ko-ai's

Updated: June 5, 2025

The bell was struck, and far and near was heard the deep tone of its sonorous boom. This indeed was a triumph! Here was a bell surpassing in size and sound any other that had ever been cast! To this day the bell, each time it is rung, after every boom appears to utter the word 'hsieh, and people when they hear it shudder and say, "There's poor Ko-ai's voice calling for her shoe."

E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner - Myths and Legends of China