Shang Vin the Priest of Ancient China

Shang Vin the Priest of Ancient China

By Louis Miyata, Thienuy Tran, Rhobbe Martin

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473 BC Zhou dynasty, Ancient China

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Everything started horribly. There was a couple that was holding their child in their hands. They were crying intensely because they committed a crime and were to be executed. In the hands of the woman was a baby crying. The woman slowly put the baby on the ground as the man ran away. The woman follows.

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After a day a priest from the local Taoist church found the baby in the streets. He took the baby and brought the baby to the church. With a lot of convincing by the priest, he got to keep the baby but he had to be the only one caring for it. The church had to announce that the baby was an orphan. The baby was named Shang Vin.

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457 BC
Zhou dynasty, Ancient China

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As Shang grew up, the priest got older and more frail. The priest had taught Shang everything about Taoism. When he grew, the children near the Gong started bullying him because he was an orphan. This made Shang different from the children nearby, and the children assumed that it was ok to pick on him for this reason.

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Shang was a calm person so he did not fight back or tell the priest.
That was about to come to an end. He walked into the preist's room and saw him lying on the ground. He called out for all the other preists but he was ignored. He had to carry the preists body out of the room until another preist saw the comotion. It was too late, the priest died.

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Choice:
He runs away from the church-page 3
or
He stays at the church-page 5

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457 BC
Zhou dynasty, ancient china

Shang Vin gives up on all hope. He runs into a narrow road in a forest. He suddenly starts crying because no one came to help the priest. All this crying is making him very thirsty and he needs a drink. He thinks:

Should i go back?

Choice:
Run back to the church-page 6
or
Runs deeper into the forest-page 4(next page)

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457 BC
Zhou dynasty, Ancient China

He continues to run deeper into the forest and finds a bright spot. He runs towards the spot in hopes for water. He instead, found a temple with 2 guys wearing a long and colourful and bright robe.

He walks towards the two men and asks for water. They took him inside the temple where he got to drink some cold water. He feels fresh and relieved.

He thanks the two men and asked them "What is this place?" to which one guy replied "This is a Gong (Taoist temple)". Shang was in relief because he was practicing Taoism for a while. Shang shared his taoist beliefs with them. The two priests were astonished and brought him deeper into the temple. "Do you want to live here?" they asked. Shang knew there had to be some kind of trade so he asked them. They replied that in order for them to give him a home Shang had to be a priest at the temple.

Accept -PAGE 7 or Deny-PAGE 8

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457 BC
Zhou dynasty, Ancient China

On the day the priest died Shang broke and ran into the bedroom. He stayed in the bedroom and cried for a long time. The next day he continued to get bullied. This happened every day over the span of a year. He built up so much anger and he had no hope left. He felt so depressed that he stabbed himself and dies.

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As he continued crying, he became dehydrated. And because he was desperate he runs back. When he turns back he sees a fork in the pathway. He chooses to turn left and continues following the long pathway. Instead of finding the church, he gets very lost and worried. He still tries to find the church. After several days, he died due to starvation and dehydration.

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He accepts the offer and gets to live in the temple as a priest. He shares his past how he was taught and bullied. The people did not discriminate against him for being an orphan. He was amazed that he still believes in Taoism after all the pain he went through.
Because of his past and how he's still in tact, he grew up and studied to be a priest known throughout the Zhou dynasty.

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