abstract:Ye Xian () or Yeh-Shen is a Chinese fairy tale] that is similar to the European [[Cinderella story (but about a millennium older) and the Malay-Indonesian Bawang Putih Bawang Merah tale. It is one of the oldest known variants of Cinderella,Terri Windling,"Cinderella: Ashes, Blood, and the Slipper of Glass" first published in the 9th-century compilation Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang.