Chinese Folktales And Myths

The Chinese have told each other stories for many different reasons - to teach things to their children, to make each other laugh, to record their feelings and observations and to explain how things got to be the way they are. Thus, common themes in Chinese folktales and myths revolve around filial piety in "Madam White Snake", triumph of good over evil in "Journey to the West", supremacy of wisdom over sheer physical strength in "the Romance of the three kingdoms", "Hua Mulan", cleverness and resourcefulness in "Wu Song kills a tiger", everlasting love in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu YingTai", "A Dream Of Red Mansions", "The Cowherd and the Girl Weaver", supernatural in "The Goddess Of Mercy", "God Of Longevity", "Zhong Kui", "Nuwa Repairs the Heaven", "Pangu Creates the Universe". Through these stories, Chinese values, traditions and customs are passed from one generation to the next.Follow the series "The Son Of The Turtle" showing an everlasting love.

The story of "The Son Of The Turtle-Spirit" have given us thoughts about supernatural powers. The childs mother shows brave, selfawareness characters dealing with happen around her. The mother character shows itself she is a typical chinese. Chinese believe that their old people who dies must be pray and ceremony to sending of their soul must be handled carefully. The believe are followed by chinese traditional families till today to face succeed life with the help of their forefathers.

The son character obey the mother`s order to place the bones of his father`s in the dragon`s mouth and hang the other bones on his horns. The son follows it exactly and one day he have became the Emperor. So, it have given a positive thinking attitudes to the reader to hear what ever advise from the parents. Parents advice are to be followed to succeed in life.

The reason why we are introducing tales, fables, folktales to motivate children to read as they get some information about real life. Another reason to make the teaching and learning process occur in the open classroom.

Form 2 Classroom

Chapter 3

Famous Faces

Skills:

Read and understand an article on remarkable man

Scan for details

Identify main ideas

Sequence ideas in a diagram