New Tales of the Gobi Desert
SKH Yuen Chen Maun Chen Jubilee Primary School Pri Sch, Wong Lok Yee Koe, Fiction: Group 2
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any, many years ago, there was a happy, wealthy and beautiful place called Paradise.
All people lived there were as same as immortals and fairies, they knew how to
enjoy themselves. Day after day, they became selfish, they did not know how to
cherish water, food, animals or plants. When they cooked too much, they preferred
to throw them away rather than to give them to the animals to eat. The animals always felt
hungry. When they were bored, they captured the animals and pressed them to trick such as
monkeys dressed up in silly clothes and to have fun from the animals. Sometimes, they targeted
the animals by guns to make them frightening until the animals were crying then they laughed
at the animals. The people were indifferent to the animals’ feeling. They were so cruel. Not only
the animals, even the plants, when the plants could not bloom, they would cut them down and
burn them up.
Over quite a long time, the people’s evil behavior had heard by the God of Heaven, the God
was so angry of their insidious, so he gave them a punishment which was the horrible lightning
occurred simultaneously for a long period and directly struck to the earth, but the people did not
afraid of that, even though some plants were burned up, they still continued their evil tricks,
they pushed the animals out and the animals had been struck by lightning and died, the people
felt excited and happy. The God thought that the people were incorrigible. Therefore he gave them
another harsh and unforgiving punishment again.
One midnight, all people lived in Paradise had the same nightmare which they dreamed the
God of Heaven was floating in the sky and said to them, “This is a punishment for you due to
your evil behaviors of wastage of food, wastage of water, destroyed the plants and animals abuse,
I have give all of you the chance to correct but no one repent the offenses. That is why you all
will be punished. It is too late to regret now!” After the nightmare, all people woke up and they
knew that which was not a nightmare, it was a fact, then they got away and they all wanted to get
out of inferno to have survival chance. Suddenly, the sky turned into black, a furious storm was
coming, howling wind, driving rain, the rocks were rolling down from the mountains, all plants
were withering, the jungles were burning, all the lakes and rivers were in arid, all things were in
a terrible situation. The people in Paradise were so scared, they ran and ran and ran……….. When
some of the people were looking back, they saw the thunder and lightning were shocking behind
them. Suddenly, there was gloom above and darkness below, the fierce wind whiled the sand
high up to the sky then over the whole Paradise, sand destroyed the beautiful and wealthy city.
The climate was disgusting. Some people of Paradise were die of frost at night, others were die of
overheat in daytime. Paradise became a ghost town, no one can be alive.
Some years later, there were a lot of people migrated from other places as their living area
was overcrowded, and lack of arable land for live hood then they became the pioneers of that
wasteland. When they moved there, they realized that there was not a farmland but there was
suitable for some livestock, such as sheep and goats. Then the people settled down there and
developed their community. They all had heard the terrible legend, and they took the legend as
a good lesson, they were hardworking, modest and friendly. They named this community “Gobi
Desert”. “Gobi” means no plant can be grown, there is waterless. “Desert” means a place covered
