Excerpt from Chinese Nights Entertainments: Stories of Old China In the old quaint tea houses by the roadside or the crowded houseboats on their way to the tem ple, the Chinese, since time immemorial, had the habit, like the people in the time of Chaucer, of telling stories. Some would narrate their own experiences, while others would simply repeat What they had committed to memory since their childhood. These tales were handed down from one generation to another until they became a part and parcel of the nation's culture and life.

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