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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ten Suns: A Chinese Legenddi Eric A. Kimmel
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Right off the back , the illustrations were breathtaking and in an ornate, oriental style that really seemed to jump off the page.The attention to detail used to describe the settings and the illustrations depicting the different parts of the Chinese Legend of the Ten Suns were breathtaking. The story focuses on the disobedience of the ten suns as they recklessly crossed the sky together, burning the earth. When their father saw this and told them to come back to the heavens and they continued to disobey him, he had no choice but to have them STOPPED, my means of turning them into crows. The story focuses heavily on the consequences of the disobedience by the children towards their parents, a concept that can run deep in various Asian cultures. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
When the ten sons of Di Jun walk across the sky together causing the earth to burn from the blazing heat, their father looks for a way to stop the destruction. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I enjoyed Ten Suns: A Chinese Legend quite a bit, finding Eric A. Kimmel's retelling engaging and YongSheng Xuan's illustrations lovely. The story was already familiar to me, although I am better acquainted with the version in which the archer Hu Yi (sometimes Hou Yi) is rewarded with immortality (or a potion for immortality) as a result of his actions in shooting the suns. In this version, Hou Yi's wife, Chang-E, consumes the potion instead, becoming the lady in the moon. This story is central to the folklore associated with the Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. By contrast, Hu Yi is already immortal in this telling, and the story concludes with the shooting down of the suns, containing no reference to Chang-E and what happened afterward. I really enjoyed seeing another side to the story of Hou Yi and Chang-E, one which explains why the suns were all proceeding across the sky in the first place. The illustrations here, as mentioned, were quite beautiful. Recommended to young folklore enthusiasts, and to readers interested in traditional Chinese tales. ( )