Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.30

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influence were commonly found. For example, *The Tale of Liuyi* tells the story of a scholar named Liu Yi who helped the Daughter of the Dragon deliver a letter, and finally got married to her. *The Tale of the Governor of Nanke* tells the story of a person who fell into an ant hole unintentionally, and became an official in the ant kingdom, got married and had a son. Both tales reflected the ancient Indians' rich imagination, strange space concepts and ideas of ‘Existence Being Equal’ in Chinese literature. Apart from this, the influence of Indian literature on Tang Legends is also reflected in the narrative structure, namely, a trunk story connected to many small stories, like *The Record of the Ancient Mirror*.