The Paulownia Court

In this chapter of the story, there's and emperor who loves a lady very much, the problem is that she is very sick, she is barely at the court and the other ladies kind of hate her and her son. One day the lady got very ill and died leaving behind the emperor, her mother and her son who lived at his grandmother's house until the emperor ask for him to go back.
The boy was the favorite of the emperor so he was sent to school and they took really good care of him; but there was another lady, the first on the emperor's life who was jealous of the boy because she didn't want him to take the throne instead of his son, but the boy was still very young.
I think it's the typical story of everyone being jealous of everyone and it gets pretty messy until somebody realizes the one they hate is not that bad and they are friends at the end. Anyway, it's just the first chapter, who know :)

Tao Teh Ching

I did a little research and the title means something like the road to virtue. What I've read it's mainly spiritual stuff like if you avoid can make better lives and things that things that if you really do can make a big change in it. How opposites complement each other  like difficult and easy or music and voice, and how sometimes it's better to stay in the middle of both, it's never good to go to extremes, not to much and not few. It explains that heaven and earth are forever because they do not exist for themselves and how the virtues or in this case the mystic virtues take you to better lives. I actually agree to this ideas but it's also too spiritual, I prefer objective and clear things but that's my point of view.

"The Story of Santanu and Ganga"

In the Indian culture there's kind of like a book Mahabharata with some traditional stories based on the Indian mythology, with the video and the story, I realized that as the romans and greeks they made stories about their gods and believes. From this story which is better explained than on the video I kind of like understood the most of it but it's still complicated. The fact that the king (dad) was a man of word and kept his promise, then the girl married the son of the king under the agreement he'll never question her decisions but after so much suffering loosing his 7 children he stopped her, and realized there was a curse threatening them, but as he broke the agreement the girl had to leave him with the 8th child who still had the curse.

I actually understood that the curse was because one of the ancestors stole the sacred cow of a god and gave it to one of his girls to keep someone away from suffering and sickness. I really didn't like the story at all but i's okay, it's a good story just not my type; however, I really like Indian culture and I will love to have the chance to go and appreciate it and live it personally.