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       Long long ago, there was a big scary monster called “nian” (year).

All people were afraid of it. It came out from mountains on Chinese New Year’s Eve. So people in the village didn’t come out of their houses on Chinese New Year’s Eve. Someone who had seen nian said it had red skin, long teeth, a large body, and a short tail. And its face was very scary. No matter children, adults or olders, everyone was afraid of it.

One day, a clever old man came to the village. He heard about nian from local people. He thought, ‘I must expel nian out of there.’ Then, he decided to live in the village.

Ron, USTKid, 2018

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Once upon a time, there was a tribe. This tribe had lost many fights, so it became more and more indigent.

One day, they found a big dragon in a cave. This dragon had blue and orange stripes on his body. His eyes were green. It looked very valiant. They wanted it very much. So they asked the dragon for help, and they gave the dragon the last of their resources. The dragon thought they were very kind, so he promised to help them.

The war started again. The dragon could breathe flames and fly high, so the tribe finally won. They thanked the dragon and the dragon gave them many resources for reward; then he flew away.

Tony, USTKid, 2018

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Today, I will talk about a folk tale called the foolish monkey. It is about a monkey who is fooled by a fox.

Once upon a time, there was a monkey. He was liked by other animals. The fox didn’t like the monkey. He wanted to fool the monkey. He made a trap and put some bananas on the trap. He said to the monkey that there were some bananas. The monkey went to the trap and was in it. The fox laughed at him.

The folk tale is over; do you like it？

Raymond, USTKid, 2018

The Goose and the Golden Eggs

Long long ago, there was a farmer. He always dreamed of having a lot of money. But he never did any hard work.

One day, the farmer found a goose on his way to the market. Someone must have lost this goose, he thought; maybe I will take care of the goose from this moment. Besides, I can have some goose eggs every day. So the farmer brought the goose to his house.

The first thing he did when he woke up the next day is checking the goose’s nest. To his great surprise, he found an egg, and it was an egg of pure gold. The farmer went to the market and sold the golden egg. He got lots of money. Much more than the one he made by hard work. He was never so delighted.

From then on, the same thing happened every morning. And he soon became rich by selling his eggs. The farmer became more and more greedy. He wanted to get all the golden eggs at once, so he killed the goose, but when he looked inside the goose, he found nothing in its body. Soon, the farmer became poor again.




Joan, USTKid, 2018

The Fox and the Crow

Once upon a time, a crow got a piece of meat. The crow stood on the branch with the meat in his mouth. A fox came by when the crow was going to eat the meat. The fox wanted to eat the meat too, so the fox thought of a cunning plan. The fox said to the crow, ”You are so beautiful and clever, I like you very much.”The  crow smiled but the meat nearly fell off from his mouth. The fox continued to flatter the crow; ”You have a lovely voice, can you sing a song for me?” The crow opened his mouth and began to sing, then the meat fell off from his mouth. The fox seized it quickly and ran away. The crow did not have any meat to eat.

The story tells us that we should not believe the sweet words by the malicious people.

 Elsa, USTKid, 2018

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The Rabbit and the Turtle

          Once upon a time, there was an animal village. In the village there was a fast rabbit. He loved to boast about his running, he was really proud too.

      One day, Rabbit was still boasting about his running to his friends; then one animal stood up, and said, ”if you're so fast, lets have a race to prove it!” Rabbit looked who had spoken to him. It was Turtle, his new neighbor, Turtle only moved in yesterday. Now, Turtle was very impressed by Rabbit, but he had a way about boasting.

      Rabbit sneered, ”I accept your challenge snail speed. And by the by, we all know that you are no faster then a snail!” But Turtle was already gone.

        The day had come, but Rabbit was still sleeping! He thought that turtle would never win in his slow speed, but to Rabbit’s surprise, Turtle won. Turtle said to Rabbit, ”Steady wins the race my friend, it always does.”

       This story tells us never boast, and remember steady wins the race.

    Daisy, USTKid, 2018

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Journey to the West

Once there was a man called Tang Monk and Tang Monk had a great adviser, the adviser was called Monkey King, and there were two soldiers too, but they were on a mission, they wanted to go to the west and go get some gold, they have to go to the west and one day they were so tired from walking in the desert. Even though Tang Monk  didn't even need to walk, he could feel the other people walking so he could feel tired as well.

Then they finally got to the west and they asked: “oh, please, great god, give us some gold that we seek, then the god asked, do you have any Facebook? Then he looked at Monkey King and shook his head, then the god asked, do you have any QQ? Monkey King again turned his head no, then the god said, then I'd better use the APP that I had called. Called it the things that you used to text people. He texted  them gold, isn’t this the gold that you desired? then Monkey King said, ah, this is not the gold that we meant.

Then, the god asked, then what kind of gold do you want anyway? Then Monkey King told the god what kind of gold they wanted. That's golden and you can touch it, and it seems you know silvery and shiny, don't you know that kind of gold? Aren't you the god? you must know this kind of things right? Then god said then I'll just use the APP and give you some gold, well not that easy; then Monkey King said, just give us the gold already. But the god just already sent them some gold onto their phones. Then Monkey King gave up and said with a sigh, okay, great gold, but you still don't know what we mean or the gold that we want; after he finished talking, the god already knew what was going on, so the god said, oh I know what kind of gold you want, then he gave the gold that they want and their two soldiers saw the gold; they both wanted to extinguish a river and cried themselves out another river. 
 Tiffany, USTKid, 2018

The Rabbit and the Turtle

I have read “the Rabbit and the Turtle”. I think it is a funny folk tale, so I like it very much.

It is about a rabbit and a turtle having a running race. First, lots of animals came to the Autumn Athletic Meeting. Then, the rabbit said “Let’s have a race” to the turtle. The turtle replied, “OK!” Next, they started the race. At first, the rabbit ran very fast, but after that the rabbit went to a big tree and fell asleep. Because the rabbit has fallen asleep, the turtle walked and walked. But when the turtle almost got to the finish line, the rabbit woke up and started to run again. Finally, the turtle got to the finish line. Everybody cheered.

This folk tale tells us a truth; it is that conceit makes one lag behind, modesty makes people progress.

Angela, USTKid, 2018