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A symbol of Jingwei's reclamation/tenacious determination

Jingwei bird tried to fill the sea.

A long time ago, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan (the legendary ruler of primitive China) went boating in the East China Sea. Just as she was having fun, there was a strong wind at sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the raging waves, her soul turned into a beautiful bird. When it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound of "Jingwei, Jingwei". This is why people call it "Jingwei".

The bird lives on a mountain by the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flies between the mountain and the sea, takes a twig or a small stone from the mountain and throws it into the sea.

One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor bird, don't do that meaningless thing again!" You will never fill me. " Jingwei replied: "I will definitely fill you up! I will, even if it takes me thousands of years! I will fight until the end of the world! "

This brave bird kept carrying branches and pebbles from the mountain to the East China Sea without rest.

This idiom comes from this legend. We use it to describe those who are firm, indomitable and will never give up until they reach their goals.

The?Foolish?Old?Man?Removes?the?Mountains

Taihang Mountain and Huangwu Mountain, Fiona Fang can reach 700 Li, as high as 78 thousands of feet. They were originally located in the south of Jizhou, on the north bank of the Yellow River.

A northerner named Yugong, nearly 90 years old, lives in Mianshan. Yugong went up the mountain and suffered from blocking the road north, all the way around. Yu Gong then called the whole family to discuss and said, "You and I will try our best to level the two mountains. It will pass through Yuzhou in the south before reaching the south bank of the Han River. Will you?" We agree with him. Yugong's wife asked, "With your strength, even Kuifu Mountain has no injustice in cutting land, but what about Taihang Mountain and Wangwu Mountain Mountain?" Besides, where are we going? " One by one, we: "to the edge of the earth and rocks, into the Bohai Sea, the hidden land in the north." The children and grandchildren of Yugong can lead the three people to jump, cut stones and dig the earth, and send the baskets to the Bohai Sea. Neighbors in Beijing have an orphan named widow, who is only seven or eight years old and helps them to jump. In winter and summer, this is the only one.

The bent over and giggled and stopped the foolish old gentleman: "You are so clever. What can you do without destroying the grass, mud and rocks of a mountain with your efforts for the rest of the year? " The Yugong of Beishan sighed and said, "You are stubborn and stubborn to the point where you can't change, unlike widows and children. Even if I die, his son is in it; Children and grandchildren are born, and children and grandchildren are full; Son and his son, son and grandson; Children and grandchildren have not come to an end, but the mountain will not increase the height of unfair excavation. Why worry? " Moses, the old gentleman, did not bow his head and then answered.

The mountain with the snake heard about it and was afraid that he would continue to dig. The association reported it. The emperor was moved by his sincerity and ordered Xia Houdun's two sons to go back to two hills. There is a Shuofang in the east and a Yongzhou in the south. Since then, in the south of Jizhou and the north of Hanshui, there is no mountain barrier.