A magnificently illustrated and authentic retelling of the classic Chinese folktale of the seven brothers and their supernatural gifts.
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hello this is Janie with puppy loves
me.net today I’m going to read the Seven
Chinese
Brothers once upon a time when Chan Shu
Hong was Emperor of all China seven
remarkable Brothers lived together on a
beautiful
Hillside they walked alike they talked
alike they even looked so much alike
that it was hard to tell one brother
from the next brother next to him all
the same each brother had something
special about him each brother had one
amazing power that was all his
own first brother’s amazing ears could
hear a fly sneeze from a 100 miles away
while second brother amazing eyes could
look right across the 100 miles and see
the fly sitting on the Great Wall of
China sneezing and feeling very sorry
for
itself third brother was a man of
unusual strength he could walk across
Trina in a straight line lifting up any
mountains that got in his way and
putting them carefully back behind
him fourth brother was strong too for he
had bones of iron that wouldn’t break
Buckle or
bend fifth brother had legs that could
grow as tall and thick as tree trunks
while six brother never ever became too
hot no matter how hard he worked under
the Summer
Sun as for seventh brother he was the
baby of the family and all of his six
brothers older brothers Tred to keep him
smiling and happy
for he was their youngest brother and
when he was unhappy he wept great big
warm salt tears and each tear was large
enough to drown an entire Village the
Seven
Brothers lived very happily together and
seventh brother never once had anything
to cry about but one day as they worked
on their Hillside first brother lifted
his head and with his amazing ears on
either side of it he said I can hear
such a moaning and groaning 100 miles Away
by A Great Wall of China second brother
take a look and tell me what all the
trouble is about second brother turned
his farseeing eyes toward the Great Wall
Ai ya he cried there’s an enormous hole in
the Great Wall of China I see a hundred
poor men working working day and night
night and day they look so tired and
weak perhaps they are not allowed to
sleep or eat until a hole in the Great
Wall of China is repaired Ai ya I can’t
bear it cried seventh brother who was
always hungry himself he looked as if he
might begin to cry in sympathy with the
poor hardworking men don’t cry said
third brother quickly I’ll go
and help them off he went as quickly as
he could and he got there in half a
minute less than no time he set to work
at once tossing great
stones from one hand to the other as if
they were feathers by the time Darkness
came the hole was completely filled and
then third brother lay down to take
a
nap but when the emperor heard that a
single man had repaired the hole in one
afternoon he was not at all grateful
indeed he looked very worried a man as
power powerful as this is more trouble
than he’s worth thought the emperor to
himself strong men can be very useful to
an emperor but this one is too strong
one Army may not be enough to catch him
I’d better send
two when third brother woke up from his
nap he found himself surrounded by two
armies by the command of the celestial
Emperor whose face is more dazzling than
the Rising Sun you are to be executed in
the morning proclaimed the generals of
the two armies take the prisoner to the
Palace of the emperor they ordered when
he heard this third brother burst into
tears a 100 miles away on the beautiful
Hillside first brother heard third
brother crying third brother must be in
trouble he explained second brother
looked far into the distance Ai ya third
brother has been taken to the Palace
he’s surrounded by two armies they are
going to execute him in the morning no
wonder he is
crying don’t worry cried fourth brother
who saw the seventh brother was about to
cry too I will change places with him
the celestial Emperor whose face is more
dazzling than the Rising Sun can try
cutting off my head as many times as he
likes perhaps that will make him feel
better off he went as quickly as he
could and he got there in half a minute
less than no time he sneaked in between
the two armies to third brother who was
wide awake and waiting for him so third
brother went home and fourth brother
took his place all the next day the
officers of the two armies tried over
and over again to behead fourth brother
but sword after sword bent and broke on
his bones of iron in the end they were
forced to confess to the mighty Emperor
whose whisper was like the Rumble of
Thunder that they simply could not
behead their
prisoner a man with bones of iron roared
the mighty Emperor drown in the deep sea
tomorrow when fourth brother heard that
he was to be drowned he became very
upset bones of iron won’t Bend or Buckle
or break but they will sink he thought
to himself and he burst into
tears 100 miles away on the beautiful
Hillside first brother heard fourth
brother began to cry fourth brother is
crying he said second brother looked
into the distance far beyond the hills
and said Ai ya tomorrow morning they are
going to drown fourth brother no wonder
he is crying don’t worry fourth brother
fifth brother interrupted I will change
places with him the mighty Emperor whose
whisper is like the Rumble of Thunder
can try to drown me as many times as he
likes perhaps that might make him feel
better off he went as quickly as he
could and got there in half a minute
less than no time he tiptoed past the
guards to Fourth brother who was awake
and waiting for him swiftly they
switched places and fourth brother went
home all the next day the soldiers of
the two armies tried to drown fifth
brother they threw him into the deep sea
but his legs grew so quickly the water
only came up to his knees they tried
throw him into the deeper water but the
deep deep water only just reached as far
as his waist
finally they threw him into the deepest
part of the sea but even the deepest
part of the sea only came up to his neck
waves broke under his
chin ah said fifth brother smiling
happily how lovely and cool is the
deepest seawater of
all he is more dangerous than I imagine
muttered The Splendid Emperor whose merest
glance was like a flash of lightning he
won’t drown but he might burn into the
fire with him tomorrow morning he
commanded
when he told when he was told his fate
fifth brother burst into tears far away
on the beautiful Hillside first brother
heard fifth brother’s cries second
brother looked right across the 100
miles to the Great Wall of China Ai ya he
cried tomorrow morning they’re going to
burn fifth brother alive no wonder he’s
crying don’t worry said sixth brother
afraid that seventh brother might begin
to cry too I will take his place The
Splendid Emperor whose merest glance is
like a flash of lightning can bake me
all day long if he likes he said with a
shiver perhaps that will make him feel
better off he went as quickly as he
could and got there in half a minute
less than no time he tiptoed in between
the two armies and found fifth brother
who was awake and waiting for him so
fifth brother went home and sixth
brother took his
place the next day the two armies ran
back and forth bringing kindling wood
Brushwood and Driftwood and bundles of
Dried grass they built such a big fire
that the smoke from it drifted from one
end of China to the other the six
brother Never Ever Felt too hot Basking
In The Heat Of The Blaze he sighed with
happiness how kind of the noble Emperor
to let me warm myself in his very own
fire he
cried no Emperor whose slightest frown
made the Land shake like an
earthquake was Furious send for the
Royal archers he ordered and the morning
will shoot this man full of arrows sixth
brother burst into
tears over on the beautiful Hillside
first brother heard sixth brother crying
second brother he asked what do you see
Ai ya cried the second brother tomorrow
morning they’re going to shoot sixth
Brother full of arrows the brothers
looked at each other there’s nothing for
it said first brother we cannot leave
sixth brother to die alone we will all
go to the noble Emperor whose slightest
frown makes the land Shake Like An
Earthquake he can shoot arrows through
all of us at least we will be
together the brothers started their
Journey to the Palace but poor seventh
brother was so upset that he couldn’t
help crying just a little his first tear
was as big as the longest river in China
rolled to a single drop his second tear
was as big as the second longest river
both tear were as salty as the sea a
great ocean of warm salt water swept
down the road ahead of the brothers it
swept on for a 100 miles seventh
Brother’s first tear swept one Army
North his second tear swept the other
Army me
South as far as the emperor he was
tossed so high and so far that he is
still trying to return to his Palace
seventh Brothers flood of Tears swept
over the Great Wall of China float all
the way out into the Yellow Sea and all
the way back again in half a minute less
than no time sixth brother was free he
hurried back up the road while his six
wonderful brothers hurried down the road
they were reunited at the great wall fish
cried fifth brother the wave had washed
hundreds of glistening fishes ashore
there they were flipping and flapping
piled all the way up to his knees wood
cried third brother Gathering a forest
to start a
fire fourth brother snapped his iron
finger and his iron thumb a spark leaped
out to set the fire blazing and
crackling fire he cried laughing oh I’m
so hungry said seventh brother now that
we are all together again we can have
dinner and forget our troubles I promise
never to try to cry again unless I
absolutely must so the Seven Chinese
Brothers sat themselves down around the
warm fire and feasted on delicious fried
fish for after such a worrying week they
were all very very
hungry
the end
have a blessed day
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