Once upon a time there was a beautiful yet spoiled princess. She is the Jade princess. Being proud of her name, she decides she should have the most beautiful and precious jade in the world. Merchants from all over the globe arrived with beautiful stones with them, yet none can impress her. She rejected stone after stone, and ordered them to be disposed in the river. One day, a merchant dressed in torn rags came to the palace. The Jade Princess did not see how that merchant could impress her. But the small merchant presented her with the most perfect Jade ever. It was smooth like a mirror. It was the Jade of Truth. It could show the true face of anyone who looked into it. As the Jade princess looked into it, what reflected out was a lonely, selfish person. Five tears fell, and they turned to precious stones. She gave the stones to the merchant who revealed her true self.
Then after, she was never the same. She had turned to a good person. She became kind and generous. And she often spoke of the discarded stones, left in the river.
Globalization and Sustainability: It teaches the lesson of being good, which is important if we want to save our planet. The five stones, though not very detailed in the story, actually represent friendship, which is interconnectedness.
Effective connections to our themes and I like your use of one of our unit’s keywords – interconnectedness 🙂
These are all Chinese myths, but your myth does not have connections with modern China city.https://mushroom-scholars.org/group_page/hou-yi-shooting-the-suns-and-tangshan-hot-spring-nanjing-mythlocal-myths-by-joy/