Meng Chiang-nu And The Dragon by Jyotsna Lal - HTML preview

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Meng Chiang-nu prayed to the Tien Hou the Empress of heaven for protection The forest was full of wild animals and she was very frightened.

The Empress of heaven was pleased with Meng Chiang-nu, because she knew that Meng Chiang-nu was a hardworking girl

Meng Chiang-nu, had a kind and loving heart so Tien Hou the Empress of heaven gave her the gift of tongues. Now Meng Chiangnu could speak to the animals. In Fukien, the Yung Mountain range towered to a height of many miles at the peaks.

The northwest part of these mountains, Deep down inside a cavern where the sun has never shone Neath mountain, rock, and water, lived a giant Dragon all alone, no fire dwelled in his belly inside him is only ice, The coldness coming off him was his only living vice a length of time uncertain passed since he last fell asleep and cursed will be the fool that wakes him from his slumber deep It’s not that he is evil or that waking makes him mad , but terrorized the people of the region for years. The monster was not pleased with offerings of oxen or sheep. It was roaring and spitting fire and burning the wooden huts. The dragon was wider than the span of ten hands and over seventy feet long. Meng Chiang-nu wandered in the northwest part of these mountains, where the giant dragon lived. Meng Chiang-nu could speak to the animals.