The Making of Myths

Vegetable Stuffing and Meat Stuffing

by Lu Dongzhi

One day an old woman prepared two kinds of stuffing, vegetable and meat, for making Jiaozi(dumpling).

The meat stuffing said to the vegetable stuffing 'You are nothing. Look at me. I am nutritious and the favorite of people. In every festival, I am the main role in the table.'

Hearing this, the vegetable stuffing said furiously 'We are no different. Vegetable is good for people's health and helps keep beauty. And people need us. What about you? After eating meat, people will be suffered from high pressure and high blood sugar. I am more nutritious than you.'

They kept fighting and the old woman said 'You are both right. But you should pay more attention to other's advantages and your disadvantages rather than other's shortcomings.'

Dumpling Brother

Zu Lei

One day night, dumplings were wrangling about who the Mr Big was in the dumpling world. One dumpling said:"I'm the biggest, I'm Mr Big"Every dumplings agreed with him but a smallest one, he said:"On what tenure are you Mr Big? " The biggest one said:" I'm the biggest in the world. If you breeded contempt, you could go your several way. "Then the smallest dumpling took a gang of dumplings to go west.

Very song, the biggest dumpling threw down the gauntlet to the smallest one. The smallest dumpling was in unrelenting and led his dumpling brothers with weapon in their hand to the ahead of the biggest one. The biggest was afraid and please the smallest:"Hold down please, I have a word with you, you want to be Mr Big. Let us have a chat over a bottle. " Althought they shook hands and made up at the end, the biggest dumpling ultimately led his troop to attack the smallest dumpling. The result was that the biggest dumpling failed utterly. But the smallest dumpling did not kill him, he said to the biggest dumpling:"We are brother, this is important, no mather who are Mr Big".