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Helpless, the commandant and the magistrates selected daughters of bondmaids or criminals and kept them until the appointed dates. One day in the eighth month of every year, they would deliver a girl to the mouth of the monster’s cave, and the serpent would come out and swallow the victim.
21 cze 2018 · Long ago, in China, there was a fearsome serpent who lived in the Yung Mountains. His head was as big as a large rice barrel and his body was fearsomely long. When the magistrates tried to travel over the mountain for business, they ran the risk of being eaten.
Chi Li Slays The Serpent Summary. The Chinese myth of Chi Li Slays the Serpent has an important background and represents the Chinese culture in many ways. It highlights the idea that daughters are rather unimportant to the family.
One day, Li Ji (or Li Chi), the youngest daughter of Li Dan (or Li Tan), offers herself to be the sacrifice, since her mother and father have five other daughters and no son. She goes to the mountains to face the serpent, armed with a sword and accompanied by a snake-biting dog.
31 lip 2021 · Using the flint, Li Chi made a fire to cook the food she brought. Soon delicious smells wafted back into the cave, enticing the hungry serpent. It slithered out from the cave, rearing its ugly head in search of the food.
CHINA Lí Chi Stays the Serpent Here is a maiden who will not be sacrificed! ONCE, LONG AGO, in a cleft in the northwest portion of great Yung Mountains, there lived a giant serpent. He was many lis long, and to span his body would have taken ren hands.
17 lut 2017 · In the book, World Mythology the author, Rosenberg shares a short story called “Chi Li Slays the Serpent.”. In this story, we learn that the people in a place called Chiang Lo County have always been afraid of the monstrous Yung serpent.
