Jingwei Fills the Sea, a Legend from China

Many years ago, the Chinese god called Yan Emperor had a beautiful daughter.  One day he took his daughter out on the East Sea in a boat; however, the boat was capsized by a large wave, and the daughter drowned.  Her spirit became a beautiful bird that flew over the sea and cried out “Jingwei!”  This bird hated the East Sea and decided that she would fill it up.  Every day, without rest, the Jingwei bird would carry stones and tree branches from the nearby mountains and drop them into the East Sea.  She never tired of fulfilling her mission to fill up the East Sea so that no one else would ever drown in it again!  (The pic is the coast of the Indian Ocean, Thailand.)