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Jade Guanyin. Novellas and Tales

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The Song Dynasty occupies a special place in the history and culture of China. The populous cities differed favorably from the settlements of the preceding Tang Dynasty, offering ample opportunities for trade and crafts, book printing and entertainment. The imperial court and highly educated officials treated the fine arts, music and calligraphy with great respect, and singers, buffoons and magicians performed in the streets and squares. But storytellers were especially loved by the townspeople. Stories about fatal beauties and immortal celestials, mysterious events and magical creatures, heroes and robbers have survived the centuries. "Listening to them, we are sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, sometimes angrily grab our swords; sometimes we want to donate money to a good cause, and sometimes we are overcome by the desire to wring the neck of some scoundrel. The timid become bold, the immoral become virtuous, the stingy become generous." These enthusiastic words of Feng Menglong, a 17th-century writer and compiler of a large collection of Song and Ming dynasty stories, fully reflect the power of these works on the reader and the admiration for the skill of the writers.
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