{"id":6588,"date":"2019-11-19T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/yeh-shen-a-cinderella-story\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:33:07","slug":"yeh-shen-a-cinderella-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/yeh-shen-a-cinderella-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeh-Shen, a Cinderella Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>During the time of the Qin and Han dynasties, a cave  chief named Wu married two wives and each gave birth to baby girls.  Before long Chief Wu and one wife died leaving one baby, Yeh-Shen, to be  reared by her stepmother.<\/p>\n<p>The stepmother didn&#8217;t like Yeh-Shen for she was more beautiful and  kinder than her own daughter so she treated her poorly. Yeh-Shen was  given the worse jobs and the o<em><\/em>nly friend she had was a beautiful fish  with big golden eyes. Each day the fish came out of the water o<em><\/em>nto the  bank to be fed by Yeh-Shen. Now Yen-Shen had little food for herself but  she was willing to share with the fish.<\/p>\n<p>Her stepmother hearing a<em><\/em>bout the fish disguised herself as Yen-Shen  and enticed the fish from the water. She stabbed it with a dagger, and  cooked the fish for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Yeh-Shen was distraught when she learned of the fish&#8217;s death. As she  sat crying she heard a voice and looked up to see a wise old man wearing  the coarsest of clothes and with hair hanging down over his shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>He told her that the bo<em><\/em>nes of the fish were filled with a powerful  spirit, and that when she was in serious need she was to kneel before  the bo<em><\/em>nes and tell them of her heart&#8217;s desires. She was warned not to  waste their gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Yeh-Shen retrieved the bo<em><\/em>nes from the trash heap and hid them in a  safe place. Time passed and the spring festival was nearing. This was a  time when the young people gathered in the village to meet one another  and to find husbands and wives.<\/p>\n<p>Yen-Shen lo<em><\/em>nged to go to the festival but her stepmother wouldn&#8217;t  allow it because she feared that someone would pick Yeh-Shen rather than  her own daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The stepmother and the daughter left for the festival leaving  Yeh-Shen behind. Yeh-Shen wanting desperately to go asked the bo<em><\/em>nes for  clothes to wear to the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly she was wearing a beautiful gown of azure blue with a cloak  of kingfisher feathers draped around her shoulders. On her feet were  beautiful slippers. They were woven of golden threads in a pattern of a  scaled fish and the soles were made of solid gold. When she walked she  felt lighter than air. She was warned not to lose the slippers.<\/p>\n<p>Yeh-Shen arrived at the festival and soon all were looking her way.  The daughter and step-mother moved closer to her for they seemed to  recognize this beautiful person. Seeing that she would be found out,  Yeh-Shen dashed out of the village leaving behind one of the golden  slippers. When she arrived home she was dressed again in her rags. She  spoke again to the bones, but they were now silent. Saddened she put the  one golden slipper in her bedstraw.<\/p>\n<p>After a time a merchant found the lost slipper, and seeing the value  in the golden slipper sold it to a merchant who gave it to the king of  the island kingdom of T&#8217;o Han.<\/p>\n<p>Now the king wanted to find the owner of this tiny beautiful slipper.  He sent his people to search the kingdom but no one&rsquo;s foot would fit in  the tiny golden slipper. He had the slipper placed on display in a  pavilion on the side of the road wher the slipper had been found with  an announcement that the shoe was to be returned to the owner. The  king&#8217;s men waited out of site. All the women came to try on the shoe.<\/p>\n<p>One dark night Yeh-Shen slipped quietly across the pavilion, took the  tiny golden slipper and turned to leave, but the king&#8217;s men rushed out  and arrested her. She was taken to the king who was furious for he  couldn&#8217;t believe that any one in rags could possibly own a golden  slipper.<\/p>\n<p>As he looked closer at her face he was struck by her beauty and he  noticed she had the tiniest feet. The king and his men returned home  with her wher she produced the other slipper. As she slipped on the two  slippers her rags turned into the beautiful gown and cloak she had worn  to the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The king realized that she was the one for him. They married and  lived happily ever after. However, the stepmother and daughter were  never allowed to visit Yeh-Shen and were forced to co<em><\/em>ntinue to live in  their cave until the day they were crushed to death in a shower of  flying stones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3108442863\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the time of the Qin and Han dynasties, a cave  chief named Wu married two wives and each gave birth to baby girls.  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