The Long Haired Girl: A Chinese Legend.

New York:: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995.. First Edition, so stated, 1st printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 10.75 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide . Light blue endpapers. Description: Beautifully illustrated in color with woodcuts by Yang Ming-Yi. This is a retelling of a Chinese legend about a village suffering from drought, and a lovely girl with distinctive long hair. One day she accidentally discovers a secret spring belonging to the God of Thunder. He tells her she must die if she reveals the spring. So she keeps still. But the plight of her parents and her people so distresses her that her beautiful long hair turns white. Then one day when an old man stumbles, and spills his precious water which they must carry from far away, the long-haired girl decides that she is willing to die to save the villagers and she shares the secret of the spring. The method the old man who roused her pity uses to help her explains the legend of the White Hair Falls.