📜 Legends of China
＋ File legend5 legends and folk tales from China, mapped to where they were born and retold one by one.
The story of Meng Jiangnü is traditionally set during the building of the Great Wall under the Qin, in the third century BCE. Meng Jiangnü had only...
Every account of Chinese New Year tells you why the doors are red and the firecrackers loud: a monster called Nian came down once a year to eat the...
The story everyone tells about Chang'e is younger than it looks. In the oldest version we can read — Qin bamboo slips lifted from a tomb at Wangjia...
For most of its recorded life this was not a love story at all. The oldest line that puts the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl together is a Qin wedding...
The tale everyone tells about West Lake is much younger than it sounds, and it used to be a horror story. In the earliest Hangzhou version, printed...