Transcript Chi`lin Purse

Ch’i-lin
Purse
Retold by Linda Fang
Pronounced Chee Lihn
Pers
Origin
•China
Genre
• Folktale: Has a moral
• Colloquial tradition: simplicty of
language and emotion
• Shunned as inferior to classical
literature by the well educated and
socially prominent
• Less formal prose
POLL
• What are types of wedding gifts?
• Are their different wedding gifts for
sons and daughters?
• Does your family/culture have any
traditional family wedding gifts?
Wedding Gifts
•Choice of gifts based
on:
•Culture, economics, and
personal choice
Vocabulary
• Teng-Cho (Deng-joh) a small town
• Hsueh (Shoo-ay) a wealthy widow
• Hsueh Hsiang-ling (Shoo-ay-sheeahng-linhg) Hsueh’s 16 year old
daughter getting married
• Chi’lin Purse (Chee Linh Pers) a
wedding gift
Hua-chiao
•Hwah-jee-aw
•A chair that is
carried
Ta-his-jin-tzu
•Tuh—shee-john-soo
•Wedding
Lai-chou
•Ly-joh
•A town
li
•Lee
•Chinese unit of distance
Yuan-wai Lu
•Yoo-ahn-wee Loo
Sung Dynasty
• Setting: the story is set in the
Sung Dynasty
• 960-1127
• What was life like during this
time?
• Matchmaker, dowry, Buddha,
Weddings
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United States
Love marriage
Limousine
Wedding procession
Parents give gifts
• Chinese
• Arranged marriages
• Hua-chiao (Hwahjee-aw)
• Wedding procession
• Parents give gifts
Think about the moral!
After Reading Discussion
•List the relationships in
this story.
•Hsiang-ling and mother
•Hsiang-ling and Mrs. Lu
What type of conflict does each
relationship show.
•Person vs. Person
How do the characters
relate?
• Mother is loving and caring, gave
Hsiang-ling everything but Hsiangling was spoiled and ungrateful of
her mother at first.
• Hsiang-ling helped Mrs. Lu at first by
giving her the purse full of wealth
and Mrs. Lu was generous by
sharing her property evenly.