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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Expansion of Races from North to South
Provisional Conclusion
Organic Environment
Marriage in Early Times
Parents and Children
General Government
Local Government
Ecclesiastical Institutions
Accessory Institutions
Funeral Rites
Laws of Intercourse
Sports and Games
Industrial Institutions
Sentiments and Moral Ideas
Superstitions
Language
CHAPTER II
The Influence of Religion
Stimulus Necessary
The Character of Chinese Myth
Sources of Chinese Myth
Tso-ch'iu Ming and Lieh Tzu
Myth and Legend
CHAPTER III
P'an Ku and Ymer
Nue Kua Shih, the Repairer of the Heavens
Early Cosmogony Dualistic
Chou Tzu's "T'ai Chi T'u"
Confucius's Agnosticism
Chuang Tzu's Super-tao
CHAPTER IV
Worship of T'ien
The Otherworld Similar to this World
The Three Religions
Confucianism
The God of Literature
Wen Ch'ang and Tzu T'ung
Image of K'uei Hsing
Mr Redcoat nods his Head
The Meat-seller's Challenge
Buddhism in China
Diamond Kings of Heaven
Hua-hu Tiao devours Yang Chien
The Three Causes
Yuean-shih T'ien-tsun
Yue Huang
T'ung-t'ien Chiao-chu
The God of the Immortals
The Founder of Modern Taoism
Chang Tao-ling's Great Power
Goddess of the North Star
Blue Dragon and White Tiger
Fanning the Grave
The Dragon-boat Festival
Tzu-ya goes to K'un-lun
The Soaring Head
Ch'iung Hsiao's Magic Scissors
Thousand-li Eye and Favourable-wind Ear
Celestial Ministries
The Kitchen-god
The God of Happiness
The God of Longevity
Chinese Polytheism
CHAPTER V
The Sun-king
Vanquishes the Wind-spirit
Kills Chisel-tooth
Shen I visits the Moon
The Herdsman and the Weaver-girl
A Victim of Ta Chi
Myths of Time
Worship of T'ai Sui
CHAPTER VI
Lei Kung in the Tree
The Mother of Lightning
The One-legged Bird
CHAPTER VII
The Dragon-kings
The Ministry of Waters
The Shipwrecked Servant
The Dragon in the Pond
Golden Dragon Great Prince
The Magic Vermicelli
The Great Flood
Legend of the Building of Peking
The Prince opens the Sealed Packet
General Prosperity
The Pursuit of the Dragons
CHAPTER VIII
Hui Lu
CHAPTER IX
The Five Graduates
The Musicians are Slain
The Ministry of Medicine
The Exorcism of 'Emptiness and Devastation'
CHAPTER X
Miao Chuang desires an Heir
A Message for Yue Huang
Her Sisters Marry
She is Exiled to the Garden
She makes Offering to the Buddha
The Execution of Miao Shan
Miao Shan visits the Infernal Regions
A Test of Virtue
Miao Shan attains to Perfection
The Transformation of Shan Ts'ai
The Disguised Priest-doctor
A Conspiracy that Failed
The Gruesome Remedy
The King Cured
The King's Repentance
CHAPTER XI
Chung-li Ch'uean
Chang Kuo
Ho Hsien Ku
Han Hsiang Tzu
Pa Hsien Kuo Hai
CHAPTER XII
The Slaying of the Dragon-king's Son
Drastic Measures
Another Encounter
Li Ching destroys his Son's Statue
A Battle between Father and Son
CHAPTER XIII
Offence and Defence
Buddhahood
CHAPTER XIV
A Rod of Iron
Double Immortality
Broad-jump Competition
Chu Pa-chieh
Hsuean Chuang finds his Grandmother
Perils by the Way
Blind Man's Buff
The Monkey under the Mountain
The Master Rescued
The Generals Tricked
Restraints on Freedom
Sun bestows Talismans
Help from Ju Lai
The Power of the Magic Fan
An Awkward Predicament
Shaving a Whole City
The Travellers Honoured
CHAPTER XV
The Marriage Lottery
The Magnanimous Girl
The Boon-companion
The Alchemist [44]
CHAPTER XVI
The Armless People
The People of the Punctured Bodies
The Wild Men
The Cursed Temple
The Maniac's Mite
The Origin of a Lake
How made Heaven and earth? How made insects? How made men and demons? Made male and made female? I who speak don't know.
The Dream of the South Branch
Ch'un-yue Fen enters the Locust-tree
He writes to his Father
He meets with Disasters
Ch'un-yue Regenerate
A Strange Contract
THE PRONUNCIATION OF CHINESE WORDS
Tone
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