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Chinese fairy tale

Does anyone know if there's a Chinese fairy tale or legend that involves an old man randonly handing someone a red box and in the box is a magic cup (or two magic cups)? ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Fri, Nov 23 2007

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