Several varieties of monkey are native to South China; and according to one Tibetan myth, the Tibetan people are descended from a monkey ", namely Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa . " Tales of women who have been abducted and ravished by monkeys and who have then given birth to children, are common in South China, and several Chinese'clans'attribute their origins to such a union . " Eberhard ( 1968 : 53 ) calls Yang Ji the " Monkey Clan ", citing the totemistic myth recorded in the " Soushenji " and " Fayuan Zhulin " that the Yangs living in southwestern Shu ( state ) ( modern Sichuan ) were descendants of monkeys.
