In 1941, Eberhard published a supplementary monograph in the same series, Volksmärchen aus Südost-China, Sammlung Ts'ao Sung-yeh, which offered the actual texts of 190 folktales translated into German, corresponding to many of the tale types he had previously established. This collection was chiefly obtained from schoolchildren in Chin-hua in Chekiang province, the seat of the aboriginal Yao culture.
An illustration of this is provided by the Lan-ch'i County Gazetteer (Lan-ch'i hsien-chih) for the Cheng-te reign (1506-1521), which gives the following figures from a survey made around 1228 in Lan-ch'i county in Wu-chou (present-day Chin-hua) in Chekiang:
A bright boy, he received training at home but tended to be lazy. At the age of twenty-one, he was sent to Chin-hua in Chekiang to study with Lü Tsu-ch’ien (1137- 1181).
