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Updated: May 26, 2025
The Chinese work itself dates back to the thirteenth century; but as it forms only a collection of the most popular tales of that epoch, many of the stories selected by the Chinese editor may have had a much more ancient origin. There are forty tales in the Kin-Kou-Ki-Koan. "The Legend of Tchi-Niu." Tong-yong, who lived under the Han dynasty, was reduced to a state of extreme poverty.
With splendid majesty the East threw open high gates of gold for the coming of the sun; and, illuminated by the glory of his coming, the vapors of morning wrought themselves into marvellous shapes of shifting color, into forms weirdly beautiful as the silken dreams woven in the loom of Tchi-Niu. The Return of Yen-Tchin-King
Never could he forget Sië-Thao; and yet it is said that he never spoke of her, not even when his children begged him to tell them the story of two beautiful objects that always lay upon his writing-table: a lion of yellow jade, and a brush-case of carven agate. The Legend of Tchi-Niu Khiû tchî yîng-yîng. Toû tchî hoûng-hoûng.
Having lost his father, he sold himself in order to obtain ... the wherewithal to bury him and to build him a tomb. The Master of Heaven took pity on him, and sent the Goddess Tchi-Niu to him to become his wife. She wove a piece of silk for him every day until she was able to buy his freedom, after which she gave him a son, and went back to heaven. Julien's French Translation, p. 119.
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