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1958 that spring, there was a terrible drought no one could stop the earth from cracking open and spilling its shrivelled guts mice jumped out of rice jars not a single grain was harvested but so as not to make the higher-ups lose hope our considerate village headman sent people out night after night first to paint the ground ...

So I was reading a book, ''Bawshou Resecues the Sun'' to my daughter in the weekend and it occurred to me that this is yet another instance where soil appears in a significant folk story. ''Bawshou Resecues the Sun'' is based on a traditional Han Chinese story about the sun being stolen by the King of devils (variously, a powerful dragon). ...