Back time in our ancient history,Gonggong,the God of Water and Zhurong, the God of Fire just run into a fight. And Gonggong was defeated at last, who knocked his head over the Mount of Buzhou in the west in result of shame. Since the mount is the pillar supporting the sky, afterwars the mount burst apart, the sky just fell down in half. Cracks sink on the earth, fires broke out in the forests, the unprecedented disaster befallen.
The Goddess of Sky-patching, Nvwa felt painful for the sufferings of human-kind and determined to patch the sky and halt the whole disater. She chose various color of stone and melt them, fill into the hole in the sky. Support the sky with the four feet of a giant tortise. Piles after piles of reed were collected by Nuwa to burn into ash and used to wall up the floods.
Now the human regained their peaceful life. From then on, the sky lean on the north-west, and the sun, together with the moon and stars setting to the west.
Whennever there is the rainbow, that would be the iridescent of the great sky-patching stone.
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The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea
Once upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, legendary ruler of primitive China, went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose on the sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound "jinwei, jingwei". That was why people called it "Jingwei".
The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.
One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up." Jingwei replied, "I'll fill you up no doubt! I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight on until doomsday!"
The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.
From this fable comes the idiom "The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea". We use it to describe people who are firm and indomitable and will not stop until they reach their goal.