Folktales from Zou Ma: Chinese Cultural Heritage Town of Storytelling

Introduction

Thirty Stories from Zou Ma Town
The Earth Deities Burn the Big River at Kui Xing Pavilion
The Town Magistrate Painted a Tiger
How Did the Herb Gentian Come into Being?
Stay or Leave
Miss Yin Takes a Wife
Zhang San Feng Becomes an Immortal
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Cooks
The Legend of Ci Yun Temple
Why the Kitchen God Is Deaf
The Lu Ban Association of Phoenix-Descends Station
Why the Monkey’s Butt Is Red
Why the Dog Chases the Sheep
Day and Night
The Willow Street in Chongqing
The Wealth God of the First Day of the First Lunar Month
What’s there to Cry About when People Die?
Lord An, Please Sit Down
Magistrate Geng “Castrated” the “Bull”
Magistrate Geng Judged the Umbrella Case
Mandarin Ducks Tree
The Origins of Addressing Others as “Laozi” (Father)
The Dirty Old Man Presses the Shrimp Net
The Story of Young Li Bai
The Background Stories of the Four Great Beauties
Kongming Borrows Arrows
The Death of Li Yuanba
Little Swallow
The Farmer God Creates Crops
The Landlord and the Elder
Two Burglars

The Future of Zou Ma’s Folklore Tradition