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Story: |xue as a ||gui tree and a fly
Title
|xue as a ||gui tree and a fly
Collection
Summary
At sunset |xue becomes |xue and lies on the ground and sleeps on his own. At sunrise he awakens and sees the sun and becomes ||gui (a tree). His wife sees the ||gui and picks some of its fruit. The ||gui vanishes and |xue becomes a fly instead. |xue's wife is upset about the ||gui vanishing and lies on the ground to cry. |xue in the form of the fly settles on the grass (called go o).
Comments
1) This story is found in Book XI & XII-5
Contributors
Date
March 1880
Categories
Keywords
|xue (as a ||gui tree and a fly) , |xue (his transformations) , |xue (becomes a ||gui tree and his wife picks the fruit) , |xue (and his wife) , |xue (becomes a fly) , |xue (changes at sunrise and sunset) , plants (!kun names of) , plants (the ||gui tree) , plants (a grass called go o) , plants (his wife cries on the ground) , transformation (of |xue) , transformation (|xue as a ||gui tree and a fly) , transformation (|xue changes at sunrise and sunset) , names (!kun, of plants and trees that |xue becomes) , wife (|xue's) , wife (|xue as a ||gui tree and a fly) , fly (|xue as a ||gui tree and fly)
Story Pages
9392-9394
