![]() ![]() She goes to the festival and enjoys herself until she needs to leave to avoid discovery by her stepmother. A spirit, however, tells her where to discover some clothes to wear to the festival. Soon the Spring Festival begins, and Ye Xian is told to stay and clean by her stepmother. Ye Xian collects the bones and is told by a spirit to place them at each foot of her bed, and she will be granted wishes if she requests them of the bones. She is soon overjoyed to find her mother reincarnated as a large fish in a nearby lake watching over her, though learning of this the stepmother has the fish captured and served to herself and her own daughter. Ye Xian (or Yeh-Shen) is the daughter of a scholar with two wives, when her mother and then her father die from a local plague, Ye Xian is forced to become a lowly servant and work for her father's other wife (Ye Xian's stepmother) and her half-sister. The story first appears during the 9th Century in Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang. Yeh-shen is a Chinese Fairy Tale known to be one of the oldest variations of "Cinderella". ![]()
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