{"product_id":"2940014670685","title":"Traditional Chinese ghost stories in English: Some Chinese Ghosts - The Soul Of The Great Bell, The Story Of Ming-Y, The Legend Of Tchi-Niu, The Return Of Yen-Tchin-King, The Tradition Of The Tea-Plant, The Tale Of The Porcelain-God","description":"SNEAK PEAK:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with\u003cbr\u003ealmost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or\u003cbr\u003ere-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included\u003cbr\u003ewith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Some Chinese Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lafcadio Hearn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: July 11, 2005 [EBook #16261]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME CHINESE GHOSTS ***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Bethanne M. Simms, Louise Pryor and the Online\u003cbr\u003eDistributed Proofreading Team at http:\/\/www.pgdp.net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOME CHINESE GHOSTS\u003cbr\u003eBY LAFCADIO HEARN\u003cbr\u003eCopyright, 1887, by ROBERTS BROTHERS\u003cbr\u003e________________________________________\u003cbr\u003eTo my friend\u003cbr\u003eHENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL\u003cbr\u003eTHE MUSICIAN\u003cbr\u003eWHO, SPEAKING THE SPEECH OF MELODY UNTO THE\u003cbr\u003eCHILDREN OF TIEN-HIA,—\u003cbr\u003eUNTO THE WANDERING TSING-JIN, WHOSE SKINS\u003cbr\u003eHAVE THE COLOR OF GOLD,—\u003cbr\u003eMOVED THEM TO MAKE STRANGE SOUNDS UPON THE\u003cbr\u003eSERPENT-BELLIED SAN-HIEN;\u003cbr\u003ePERSUADED THEM TO PLAY FOR ME UPON THE\u003cbr\u003eSHRIEKING YA-HIEN;\u003cbr\u003ePREVAILED ON THEM TO SING ME A SONG OF THEIR\u003cbr\u003eNATIVE LAND,—\u003cbr\u003eTHE SONG OF MOHLÍ-HWA,\u003cbr\u003eTHE SONG OF THE JASMINE-FLOWER\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eI think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott's \"Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad\": \"The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon.\"\u003cbr\u003eThose desirous to familiarize themselves with Chinese literature as a whole have had the way made smooth for them by the labors of linguists like Julien, Pavie, Rémusat, De Rosny, Schlegel, Legge, Hervey-Saint-Denys, Williams, Biot, Giles, Wylie, Beal, and many other Sinologists. To such great explorers, indeed, the realm of Cathayan story belongs by right of discovery and conquest; yet the humbler traveller who follows wonderingly after them into the vast and mysterious pleasure-grounds of Chinese fancy may surely be permitted to cull a few of the marvellous flowers there growing,—a self-luminoushwa-wang, a black lily, a phosphoric rose or two,—as souvenirs of his curious voyage.\u003cbr\u003eL.H.\u003cbr\u003eNew Orleans, March 15, 1886.\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e• The Soul Of The Great Bell\u003cbr\u003e• The Story Of Ming-Y\u003cbr\u003e• The Legend Of Tchi-Niu\u003cbr\u003e• The Return Of Yen-Tchin-King\u003cbr\u003e• The Tradition Of The Tea-Plant\u003cbr\u003e• The Tale Of The Porcelain-God\u003cbr\u003e• Notes\u003cbr\u003e• Glossary\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Soul of the Great Bell\u003cbr\u003eShe hath spoken, and her words still resound in his ears.\u003cbr\u003eHao-Khieou-Tchouan: c. ix.\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL\u003cbr\u003eThe water-clock marks the hour in the Ta-chung sz',—in the Tower of the Great Bell: now the mallet is lifted to smite the lips of the metal monster,—the vast lips inscribed with Buddhist texts from the sacredFa-hwa-King, from the chapters of the holy Ling-yen-King! Hear the great bell responding!—how mighty her voice, though tongueless!—KO-NGAI! All the little dragons on the high-tilted eaves of the green roofs shiver to the tips of their gilded tails under that deep wave of sound; all the porcelain gargoyles tremble on their carven perches; all the hundred little bells of the pagodas quiver with desire to speak. KO-NGAI!—all the green-and-gold tiles of the temple are vibrating; the wooden goldfish above them are writhing against the sky; the uplifted finger of Fo shakes high over the heads of the worshippers through the blue fog of incense! KO-NGAI!—What a thunder tone was that! All the lacquered goblins on the palace cornices wriggle their fire-colored tongues! And after each huge shock, how wondrous the multiple echo and the great golden moan and, at last, the sudden sibilant sobbing in the ears when the immense tone faints away in broken whispers of silver,—as though a woman should whisper, \"Hiai!\" Even so the great bell hath sounded every day for well-nigh five hundred years,—Ko-Ngai: first with stupendous clang, then with immeasurable moan of gold, then with silver murmuring of \"Hiai!\" And there is not a child in all the many-colored ways of the old Chinese city who does not know the story of the great bell,—who cannot tell you why the great bell says Ko-Ngai and Hiai!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO BE CONTINUED... 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