The tale was also translated as The Piebald Calf. See more

Tale type
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children". This folktype contains the motif of the calumniated wife: a girl promises her husband to bear … See more

• The Crown Prince Replaced by a Cat See more

• Eberhard, Wolfram, ed. (1965) [1937]. Folktales of China. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226181936.
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An official without children leaves home to take a new post. His first wife promised him gold on his return; the second, silver; the third, a son. He was pleased with the third wife, but the other wives were jealous. When she bore a son, they claimed she had … See more

Literary history
Scholarship points that in a compilation of Buddhist teachings, titled Shijia rulai shidi xiuxing ji, there exists a story about a king whose third wive gives birth to a boy, and his jealous co-wives replace the baby with a skinned cat and … See more