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Jing Wei Filling Up The Sea
Legend has it that Yan Emperor has a lively and lovely daughter called Nu Wa. And Yan Emperor loved her very much.
One day, she walked to a village. While she saw an boy riding a little child as a horse. Nu Wa walked over to yell, "You are too bad. What is the ability to bully the child? If you have the strength, please go to kill tigers and bears, people will say you are a hero."
As Nu Wa girl a girl, the boy jumped from the child's back, shouted: "I am the son of the Dragon King, who are you? How dare you come to control me!"
Nu Wa said: "What is the son of the dragon king ? However, I am a daughter of Yan Emperor, Don't make troubles here, otherwise, I will hang you on the tree to dry. "
And then, they started fighting. But the dragon king's son couldn't won, he had to return to the sea in disgrace.
A few days later, Nu Wa went swimming in the sea. She was seen by the dragon king's son. He swam over and asked: " Give me a apology at once ! otherwise, i'll draw you in the turmoil sea right now."
"I'm right, I am not wrong." The girl said stubbornly.
Nu Wa was stubborn. The dragon king's son stirred immediately the sea water, and set off a violent wind and a bad wave. The girl was too late to struggle, and she was drowned in the sea and never came back.
Nu Wa was not reconciled to her death, and then her soul changed into a bird named "
Jing Wei".
Jing Wei had a flowered head, white mouth, and red claws,which looked like a crow and lived in the north of Fajiu Mountain.
Ruined by the ruthless sea waves, Jing Wei decided to take some little stones or tree-branches to fill the sea. Her idea is not to make other people die in the sea in the future. Jin Wei flied endlessly between the hill and sea.
"A bird, forget it, even if you have been doing it for millions of years, you can't try to fill me up!" the roaring sea mocked.
"Even if it takes thousands million years , at the end of the world, I will fill you up!" Jing Wei replied resolutely , soared highly to fly above the sea.
"Silly bird, then you do it-do it!" The sea laughed loudly.
"I want to do! I want to do endlessly! I will fill you to the ground someday!"Jing Wei wailed in the sky.
Jing Wei flew, screamed, left the sea, and flew back to the hill. She threw the stones and branches into the sea. She flew back and forth like this, never rested, and until today she is still doing this kind of work.
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