Chinese Ghost Stories. Lafcadio Hearn

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      Chinese ghost stories : curious tales of the supernatural / by Lafcadio Hearn ; foreword by Victoria Cass. – 1st ed.

      p. cm.

      ISBN: 978-1-4629-0016-9 (ebook)

      1. Tales–China. 2. Supernatural--Folklore. 3. Ghost stories, Chinese. I. Title.

      GR335.H39 2011

      398.20951--dc22

      2011002216

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      Contents

       Preface

       Foreword

       The Soul of the Great Bell

       The Story of Ming Yi

       The Legend of Zhi Nü

       The Return of Yan Zhenjing.

       The Tradition of the Tea Plant

       The Tale of the Porcelain God

       Notes

       Glossary

      To my friend

      Henry Edward Krehbiel

      THE MUSICIAN

      WHO, SPEAKING THE SPEECH OF MELODY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF TIAN XIA—

      UNTO THE WANDERING QING REN, WHOSE SKINS HAVE THE COLOR OF GOLD—

      MOVED THEM TO MAKE STRANGE SOUND UPON THE SERPENT-BELLIED SAN XIAN;

      PERSUADED THEM TO PLAY FOR ME UPON THE SHRIEKING YA XIAN;

      PREVAILED ON THEM TO SING ME A SONG OF THEIR NATIVE LAND—

      THE SONG OF MOLI HUA

      THE SONG OF THE JASMINE-FLOWER

      Preface

      I THINK that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott’s “Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad”: “The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon.”

      Those desirous to familiarize themselves with Chinese literature as a whole have had the way made smooth for them by the labors of linguists like Julien, Pavie, Rémusat, De Rosny, Schlegel, Legge, Hervey-Saint-Denys, Williams, Biot, Giles, Wylie, Beal, and many other Sinologists. To such great explorers, indeed, the realm of Cathayan story belongs by right of discovery and conquest; yet the humbler traveler who follows wonderingly after them into the vast and mysterious pleasure-grounds of Chinese fancy may surely be permitted to cull a few of the marvelous flowers there growing—a self-luminous hua wang, a black lily, a phosphoric rose or two—as souvenirs of his curious voyage.

      L. СКАЧАТЬ