The story of Jingwei reclaiming the sea in about 50 words
Jingwei went to the East China Sea and drowned in the water. After his death, his spirit of injustice was transformed into a divine bird, which brought stones and grasses from the mountains every day and threw them into the East China Sea, and then uttered the mournful cry of "Jingwei, Jingwei". The details of the story are as follows: 200 miles to the north, there is a mountain called Fajiao Mountain, on which there are dense cudgel trees. There was a bird in the mountain, shaped like a common crow, but with a flowery head, white beak and red feet and claws; its name was Jingwei, and the cry it made was the pronunciation of its own name. Jingwei bird was originally the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan Di, named Nuwa. The female child traveled to the East China Sea. She drowned in the East China Sea and did not return, so she became a Jingwei bird, often carrying branches and stones from the West Mountain to fill the East China Sea. Zhangshui originated from this mountain and flowed eastward into the Yellow River.