GENEROUS - Li Chi, the Serpent Slayer, #AtoZChallenge

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GENEROUS

When the Silk Road opened, trading brought outside beliefs, warriors, and conquerors into China because the Emperors at that time were many and bidding war against each other. With helped from heroes, worms and serpents who threatened the protective wise Celestial Dragons and earthy Dynasty Dragons, were displace. 

Li Chi, the Serpent Slayer, is such a heroine who helped start the Golden Dynasty with mighty Golden Dragon Emperors, who gain control of China's prosperity; harmony that lasted for generations.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-8-2017 - Letter G

Festive - The Lonely Dragon, #AtoZchallenge

FESTIVE

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The villages respected the dragons, because they offered protection, controlled the weather thus creating good fortune and wealth, now a dragon becomes a friend and brings the festive New Year to a starving village.

Once a very long time ago, Mei Ling, a young girl, lived in an impoverished 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.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-7-2017 - Letter F

ENABLING - Dragons from the Sky, #AtoZChallenge

ENABLING

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In the summer when the villagers worked in their fields of grain, dark clouds covered the sun. A cold wind blew hard and fast. The trees bent. Fog surround everything; then a loud thump on the ground.

The farmers, fishermen, and villagers feared and loved the power of the dragons from the sky. These dragons are given credit for good fortune and change by providing rain for crops and fishing. About this time the different Emperors, Lords of Rivers and Lakes, declared that they were related to the mystical, powerful celestial dragons using the respect and honor of the dragons and to provide themselves power with the people.

As a storyteller, I want adults and children to know why Dragons enabled culture and history through the respect gained and the use of the dragons by the Emperors to declaring they power in China. If I misrepresent anything, please let me know.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-6-2017 - Letter E

Distinguish - MIN, the River Dragon, #AtoZchallenge

DISTINGUISH

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Many centuries from ancient time, the shard of pearl laid buried in the ground in the mountains. In a village near by lived a poor boy by the name of Min. By cutting grasses in the valley, he brought rice and tea for his blind mother. This year was exceedingly hot and extremely dry; the grasses died. Min had to travel up the West Mountains to find grass and where he recovers a magic pearl shards from the Pearl of Jade Dragon and Golden Phoenix.

For centuries River Kingdoms were in power and by use of the DRAGONS and fought for the control over China. Such is the story of Dragon Min, a boy who became a river dragon and helped the villagers. While becoming a dragon and looking back at his mother, Min made mud banks around the river to hold shrimps, crabs, eel and fish, and the river irrigated the crops and vegetables. Thus, Dragon Min, like many other, is honored and respected for bringing change, good fortune, and wealth to the river, the villagers, and the farmers.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-5-2017 - Letter D

Cherish - Dragon and Phoenix

CHERISH

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The First Dragon, P’angu, died after creating China. He left the Dragons, the Phoenix, the Unicorn, and the Tortoise, who tells the people P’angu dreams.

P'angu also left his Father the sky; Yang and his Mother the earth, Yin. For centuries, they were serpents with human heads then dragons. As thousand of years passed, P'angu’s Mother was titled Queen Mother of the West and his Father King Father of the East. Each transformed into humans and dressed in the finest gowns of golden silk embroidered with dragons of bright colors. They are Celestial Dragons that hold up the heavens and live in the royal temple on a golden mountain that reaches into the middle of the sky. One of P'angu brother draws the Sun God's chariot through the day. During the First Dynasty of the Earth Dragon, the Sun God helped humans; he gave medicine and herbs and the five crop stone to the farmers.

P’angu friends, the White Jade Dragon and the Golden Phoenix, stayed in the Milky Way and created a magic Pearl, which the Queen Mother of the West steals for a 3,000-year  party when her peaches ripen.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-4-2017 - Letter C

Boundless - P'angu, the First Dragon, #AtoZ Challenge

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BOUNDLESS

Before there was anything, there was Yin and Yang in chaos circling in the sky of the might Milky Way. P’angu, the First Dragon came from the comic egg and as he grew he dreamed creating the Dragons, the Phoenix, the Unicorn and the Tortoise. He left us China; today we are part of his world.

The Chinese have told stories about dragons for thousands of years. There are the heavenly celestial Dragons, the dragons of the sky, the earth dragons of the rivers, lakes, mountains, and the court dragons of the Emperor. Chinese Dragons fly without wings, don't breath fire, control the weather, change shapes, die and are reborn. When Dragon bones are found in lakes, rivers or on mountains they are power medicines.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-3-2017 - Letter B

Ambition - Asian Stories #AtoZ Challenge

AMBITIOUS

When telling stories at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, I had the opportunity of my life, immersion in ancient and modern Eastern culture learning about the arts, history, and stories: myths, folktales, legends, and cautionary tales. I call this education my 'Doctorate' in Storytelling.

AMBITIOUS - now I am to write the stories and posts to my pages on the internet. 

My first set of folktales are about DRAGONS, and their importance in shaping of Chinese history. Dragon is a mystical beast and part of the Chinese Zodiac which started about 5,700 years ago. This first drawing of a dragon was found in on a shell about 7,500 years ago.

 Dragon represents creation, magic, strength, respect, honor, good fortune, prosperity, wisdom, good health and power, which leaders used and Emperors wanted. The traditional stories selected for DRAGON SHAPES CHINA depicts this mythical beast history and ambition and epic reputation.

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The second set is a mythical legend from the Hindu Ramayana. The epic adventure of King Rama, SITA, the loyal wife of Rama, his brother, and the ten-headed Demon Ravana, who abducts Sita, and of course, Hauaman. Sita is the narrator of these events:  her love, her marriage, her kidnap, and her banishment from Rama's court.

The third set of folktales is simple short history TIGER'S SAGA of ancient Korean and the Man of the Mountain, who stands with Tiger. Today they appear at festivals together. Tiger represents dignity, courage, power, is fierce, unpredictable, territorial, cruel and greedy, has passion, devoted, adventurous, can bring good luck, and solitary. Tiger has powerful muscles, swims, untiring, hunts slowly, silently and carefully at night, and is a good parent.
Tiger is the third in the Zodiac. In Korean the King of Beast and the Lord of the West.

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge: #AtoZChallenge - 4-1-2017 - Letter A