To Speak or Not

Now, I will continue telling the story.~~~~~~~

In a short while, everyone arrived at the drinking place. There were two bowls on the ground. One was a beautiful gold bowl filled with clean water. The other was a broken wooden bowl filled with dirty water. Everyone looked at the water in the wooden bowl, each species squinted and said, " I am not going to drink this dirty water!" Then they looked at the beautiful gold bowl that was shining in the bright sun. It was so beautiful! Everyone could not help thinking, "What a beautiful bowl! It must contain the talking water." Therefore, they all rushed to drink it. Only the little frog who grew up in the pond knew which bowl was the "talking water". He whispered to Man, "Go to drink the water in the broken wooden bowl. That is the talking water. Do not let the others drink it." Man said," No! You should drink it." The little frog said, "I can only swim in the water and hop on the land. I can not do as much as a human can. It really does not matter whether I talk or not." When the frog finished speaking, it drank the water in the golden bowl with one big gulp. The man then drank up the talking water in the broken wooden bowl. From then on, only man was permitted to talk. Everything else remained silent.

Here, the story is over. Maybe it is not true, but these stories make life become more colourful. Meanwhile, it also gives people many imagination! Why did people creat the story? I think, because people in the old days could not explain how humans had the ability to talk an other forms of life could not, they created this story. Though the little frog's narration, the man in the story is unselfish, and helpful. Because of these traits, he was respected and granted the opportunity to talk.

Actually, you can give full play to your imagination for creating your own stories. That would be interesting!

To Speak or Not

Wow, you know, China has a long rich history, of course, it has many traditional folktales. Today, I will introduce one folktale called " To speak or not" from China.

It was said that in the early days not only people, but tigers, lions, elephants, trees, stones, in short, everything could talk. One day, everybody was talking at the same time. This woke up the God of Heavens. God angrily said, "Too many things can talk. I think I will just allow one species to talk. This way it won't be so noisy." But , who should talk and who should not talk?
To be fair, the heavenly God called everyone to assemble in front of him. He wanted everyone to drink the magic water. There were two kinds of magic water, one was the "talking water." If one drank it, he might continue to talk. The other kind was the "dumb water." If one drank this, he would not be able to talk anymore. So he scheduled a date for the water drinking event. When the day came, every object hurried to the pre-arranged place to drink the water. Since everyone was afraid that the supply of "talking water" would be completely consumed by those arriving first, they hurried and ran. Only the samll frog was left behind, hopping along. Because it was so slow, it became very worried. When Man saw it, he held up the little frog and kept on walking. The little frog was so thankful. He thought, "Only man has the kindest heart in this world. Man is so thoughtful, if he does not get a chance to drink the "talking water", it would be such a pity! I should think of some way to allow him to drink the water. But only one species could drink the "talking water". If Man drinks it, then I would not have any to drink. And I would not be able to talk anymore. The little frog thought and thought. He did not know what
to do. He looked up at Man. Man smiled at him and said, "Do not worry, little frog, I will get you there quickly." When the little frog heard this, he felt so embarrassed by his selfishness that he lowered his head. He thought, " I am too greedy. Man did not even think of himself. He only thought of getting me there in time. I have to get the talking water for Man to drink."

What happened? Would the little frog let Man drink "talking water" ? If you want to know the ending of story, please pay attention to my next blog. Thank you!!!