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A panorama of dragons, ancestral spirits, and moral wisdom from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Tibet.
Sun Wukong on a clouded peak with his staff, Chinese folklore.

The Monkey King (Sun Wukong)

December 2, 2025
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Sun Wukong, the legendary Monkey King, began his life in a wondrous and extraordinary way. On the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, where mist wound through jade-green valleys and peach blossoms fluttered like drifting snow, there stood a massive stone unlike any other. For countless ages it drank in the
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Yugong and his family digging at the base of towering mountains in an ancient Chinese tale.

Yugong Moves the Mountains

December 2, 2025
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In ancient times there lived an old man named Yugong whose home stood near two enormous mountains. These mountains rose so high that their snowy peaks disappeared into the clouds. Their rocky slopes were steep and treacherous. Most of all, they blocked the only path his family and neighbors could
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The Dragon King’s daughter offering a magical pearl to a scholar, Southern Chinese folktale.

The Dragon King’s Daughter

December 2, 2025
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In the southern coastal regions of China, where the sea glimmered like sheets of jade and fishing boats drifted gently across rolling waves, people often told stories of the Dragon King’s palace beneath the waters. They said its walls glowed with pearls, its gardens shimmered with coral, and its halls
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a clever hare tricking a roaring lion into jumping into a forest well.

The Hare and the Lion

October 15, 2025
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Long ago, deep in the green valleys and misty forests of Tibet, there lived a great lion, fierce, proud, and feared by all creatures. He was the strongest and most terrible beast in the land. Every day, he prowled through the forest, roaring with hunger and devouring any animal that
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