Category: Hop Sing
Stories that focus on Hop Sing
Bringing Harmony into the World (by DJK)
Summary: Alone at the ranch, Hop Sing and a young Little Joe assist a mare in delivering her foal. Written for the 2026 Hop Sing’s Chinese New Year Challenge. rating: teen word count: 2633
Tiānyì (by PatD in PA)
Summary: Written for “Hop Sing’s Chinese New Year Challenge 2026,” honoring the year of the Fire Horse.
Rating: G/K
Word Count: 1,350
A Percolator Conniption (by AC1830)
Summary: While the Cartwrights are away, Hop Sing plans a massive Spring cleaning. But his blissful time alone is soon interrupted by an unwanted visitor who brings an unexpected gift. Written for the 2025 4th Quarter Chaps and Spurs Challenge. The required words were percolate, earthquake, pipeline, surgeon, amendment.
Rating: G, Word Count: 2324
The Fragrance of Violets (by McFair)
Summary: A shadowed room, thick with the scent of incense, reverberates with the whispers of the Ancestors. What do they seek, and can anyone defy their mystic call? For He Xing—known to the white man as Hop Sing—questions crowd the silence, yet only one answer emerges, undeniable and unyielding. Xuè hǎi xuè chóu. Blood revenge.
Rating: T+ Word Count: 55,685
A Wise Man Said (by JC)
Summary: Insightful observations from the Journal of Hop Sing Rating: G WC: 445
No Time (by Belle)
Summary: When hop Sing faces a difficult Christmas season, he discovers the true value of time.
Rating: G 1,835 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
I Heard the Bells (by AC1830)
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Hop Sing shares with the Cartwrights the meaning of the Christmas bells in his own life.
Rating: G
Words: 2,440
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
The Broken Cord (by McFair_58)
Summary: A tie that binds is broken. Can Hop Sing make it – and the Cartwrights – whole again?
Rating: G Words 3,420
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Song of the Bells (by SJR Cartwright)
Summary: Practice makes perfect when it matters the most.
Written for day 21 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 2049
In Absentia #5 – Homesick (by Belle)
Summary: Hop Sing’s choice to stay with the Cartwrights is challenged by his first winter at the Ponderosa
Written for day 12 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1326
Part of the In Absentia Series, links to all stories included within
Be a Candle (by mcfair_58)
Summary: Every year, on the night before Christmas Eve, Hop Sing would make candles. Now, candles are kind of old fashioned, so I asked him why. This is the tale he told me, a tale of wonder and grace.
Written for day 9 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 3915
A Warrior’s Tears (mcfair_58)
Summary: A youthful dream becomes an adult nightmare for Hop Sing. Does he have what it takes to save his beloved Cartwrights?
Word Count: 7,348
Rated: PG
Hop Sing’s Fortune Cookies (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Just some short drabbles/snippets (each 100 words) inspired by a posted fortune. Completed the first 5 or 6 fortunes that were missed during the original challenge in the forums and then combined them all to be posted here. Written for the 2019 Fortune Cookie Challenge.
Rating: K+ / Word Count: 1668
His Place (by DJK)
Summary: A slice-of-life from Hop Sing’s point of view.
Rated: K Word count: 736
Traces of Sand (by DJK)
Summary: Hop Sing faces a dilemma.
Rated: T Word count: 2017
