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The origin of 300 words in Lingbao's composition

My hometown is Shangqiu, Henan. I have a legend about the origin of Shangqiu.

A long time ago, without fire, people had to eat raw food. Later, due to weather reasons such as thunder and lightning, a natural fire was formed. The torches, plants and wild animals were burned to death before they could escape, so people picked them and ate them, and found that cooked food was much more delicious than raw food. From then on, as long as lightning killed plants and wild animals, people came to grab cooked food to eat.

Soon, people learned to make their own fires and put food on the fire to eat.

Once, when Di ku (the name of the ancient Emperor Ku) and his son Wei Xiao were patrolling the people, he found that people in one place still ate raw food. Di Ku asked them why they didn't eat cooked food, and the people there said, "There have been several fires, sometimes because the floods washed them away;" Sometimes it is because there is not enough firewood that the fire cannot continue. So Di Ku ordered Wei Xiao to be the local "fire officer". This place became a fief for Wei Xiao, with the title "Shang".

After Quiber was sealed here, he worked hard for the fire all day, too busy to eat and sleep well. First, he led the people to start a fire from a distance, tried to build a mound, put the fire on the mound, and built a bunker on it, so that the rain in the sky could not put out the fire, and the flood in the river could not put out the fire. Then, he personally led people everywhere to find firewood. Thanks to Wei Xiao's wisdom and hard work, the people of Shang can not only make fires everywhere, but also keep them burning for a long time. Everyone is grateful to Wei Xiao, saying that he is a fairy from heaven and has come to benefit the people.

Later, after Quiber died, people missed him very much. As long as I think of him, I add a bag of soil to his grave, and gradually, the mound is getting bigger and bigger. Because Kuiba's title is Shang, this mound is called Shangqiu. After a long time, "Shangqiu" has become the place name here until now.