Chinese Mythology: Jingwei filling the sea

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Jing Wei is one of the ancient Chinese myths and legends.

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According to legend, Jing Wei was originally the youngest daughter of Shen Nong, the Emperor of Yan, and her name was Nu Wa.

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One day, she went to the East China Sea and drowned in the water.

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After her death, she was transformed into a divine bird with a flowery head, white beak and red claws, and every day she brought stones and grasses from the mountains and threw them into the East China Sea, and then let out the mournful cry of “Jing Wei, Jing Wei”, as if calling out to herself and sighing at the injustice of fate.

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