cousins and beat them for thier
lies and disrespecting their ancestors.
The two cousins fled back to the cave.The enormouse rock covered the entrance to the
cave and they had lost their reeds.They banged and banged on the rock but no one came.In frustration
they banged their heads on the rock and died.
The ruler of the hevans took pity on the cousins and their sad fate and appointed liu ch'en
the god of good luck and and yuan chao the god of ill luck.
Chao. They often worked together and helped each other with thier daily chores. One day they went
to get water.They were busy carrying the buckets up the hill when they noticed the most beautiful red
and green flowers all around the spring and further along the trail.
The cousins set their buckets down and begain following the trail. They were not paying
attention to anything but the flowers.They wandered for miles climbing higher and higher into the mountains
following the flowers, they had never seen anything like them and thought they were the most beautiful things they had ever seen.
The trail ended at a large cave, far up in the mountains. In front of the cave was a huge
rock;on this rock set two faries, the faries were playing chess. At the faries feet was a white hare.
He was jumping up and down. Each time he sprang up flowers appeared everywhere, when he sprang
down the flowers faded and disapeared.
The cousins watched the faries playing chess and the white hare jumping. The faries did
not notice them until they were done with their game.when the game was over the faries seeing the cousins grew concerned,upon finding out they had been there for a few hours the faries tried to get the
cousins to stay with them. But the cousins wanted to go back to their familys. The faries gave them
each a reed wand incase they had problems and wanted to return to the cave. The wands would open the cave for them.
Liu ch'en and yuan chao returned to the spring, but everything had changed. The spring was now a creek surounded by huge ancient trees. Their buckets were no where to be found.
When they went home they couldnt find their homes. They asked two white haired men where the homes of Liu Ch'en and Yuan Chao were. The old men old them they were long gone as they were
their desendants seven generations ago they wanted to know why the young men asked about them.
The cousins were more confused than ever, how could they have seven generation of family,
all they had done was go to get water and had gotten sidetracked for a few hours and now this.
What they didn't relize was that the white hare jumping up and down was the years passing in mortal
time. What had been a few hours of fairy time was hundreds in mortal time.
The cousins tried to tell the white haired men who they were and what had happened but
they didn't belive them. They along with the towns people chased the cousins and beat them for thier
lies and disrespecting their ancestors.
The two cousins fled back to the cave.The enormouse rock covered the entrance to the
cave and they had lost their reeds.They banged and banged on the rock but no one came.In frustration
they banged their heads on the rock and died.
The ruler of the hevans took pity on the cousins and their sad fate and appointed liu ch'en
the god of good luck and and yuan chao the god of ill luck.