Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Legend of Sun Moon Lake

At the campsite, I had read the story/ origin of the Sun Moon Lake and it goes like this: There were a couple who were farmers. The couple were very hardworking and their names are Da Jian Brother and Shui She Sister. One day, the Sun was suddenly gone from the sky. The people were frantic about it and worried how they would work without the sunlight. So the farmers had to work with the moon light. However, the next day, the moon was also gone. The farmers held a meeting and later decided to go with the couple's suggestion. Which was the couple going off to find the sun and the moon. They walked and walked and they finally reached a lake. The couple saw two dragons playing with the sun and the moon. There was an old man who worked nearby, and he told the couple about the golden scissors and ax in Ali mountain which could kill the dragons. The couple killed the dragons after they got their weapons. The man told them once again, that if they ate the eyeballs of the dragons, they would grow extremly tall, and they could put the sun and the moon back in the sky. The couple did as the man told them, and they reached the sky and put the sun and the moon back. The couple became the mountains Da Jian, and Shui She that guards the lake, and the lake was named: Sun Moon Lake.

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