Central Idea:

This mythological story portrays the image of the valiant and tenacious Jingwei, which expresses the strong desire of the ancient laboring people to explore nature, conquer nature, and control flooding, as well as their spirit of not fearing hardship, struggling more than once, and never giving up until they achieve their goal. It is also often compared to a person who is persistent.

Jingwei reclaims the sea is a story recounted in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which tells of the efforts of a bird called Jingwei to fill the sea in ancient China.

According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the bird called Jingwei was the favorite daughter of Emperor Yan Di. One day she went to play in the East China Sea, but a sudden storm hit her and she died. The girl became a bird, and her name was "Jingwei Bird".

The bird went to the west mountain and brought stones and branches, and threw them into the sea again and again, trying to fill up the East Sea. Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, wrote a poem saying: "The bird will fill the sea with stones and branches". Later, the idiom of "Jingwei reclaiming the sea" was often used to describe a person's perseverance in striving to the end according to a set goal.

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The daughter of Emperor Yan's favorite, Nuwa, went to the East China Sea to play one day, but suddenly a storm came and she fell into the sea and drowned. The spirit of the daughter was transformed into a small bird, which sang "Jingwei, Jingwei", so people called this bird "Jingwei". Seiko hated the merciless sea that took her life, and she wanted to avenge it.

So she kept on taking a small stone from the Hatake Mountain where she lived, and flew all the way to the East China Sea and threw the stone branch down to fill the sea. She was a bit of a baby, and she threw it, and she flew back and forth for years and years, and she never stopped.

Afterward, Jingwei and Haiyan married, and gave birth to many little birds, the females like Jingwei and the males like Haiyan. The little Jingwei, like their mother, also went to carry stones to fill the sea. To this day, they are still doing this kind of work.