Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
The
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang () is a miscellany of
Chinese and foreign legends and hearsay, reports on natural phenomena, short anecdotes and tales of the wondrous and mundane, and notes on such topics as medicinal herbs and tattoo.
Youyang refer to a small hill located to what's now
Huaihua, Hunan. The book was written by
Duan Chengshi in the
9th century, and is divided in to 30 volumes, containing unusually varied content of the over thirteen hundred entries which describes the world that Duan Chengshi heard about, read of, or personally observed.
It contain a similar version of
Cinderella under the name Ye Xian on chapter 21, the story was allegedly told by his servant Li Shiyuan, a native from what's now
Nanning, it occurred during the late
3rd century BC, the exact location is unknown, but most favourite candidate would be now
Guangxi, where shoe was eventually founds its way to a king from an island.
