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Jing Wei said to be next Chinese Goddess after Susanoo (Datamining).

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Information:
Jing Wei (simplified Chinese:精卫 traditional Chinese:精衛) is a bird in Chinese mythology, transformed from the daughter of Yandi named Nüwa
(different from the goddess Nu Wa the guardian of heaven who created mankind and repaired the heavens).

"Jingwei Filling the Sea" 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 "little girl"). 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'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.

After she drowned when playing in the Eastern Sea, she metamorphosed into a bird called Jingwei. Jingwei is determined to fill up the sea, so she continuously carries a pebble or twig in her mouth and drops it into the Eastern Sea. She would hold stones and tree branches with her beak and throw them into the sea, crying the sound of "jingwei, jingwei...", as if encouraging herself. She kept filling up the sea year after year without stop.

Jingwei has a dialogue with the sea where the sea scoffs her, saying that she won't be able to fill it up even in a million years, whereupon she retorts that she will spend ten million years, even one hundred million years, whatever it takes to fill up the sea so that others would not have to perish as she did. From this myth comes the Chinese chengyu idiom "Jingwei Tries to Fill the Sea" (精卫填海).

Later, the story of "Jingwei Filling the Sea" became one of the most important Chinese myths. It's widely considered as a symbol of dogged determination and perseverance in the face of seemingly impossible odds.

Professor Manyuan Long of the University of Chicago named a Drosophilia gene after Jingwei because it is - like the princess - 'reincarnated' with a new function and a new appearance (structure). Other related genes were named following the legend.

Source: wikipedia

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