1. Retold by Linda Fang Pronounced Chee Lihn Pers
Ch’i-lin Purse
Retold by Linda Fang
Pronounced Chee Lihn Pers

2. Origin
China

3. 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

4. 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?

5. Wedding Gifts
Choice of gifts based on:
Culture, economics, and personal choice

6. Vocabulary Teng-Cho (Deng-joh) a small town
Hsueh (Shoo-ay) a wealthy widow
Hsueh Hsiang-ling (Shoo-ay-shee-ahng-linhg) Hsueh’s 16 year old daughter getting married
Chi’lin Purse (Chee Linh Pers) a wedding gift

7. Hua-chiao
Hwah-jee-aw
A chair that is carried

8. Ta-his-jin-tzu
Tuh—shee-john-soo
Wedding

9. Lai-chou
Ly-joh
A town

10. li
Lee
Chinese unit of distance

11. Yuan-wai Lu
Yoo-ahn-wee Loo

12. Sung Dynasty Setting: the story is set in the Sung Dynasty 960-1127
What was life like during this time?
Matchmaker, dowry, Buddha,

13. Weddings United States Love marriage Limousine Wedding procession
Parents give gifts
Chinese
Arranged marriages
Hua-chiao (Hwah-jee-aw)
Wedding procession
Parents give gifts

14. Think about the moral!

15. After Reading Discussion
List the relationships in this story.
Hsiang-ling and mother
Hsiang-ling and Mrs. Lu

16. What type of conflict does each relationship show.
Person vs. Person

17. How do the characters relate?
Mother is loving and caring, gave Hsiang-ling everything but Hsiang-ling 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.