Elizabeth looked up. She saw the phoenix and the dragon hovering above the clouds.
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And I’m sure I will have a very fun time!” Elizabeth exclaimed.
Back in her school, her history teacher told Elizabeth Chinese myths.
She remembered the story about a man called Pangu who used 18,000 years to separate the sky from the
earth. And the one where a river deity fought a man, just because the deity didn’t drink the man’s wine. And
the story of Nü Wa. She made humans from clay, forming each one carefully. But after she had made lots of
figures in this way, she still had more to make but had grown tired of the long and difficult process. So, instead
of handcrafting each figure, she dipped a rope in mud and flicked it so blobs of mud landed everywhere. These
blobs of mud became the common or village people and the ones Nü Wa crafted out of clay became the nobles.
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