Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, a cave owner surnamed Wu married two wives. One of his wives died young, leaving a daughter named Ye Xian. Xian Ye is clever, good at panning for gold and deeply loved by his father. But after her father died, Ye was abused by her stepmother, who often asked her to cut down trees in dangerous places or get water from deep wells. One day, Xian Ye got a two-inch goldfish with golden eyes and brought it home. Goldfish grow up day by day and have to be kept in the pond. Only when Xian Ye walks to the pool will the goldfish surface and stick its head out.
Ye Yan's stepmother cheated Ye Yan out of her clothes, put them on and walked to the pool, then killed and burned the goldfish. Xian Ye found that the goldfish was not in the pool and burst into tears. Suddenly, a fairy came from the sky to comfort Ye Yan and let her pick up the fishbone and hide it at home. Only in this way can we realize our desire to pray to it. So Xian Ye got gold, silver, jewels and fancy clothes.
On a festival, my stepmother attended a grand event, and she stayed at home to watch the fruit trees in Yuzryha. Ye Xian and other stepmother walked away, quietly followed her and put on a turquoise tulle coat and a pair of gold shoes. The stepmother's daughter recognized Ye Limit, and her stepmother became suspicious as soon as she saw Ye Limit. Afraid of being discovered by them, Xian Ye hurried home, leaving a golden shoe on the road, which was picked up by other Neanderthals. When the stepmother came home, she found Ye Lin sleeping with a tree in her arms, so she didn't pursue it again.
A caveman took gold shoes to the powerful island country "Tuohan" near the cave to sell. After the king got the golden shoes, he ordered them to be tried on left and right, but no one wore them together. So the king ordered women all over the country to try on this shoe, and found that none of them belonged to this shoe. That golden shoe is as light as a feather, and you won't make a sound if you put it on a stone. The Tudor king thought that the Neanderthal was snatched back, so he imprisoned him, but after torture, he could not know the origin of the golden shoes.
The king abandoned the golden shoes on the side of the road and sent people to search them everywhere. If he finds another golden shoe, he will arrest the family. TaBaHanwang found Xian Ye indoors and found that she could wear gold shoes. People believe that she is the owner of golden shoes. Because Ye Xian's clothes and manners were beautiful, the king married her and returned to China with Ye Xian and fishbone. Xian Ye's stepmother and half-sister were killed by flying stones. In order to mourn them, Neanderthals buried them in a stone pit and named it "Women's Pit". In the future, people will sacrifice in front of the tomb, and this place has become a place to ask for women.
After Tuoba Hanwang returned to China, Xian Ye was crowned queen. In the first year after returning to China, Tuoba Hanwang was very greedy for money and often sought treasure from fishbones. Although everyone got what they wanted, the fishbone didn't work the next year. The king buried the fish bones on the coast, covered them with pearls, and surrounded the tombs with gold and silver. Later, when Tuo's domineering king went out to crusade against the soldiers in the rebellion, he planned to use all those gold and silver jewelry as military pay, but all those gold and silver jewelry were washed away by the waves in one night.
2? Story origin
There are still different opinions about the origin of Xian Ye. Translator Yang believes that this story originated in Europe and was introduced to Asia. In his book My Translation, he pointed out that Duan learned this story from a person in Yongzhou (equivalent to Nanning, Guangxi today), so "this story was introduced from the South China Sea". Yang pointed out that the brothers grimm version of Cinderella is called "Aschenbr? Del "(usually" Aschenputtel "), Aschen is German for" ash "(ash; ; Anglo-Saxon: Asecen) means "Asan" in Sanskrit, and its pronunciation is similar, so "Xian Ye" is the transliteration of Aschen and Asan. three
However, some scholars who advocate that the story spread from Asia to Europe believe that the above statement actually shows Yang's ignorance of Middle Chinese. For example, Ding Naitong, a scholar, thinks that the pronunciation of "Xian Ye" in modern dialects in Guangxi and Guangdong is very different from that of A Xin or Asan, and even translation errors are not enough to explain the problem. He thinks the story should come from Vietnam or Vietnamese. However, there are still many opinions about the specific location of the story, including Zhuang nationality in Guangxi (Dajia and Dacang) and Sumatra in Indonesia.
Xian Ye's golden shoes are "as light as wool, and the stone is silent". Yang thinks this description is closer to the shoes made of squirrel hair (Vair) in French; However, Perot changed the word "Vair" to "Vere", which explains why Cinderella wears glass shoes in fairy tales or adapted animations.
3. Original text
According to legend, there was a cave owner Wu before the Qin and Han Dynasties in the south, and the natives called it "Wu Cave". Married two wives, one wife died, and one woman named Ye Xian, who was not very clever and was good at panning for gold, was very fond of by her father. At the end of the year, my father died and suffered from my stepmother, which often made firewood dangerous. I tasted a scale, tasted more than two inches, and the fins were golden, so I slipped into the basin of water. The days were long, easy to count and unbearable, but they were thrown into the back pool. If a woman earns more food, she should indulge in it. When a woman comes to the pool, the fish will show its head on the pillow. People don't come back when they arrive.
The mother fish knows that every time she waits for it, the fish has never seen it. Because she cheated the woman, she said, "Are you tired? I am new to you. " She easily took off her clothes and ordered her to take it to his spring and count the miles. The mother dressed her daughter with pointed sleeves and called the fish to the pool. When the fish came out first, it was killed. The fish has grown more than a foot, eating its meat tastes like a fish, hiding its bones under stagnation. After a day, the woman went to the pool, and she couldn't see any fish anymore, just crying in the wild. Suddenly, someone sent coarse clothes and fell from the sky. Comfort my daughter: "I didn't cry, my mother killed my fish!" " The bones are under the feces. You can hide the fish in your room when you come back. If you need to pray first, you should follow me "Women use their words, eat their jade, and get what they want.
On the Dongtian Festival, when the mother goes, the maid stays in court. A woman waited for her mother to go away and left, spinning a coat in her clothes and walking on gold shoes. The daughter born to her mother recognized it and said that her mother said, "This is very similar to my sister." Mom doubts it, too. The woman felt rebellious and left a shoe for the caveman. Mom is back, but I don't care if I see a woman sleeping in a tree.
Its cave is adjacent to the island, with the name of Tuoba Han, strong soldiers, dozens of islands and thousands of miles of water. Neanderthals then transported their goods to the kingdom of Tuoba Han. The Lord of the country got it and ordered him to fulfill it. If he is young enough, his performance will drop by an inch. It was a woman who let a country go, but no one said. Light as wool, silent. King Khan of Tuo means that the people in his cave are not enlightened, so they are imprisoned and plundered, but they don't know what to do. So, I left the shoe on the side of the road and I went through others to catch it. If there are women's shoes, I'll catch them. The strange thing about King Tokhan is that he searched his room and got a leaf restriction, which made him believe it. The leaves are limited by clothes, creeping in, and the color is like heaven and man. Beginning with the king, fish bones and leaves returned to China. His mother and daughter were killed by flying stones. The cavemen mourned it and buried it in a stone pit, which was called "the tomb of mourning women". The cavemen thought they worshipped it and asked women to respond. King Tuohan took the kingdom as his wife and Ye Xian as his wife.
One year, Wang was insatiable and prayed for fish bones and jewels. After more than a year, he should no longer. Wang Nai buried the fish bones on the coast. Hide it with a hundred pearls and use gold as an opportunity. If you want to levy a pawn to rebel, you must send troops to support you. One night, it was flooded by the tide.
4. Translation
Southerners say that before the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was a cave called Wu, and the locals called him Wu Dong. He married two wives, the first one died, leaving a daughter named Xian Ye, who was gentle and virtuous since childhood and could make gorgeous clothes with gold thread. Wu Dong loves her very much. A few years later (at the end of the year), Wu Dong died, too. Xian Ye was rejected by her stepmother, who often asked her to cut wood in the mountains and fetch water from deep pools.
Xian Ye once caught a fish while fetching water. It is two inches long, with red dorsal fin and golden eyes. He secretly feeds the fish from a basin. The fish grew up day by day, and the leaves were changed several times. When the basin is too big to hold, Ye Yan puts it in the pond behind the yard. Every day, she throws in some meals she has saved. After the leaf limit, the fish will swim to the shore and show their heads. When others came to the pond, the fish stopped coming out. Her stepmother noticed this, and every time she peeked at the pond, she couldn't see any fish. I lied to Ye Xian and said, "Are you tired recently? I made you a new dress. " So she hid her old clothes and sent her to fetch water from another spring, which was hundreds of miles away. The stepmother slowly put on her daughter's clothes and went to the pond to call for fish with a sharp knife hidden in her sleeve. The fish showed its head, and the stepmother took the opportunity to chop it to death. This fish has grown to more than ten feet long. The fish cooked by stepmother tastes several times stronger than ordinary fish. The stepmother hid the leftover fishbone in the cesspit. After a day, the leaves were confined to the pond, but no fish was seen. He ran to the wild and cried sadly. Suddenly, a person with loose hair and rough clothes fell from the sky and said to her, "Don't cry, your fish was hacked to death by your mother!" " The bones were thrown into the cesspit. You can take it out and hide it in the house when you go back. If you need something, just pray for it and you will get it. "Ye Yan adopted his words, and sure enough, you can get anything you want to eat and wear.
On the Dongtian Festival, the stepmother (with her own daughter) went to attend, leaving Ye alone to watch the door at home. When Ye Xian and her stepmother left, she put on clothes made of kingfisher feathers and shoes made of gold and silver silk thread. The stepmother's daughter recognized her and told her mother, "That man looks like her sister." Stepmother is also very skeptical. Ye Yan noticed and came back quickly. He lost a shoe and was picked up by a caveman. When the stepmother came back, she saw her daughter sleeping in the yard with the tree, so she no longer doubted her.
The tribe named Wu is close to the island. There is a country called Tuoba Han on the island, which is powerful and rules dozens of nearby islands, covering an area of several thousand nautical miles. Neanderthals sold them gold shoes. After TaBaHanwang got it, he asked his servants to try it on. The smallest foot put on this shoe, which is still an inch short. So he ordered women all over the country to try them on, but none of them fit. Shoes are as light as feathers, and there is no sound when stepping on stones. Tuoba Hanwang guessed that the Neanderthal got the shoes by improper means, so he was detained and tortured. Finally, he didn't know where the shoes came from. The king thought who left it by the side of the road, so he sent someone to search the house in this cave. If there are shoes worn by the same women, he will report them. Find the leaf limit, let her try it on and believe it. So Ye Xian put on jade clothes and gold shoes again, looking like a fairy girl in the sky. This just stated the fact to the king, and King Tuoba returned to China with the leaf limit and fishbone. Stepmother and her daughters were killed by flying stones, and the caveman felt sorry for them, so he dug a stone pit and buried it. This stone pit was called "women's pit".
After the king brought Xian Ye back to China, he was made the first lady. One year, the king became greedy, prayed to the fishbone and got countless jewels. After a year, if you want fishbone again, you will get nothing. The king buried the fishbone by the sea, hiding it in a hundred hugged pearls and jade, with gold as the boundary. When he conquered the rebels, the king decided to dig up jewels to support his army. As a result, the buried place was flooded overnight.