I happened across a 1937 printing of Frances Carpenter's Tales of a Chinese Grandmother: 30 Traditional Tales from China, and it is a delight. There's a story of a little girl who was hit by a thrown rock that gashed and scarred her eyebrow, and when she grew to maidenhood she was shamed and terrified that her gapped eyebrow so ruined her appearance, but the handsome young man who'd climbed the garden wall and seen her and had bespoken her bride-price turned out to be the boy who'd thrown that long-ago rock, and he was very sorry for it, had been all his life, and he bade the servant bring his inkpot and brush… and he carefully inked in a perfect eyebrow! So he did every day from then on, in loving devotion, and people forgot there'd ever been anything wrong with her appearance!
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Date: 2015-02-05 01:19 pm (UTC)I happened across a 1937 printing of Frances Carpenter's Tales of a Chinese Grandmother: 30 Traditional Tales from China, and it is a delight. There's a story of a little girl who was hit by a thrown rock that gashed and scarred her eyebrow, and when she grew to maidenhood she was shamed and terrified that her gapped eyebrow so ruined her appearance, but the handsome young man who'd climbed the garden wall and seen her and had bespoken her bride-price turned out to be the boy who'd thrown that long-ago rock, and he was very sorry for it, had been all his life, and he bade the servant bring his inkpot and brush… and he carefully inked in a perfect eyebrow! So he did every day from then on, in loving devotion, and people forgot there'd ever been anything wrong with her appearance!