Long long ago, the Dragon King of the
Eastern Sea was left with no son and heir to succeed him. He had only a daughter
called “Princess Kavalan”. Because of the early death of his wife, Dragon King
doted on this only close relative very much. In Princess Kavalan, Dragon King
saw the living reincarnation of his wife .Furthermore, he doted her so much in
order to make up for his neglect of the family life in the past.
Dragon King wanted the Princess
Kavalan to study at the school for aristocrats and then to many her dragon
cousin, who is blue-blooded but foolish and dull. Nevertheless, Princess
Kavalan .would not do so. She chose to study at a school for common folks. Her
classmates varied in talent and virtue but remained lovable all the same. There
she met a fellow student who was a sea turtle named “Lu-sheng”. They fell in
love with each other. Yet the burgeoning love between the two different breeds
offended Dragon King, who believed that only the pure dragon breed had the
right to throne the king of the Eastern Kingdom.
Because of Dragon King’s opposition,
Princess and Lu-sheng eloped. They left the ocean and came to the dry land.
There they met the human being. They learned how to become and led a simple. Happy
life. Princess gave birth to a son and they named him “Ho-Ping”. It was not
until Dragon King discovered them that he mobilized all his cohorts to seize
them. The flood inundated the dry land. People absconded for surviving. Neither
the princess nor Lu-sheng could stand the sight of this, so they beg Dragon
King to appease the tidewater. Lu-sheng and Ho-ping were both transformed by
King’s magic wand into stone island, abandoned in the midst of the sea. One is
that we now called Turtle Mountain Island and the other one Hoping Island. The
enraged King also ordered the soldiers of shrimp and crab to shove the
fossilized Lu-sheng as far in the sea as possible.(This is why there is always an abundance of fish
and shrimp in the sea area between Lang yang Plain and the Turtle Mountain
Island)
Dragon King thought that he
regained his daughter with his mighty power. But the princess, with deep grief,
fetched out the Green Pearl that her deceased mother left for her and
transformed herself into a green plain, which is now we called Lang yang Plain.
The king regretted so much for all
what he had done. But it was too late. He lost his daughter. One day, he tossed
down his golden regal wand (which was transformed into the Golden Face Mountain on the Bei Yi
Highway)and
transformed himself into the range of mountains encircling Lang yang Plain. He
would never return to his Kingdom forever……
The sea waves keep lashing the
Plain, as if they were calling Princess Kavalan’s name. The princess, who
misses her husband and son every day and night and hope to keep them from
exposing to the wind and the sun, weaves straw hats for them.(so whenever we see clouds like a
bamboo hat covering the top of Turtle Mountain Island, we know it would rain
very soon). Meanwhile,
Princess cries when thinking of her beloved husband and son this is why Lang
yang Plain has such an abundance of rainfall every year.
When will the fossilized
Lu-sheng and Ho-ping be awaked and return to the life on the earth??When is the time for the family to reunite? |