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6 Jing wei Fills the Sea
精卫填海
女娃到东海游玩，溺于水中，因心中不平化为神鸟，名曰精卫。她每天衔石子企图填满大海，大海嘲笑精卫，以她微薄之力几万年也填不满大海。精卫仍然坚持不懈，相信再困难的事只要有毅力终能完成。
Welcome to ALO7’s Power to Learn! Today’s story is Jingwei Fills the Sea, retold by Jenny Lam and Sheila Higginson and narrated by Edward Scott.
The sun shone on the calm sea. Princess Nuwa smiled at its reflection.
It looked like a gold pebble in the water.
Nuwa walked down to the beach. She slid her small boat into the water.
She rowed out to sea.
Suddenly, clouds hid the sun. Birds returned to the beach.
Rain poured down. A strong wind blew across the sea. The wind made the waves rise. Higher! Higher! Waves pounded her boat.
The strong waves tipped over Nuwa’s boat. The boat sank into the sea.
Princess Nuwa sank too. She fought against the waves. They seemed higher than the sun. She reached upward. Was she swimming? Was she flying?