Fiction: Group 3
elephant had said and let them go away. Soon, this story was spread among the society of wind and water.
We decided to make a statue for them to memorise this. If you see the Elephant Trunk Hill carefully, you
will notice there were two acres, one is large enough to let a boat to pass through and the other is smaller
and is the entrance of a small cave, those are the foot of the elephants! The myths that you human were
saying were in fact not true!
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I have been to Hong Kong also. This place is quite special.
At the beginning of the world, it was in darkness. Hong Kong is the first place where we could see the
light, so we named it “facing the light”(i.e. “
向光
” in Cantonese). There was an traveller who knew our
language in the past. He got lost in a forest when he was travelling in Hong Kong. To find his way out, he
asked us what this place was called. We told him it is called “facing the light” (i.e. “
向光
” in Cantonese). I
guessed he listened the name wrongly as “fragrant harbour”.(i.e. “
香港
” in Cantonese). When he saw a
village, he told the locals that here was called “fragrant harbour”.(i.e. “
香港
” in Cantonese). The locals
thought it was a good name and kept this name.
The development of this place makes me feel very astonished. About a century before, it was just a
fishing village but it turned to an international financial city in just about 100 years. I always think it is a
legend.
I think human development are not bad and in fact, I like it but it is destroying the nature
continuously.
Long time ago, most of the people who lived near the river that I live in was farmers. They usually
take water from me and released domestic waste in me. As I have kind of mysophobia, I hate the feeling of
being mixed with mud in the fields and the domestic waste they dumped in me. But since animals have
existed on this planet, I did not stay clean anymore. When ape had evaluated into human a few thousand
years ago, there were more and more waste throw into me. They are not organic waste, but also some could
not be decomposed. Let’s talk about the agriculture waste first. Ever since you human started to use
pesticides and fertilizers and pesticides, my body become much dirtier than before.
Number of algae increases rapidly in the last few decades as the pesticides released to me provide
them favourable condition to live in. There were several serious blooms occurred in me. Those algae
scrambled the oxygen carried in me and fishes in me died one after another. I could even smell some
unpleasant given out from me! I cannot bet on it. Luckily, the disgusting algae were cleaned up at the end
but I do not know if they will appear again later.
Since there are factories set up along the coast, toxic substances like heavy materials and toxins are
thrown into me and this is a disaster. The food chain is being contaminated by those toxic substances. Fishes
died quantity of marine organisms in me decreased.
Do you know that there were crocodiles living with me in the Pearl River many years before? Can
you imagine that there were elephants living along the coast? Due to the development of your ancestors and
satisfaction of their desire of eating different kind of foods, crocodiles which lived in me before were all
hunted for food, elephants lost their habitat and moved away or died. In the development of human
activities, the balance between nature and economy is very important.
I am going on to a new journey now, I hope next time when I have a chance to share my story with
you, we can live in a better world. Bye!
