Duan Chengshi (Chinese: 段成式; Wade-Giles: Tuan Ch'engshih, d. 863) is known as the author of the earliest known version of Cinderella and a scholar of the Tang Dynasty of China. He was born to a wealthy family in present day Zibo, Shandong. In all probability, it was a folktale told by peasants before it was recorded on paper. Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang was a collection of stories he had gathered, published approximately 853 when he returned to Chang'an after finished his serving as the Governor of Jizhou, and in it was Yeh-Shen, or the story we know as Cinderella. Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Events Constantine I succeeds as king of Scotland. ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation). ... The Tang Dynasty (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (18 June 618 – 4 June 907), lasting about three centuries, followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Song Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. ... Zibo (Chinese: ; pinyin: ZÄ«bó) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular ethnic population, a part of the oral history of a particular culture. ... Categories: 1911 Britannica | Historical stubs | Feudalism ... The Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang (Chinese: ; pinyin: YÇ’uyáng ZázÇ”) is a miscellany of Chinese and foreign legends and hearsay, reports on natural phenomena, short anecdotes, and tales of the wonderous and mundane, as well as notes on such topics as medicinal herbs and tattoos. ... Events A Byzantine fleet destroys Damiette (in Egypt) Births Deaths Categories: 853 ... Changan â–¶(?) (Simplified Chinese: 长安; Traditional Chinese: 長安; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chang-an) is the ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in China. ... Jian (Chinese: 吉安; pinyin: Jíān) is a prefecture-level city in Jiangxi province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation). ...

External links

• Cinderella Around The World
• Professor Derk Bodde. Chinese ideas in the West (pdf)
• A Chinese Cinderella