{"id":6551,"date":"2019-11-20T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/myth-of-jingwei-filling-the-sea-jing-wei-tian-hai\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:35:25","slug":"myth-of-jingwei-filling-the-sea-jing-wei-tian-hai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/myth-of-jingwei-filling-the-sea-jing-wei-tian-hai\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth of Jingwei Filling the Sea \u7cbe\u536b\u586b\u6d77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Jingwei Filling the Sea&quot; is a Chinese mythological story.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ancient work Shan Hai Jing (Classic of the Mountains  and Seas), the youngest and most favored daughter of the Sun God was  named Nvwa (meaning &quot;little girl&quot;). The Sun God would go to the East Sea  to direct the rising of the sun early in the morning every day and he  wouldn&#8217;t return home till sunset. Nvwa eagerly hoped that her father  would take her to the sun-rising place at the East Sea for a look. One  day, Nvwa was rowing a small boat by herself toward the East Sea  sun-rising spot. Unfortunately, a sea storm came and mountain-like waves  capsized the small boat. Nvwa lost her life to the merciless sea.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After she died, Nvwa turned into a bird with red claws and a white  beak, vowing to fill up the sea. She would hold stones and tree branches  with her beak and throw them into the sea, crying the sound of  &quot;jingwei, jingwei&#8230;&quot;, as if encouraging herself. She kept filling up  the sea year after year without stop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later, the story of &quot;Jingwei Filling the Sea&quot; became one of the most  imp0rtant Chinese myths. It&#8217;s widely considered as a symbol of dogged  determination and perseverance in the face of seemingly impossible odds.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1089530082\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Jingwei Filling the Sea&quot; is a Chinese mythological story.According to the ancient work Shan Hai Jing (Classic of the Mountains  and Seas), the youngest and most favored daughter of the Sun God was  named Nvwa (meaning &quot;little girl&quot;). The Sun God would go to the East Sea  to direct the rising of the sun early in the morning every day and he  wouldn&#8217;t return home till sunset. Nvwa eagerly hoped that her father  would take her to the sun-rising place at the East Sea for a look. One  day, Nvwa was rowing a small boat by herself toward the East Sea  sun-rising spot. Unfortunately, a sea storm came and mountain-like waves  capsized the small boat. Nvwa lost her life to the merciless sea.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology"],"views":1248,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}