Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 197

The New Tales of Old Shanghai
Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten, Yeung, Yik Lam – 10
L
ong long ago, there was a little girl who was lost in the street in the old village. An old woman called Shania
saw the little girl and she built up empathy immediately. Shania brought the little girl back home and
named her Chinie. The villagers and Shania brought up little Chinie with love and care. On the Chinie’s
twelve-year-old birthday, Chinie shed some fairy dust from her forearm unintentionally. Those wise old
people in the village held a special gathering to discuss the issue and they had come to amazing conclusion that
Chinie was a fairy. At Chinie was the first and the only fairy in the country, people were excited and they gave
Shania money. They wanted to send Chinie to fairy academy to learn magic skills. As Shania was too old and too
weak to go with Chinie. Chinie had to go by her own. Twenty years later, Chinie had learned many magic
skills and she returned to village and looking for Shania. But, Shania had passed away because old age. Chinie
had to lived in her own castle on the sky alone, like other furies. Chinie remembered with gratitude those
people who help her, especially Shania. She made up her mind for helping the development of the old village.
She built a big town just next to the village and named it “Shanghai” (Shania – Hi) to remember her foster mother.
With the help of the power fairy, the whole country was being stronger and stronger. People renamed the
country “China” because of Chinie.
Nowadays, there are many people questioning the existence of Chinie. But, there were reports discovering
Chinie is real. The first person reported his discovery is a little boy called Peter. He saw Chinie while he was
playing his paper airplane with his friends, Sam and Emily. “I saw a lovely fairy in an old Chinese traditional
dress flied across in the sky. She helped me to bring my paper airplane back from a tree top. She told me her
name is Chinie.” Peter said to the reporter. “Sam and Emily saw her too!” He stressed. Another report was
made about six months later. A teenager, named Lucy, found Chinie during her hot air balloon ride with her
parents. “She is very lovely. She gave me sweets” Lucy said.
In order to prove the existence of Chinie, some reporters started “a fairy hunt”. They divided themselves into
three groups, searching Chinie on the sky, in the ocean and on the land. After several years of searching, a group
of reporters found Chinie’s castle on the sky and had an interview with her. They finally knew the story of
Shania and Chinie.