Little_Cinder_Girl

Little Cinder Girl The classic story of Cinderella that we all know is just one of more than a thousand versions of the story that have been written in different countries and by different cultures all over the world. No matter how many different ways it is written, no little girl can resist the story of Cinderella and finding true love with her prince. Every culture has a Cinderella story. From India, Russia, Vietnam, Norway, France, Slavic and even a Native American version. Each and every story relates to the culture in which it was written. The earliest version of the Cinderella tale comes from China. Tuan Ch’eng-shih wrote it down in the middle of the ninth century A.D. (850-60 Common Era). The tone of the story that Tuan Ch’eng-shih wrote implies that its readers and listeners were already well acquainted with the story by the time it was written down. The heroine of the Chinese tale is Yeh-shen. In the early version there is no fairy godmother, instead there is a magical fish that is Yeh-shen\'s helper. However, a golden shoe is used to identify Yeh-shen to the prince who wants to marry her. Cinderella finds her prince cinderella, story, prince, shoe, girl, written, one, little, ball, version, stories, tree, cinder, time, tale, read, nut, made, different, after, young, true, sisters, reader, invisible, form, every, even, cultures, bird, about, yeh-shen, wrote, world, versions