There are a lot of sad Chinese children's stories. I just read one about the worm and the shrimp and how the worm used to have eyes, and the shrimp didn't until one day the shrimp borrowed the worms eyes and never returned them. And that's why worms live on the ground and eat dirt while shrimps are scared of everything because they are guilty. That is major personification or anthopomorphism?
Oscar Wilde wrote some sad ones, too, like The Happy Prince. I saw this first in a collection of children's stories in Chinese I had when I was little. I found out in college it was Oscar Wilde.
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