Children can learn many things after reading a Cinderella story. I believe that each story conveys similar as well as different ideas. "Yeh-hsien", Grimms' "Cinderella", and "The Princess in the Suit of Leather" all teach children patience. In each of the stories the "good" person gets happiness ever after but in all three stories the girl didn't get what she wanted right away. Children can also learn that you have to take the good with the bad. Yeh-hsien's fish had to die in order for her to marry the king T'o-han. In Grimms' version, the young girl had to work hard all day long in filthy ashes and soot to finally end up with the prince. In "The Princess in the Suit of Leather," the girl had to wear skins and pretend to be something she was not in order for her to get away from her marriage to her father to finally marry her prince. Even though all the stories have these similarities they each teach something different too.
             Specifically in "Yeh-hsien", children can learn that you get what you deserve. The step-mother, for example, tricked the fish into thinking that she was her step-daughter so that it would pop its head out of the pond so she could eat it. She was granted what she deserved by getting hit with stones and dying. Yeh-hsien on-the-other-hand did what she was told and was rewarded for her allegiance to her family. She wound up living happily by marrying King T'o-han. She didn't have to do what her step-mother and sisters told her to do anymore.
             In Grimms' version, children can learn about faith and religion. The girl went to her mother's grave and wept everyday. She was told by her mother's dying voice to always say her prayers and be good. The mother told her that she would watch over her throughout her life if she kept her faith. The young girl did as her mother asked every single day and wound up in the...