Incisive - LiAnge and the Magic Paint Brush - #AtoZChallenge
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Today's story is about a youth, LiAnge, who lived the mountains alone. His family killed by the many wars that crossed China. He gathered sticks from the woods and sold to the villagers for his food. He longed to become a scholar, a court dragon, who learned the three academic skills: painting, poetry, and calligraphy.
For his passion, he is given a magic brush by the Queen Mother of the West, mother of P'angu, to be a great painter of beauty ‘for the good of the people’. Using his paint brush to give good fortune and abundance, LiAnge's success crosses the path of a possessive, greedy Emperor.
Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-11-2017 - Letter I
Honorable - The Poet and the Peony, #AtoZChallenge...:
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Siang Yu, completed his training in the three perfections, poetry, art, and calligraphy. Now, a Dragon Scholar, a poet who paints beauty with words and images, In the beauty of ancient Taoist garden, Siang Yu creates a lasting love with a peony, a young maiden.
Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-10-2017 - Letter H
GENEROUS - Li Chi, the Serpent Slayer,
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Li Chi as other Chinese heroine displaced worms and serpents from China that battled for control over the prosperous lands from the many struggling Dynasties.
Li Chi was the youngest daughter of a farmer, who had no sons. She watched the Sorceress and the Magistrate collected rice from her Father and Mother to so her oldest sister was not sacrificed to the worm serpent who lived on the mountain. Li Chi would kill the serpent.
Festive - The Lonely Dragon:
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The villages respected the dragons, because they offered protection, controlled the weather thus creating good fortune and wealth.
Mei Ling, a young girl, lived in a poor village. Rain never came and the crops of rice and the vegetables died. Grandma said, “The villagers are afraid of the anger from the dragon on the mountain top. The village bestows no honor on him, so village not honored by dragons.” Mei Ling invites the lonely dragon to a village party.
As dragon wins respect and honor, Chinese Land Lords use the people's love for the dragon to create power and control for themselves, a tale that goes on and on.
Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-7-2017 - Letter F
