APPENDIX 



I. NOTES ON THE CONNECTIONS OF THE SONGS AND STORIES OF 

 THE CH'UAN MIAO WITH CHINESE FOLKTALES 



BY WOLFRAM EBERHARD ^ 



The page numbers indicate the pages in this book on which the stories referred to may be found, and 

 the numbers following are the numbers of the songs, stories, and folktales as used in this book, and also 

 in the unclassified list m the author's collection. 



Page No. 

 11 293 In China, the sun is regarded as male, the moon as female (see Tun-huang 

 to-so, Yen-tse £u); in South Chinese and native folklore the sun is 

 female. (W, Eberhard, Typen chinesischer Volksmarchen, Nos. 67 

 and 68.) 



11 314 Chinese early mythology also mentions "the ropes of heaven," but details 



are not known. (Cf. Huai-nan-tse, T'ien-wen-hsiin; Chang Heng, H si- 

 chin g-ju.) 



12 349 "Kirin" corresponds to the Chinese mythological animal, the "Ch'i-lin." 



(Cf. }. J. M. de Groot, Religious System of the Chinese, vol. 2, p. 822£F.) 

 14 208 Middle part is related to type No. 7 of the Typen chinesischer Volks- 

 marchen; tales about a former connection between heaven and earth are 

 common in South China and Indo-China. (Cf. A. Kiihn, Berichte iiber 

 den Weltanfang bei den Indochinesen, Leipzig, 1935.) 



16 551 There are very few tales about cats in China. The cat seems to have been 



introduced into China via India. (E. Erkes, in T'oung Pao, vol. 37, 

 P;192.) 



17 350 A similar story occurs as an episode in the Chinese novel, Hsi-yo-chi (The 



Journey to the West). 

 17 441 Similar stories about stones are typical for South China. (Cf. W. Eber- 

 hard, Lokalkulturen im alten China, vol. 1, p. 374f., and vol. 2, p. 183, 

 Peking, 1942.) 



20 4 Cf. the "Wu-man" (i.e., "black barbarians") of Chinese tradition. 



(W. Eberhard, Kultur und Siedlung der Randvolker Chinas, p. 364, 

 Leiden, 1942.) 



21 40 Similar "sociological theories" are well known from China. (Cf. MS Ti, 



ch. 11, Forke transl., pp. 214-217, and ch. 12, Forke, p. 219.) 



24 58 The Chinese also have a ceremony of "Eating New Grain." (See Chung- 



hua ch'i4.an-\uo jeng-su-chih, pt. 2, ch. 5, pp. 27 and 30; ch. 6, p. 13; 

 ch. 8, p. 18.) 



25 118 On the history of coal in China, see K. A. Wittfogel, History of Chinese 



Society, Liao, p. 155, note, Philadelphia, 1949. 



27 752 Cf. W. Eberhard, "Einige Stammessagen nichtchinesischer Stamme in 



den Han-Annalen," in Zeitschr. f. Ethnol., vol. 63, p. 48. 



28 681 Refers clearly to popular Chinese history books. 



^ According to his Motif -Index in Typen chinesischer Volksmarchen. (See bibliography, Eberhard, 

 1937a.) 



293 



