About the book: 1993 / This collection will help the reader penetrate the Great Wall of China and plunge into the elements of the most ancient and, perhaps, the most mysterious civilization. It includes myths and fairy tales from China. Ancient Chinese mythology has not reached us in the same harmonious form as ancient Greek or ancient Egyptian, but nevertheless it gives an idea of ​​the beliefs and cults in Ancient China. And fairy tales will open up to the reader a whole world of wonderful transformations - they, these amazing transformations, both in folk fairy tales, and in literary tales of the brilliant Tang era (VII-X centuries), and in the works of the Chinese Boccaccio - Pu Songling (XVII-XVIII centuries.).