The Chinese Culture

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destroyed. And every time
the man rebuilt it, he made it thicker and thicker. He blamed all his
misfortune on the Duke of Thunder. The Duke of Thunder was one of the gods who
lived in the heavens. He was the god of rain and thunder. The man dispised the
Duke very much and had a pure hatred of him.

Every time it rained the Duke would descend from the heavens and stand on a
hilltop. There he would watch with pure delight as the rains and thunder came
down harder and harder. Finally the man had had enough. One day he took his
axe and waited on the hilltop for the Duke to arrive. When the rains came so did
the Duke, and the man slashed him in the back. The Duke was
hurt but not killed because he was a god. The man caged him and brought him
home. He put him in a corner and warned the kids not to go near him. And to
especially not give him water. The next morning was a beautiful sunny one, but
the Duke looked horrible almost as if he was dehydrating. The man told ...

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which had become soft. The floods were so great that the man
in his ship reached all the way to the door of the heavens. He banged the doors
and yelled let me in! The gods didn't want mortals in the heavens, so the Duke
was ordered to recede the floods. He took the floods back so fast that the man
fell back to the earth and was crushed by his ship.

The children in the soft egg bounced back to the ground safely. When they came
out, they saw everything was destroyed. They were the only ones left. They
lived happily for a while and after some time they had a child. Because they
were brother and sister the child was deformed and died a short time later. The
two kids chopped up the ...

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