Chinese folktales
With 1.3 billion people, China is the most populous country in the world. The ancient Chinese civilization was one of the first states in the world.
A collection of folk tales from China has more than 100 tales.
The fairy tales reflect the character of the people well: on them generations of children were brought up, growing up subconsciously and building by them the life.
More than 100 chinese folk tales.
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How Greed for a Trifling Thing Led a Man to Lose a Great One
Category: Chinese folktales
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There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
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