The Story of Diamond of Love
On September 23rd, 1987, a solar eclipse happened that day in a scenery site in southeast China, where the river was sobbing; cranes were moaning; clouds were crying; wind stopped her pace; the sun hided his face; stars appeared and wept, in a farewell for a young girl.
The young girl wrote in her diary, “I love cranes, love the great nature. Once go into the wildness, I forget all the unhappy things. I will look for ideals, friendship, and answer of life in the dancing and singing cranes in the endless wildness”.
The father did not take his daughter to their own home in the far northern China. He sacrificed by letting his love to rest with her love, the cranes.
The blue sky embracing clouds, a curved river embedded with thriving reeds, and a flock of cranes flying, a breeze of gentle wind singing songs, these were once the scenes in a story of a crane, a young girl and a pure love.
Countless times, the young girl was lingering around the waters and reeds, at the dawn, in the eve, day after day, and year after year. The cranes saw the girl’s figure in their marsh land home; clear stream washed away the footprints of love she left behind on the riverbank. Sailing over the water, melted in the beauty of nature, and looking after the cranes were the pure loves in her young life. Every night, stars waved her goodbye, wind sang songs with her and sent her home in numerous blue darkness.
But, at the particular night, no star could find her; and wind did not send her home. She devoted the love to her cranes, and melted in the waters where her love once floats. Cranes pose for her visiting; stars blink; wind pauses; water freezes, all longing for her figure. Will she ever be back?
She never leaves! Melted in the water, her love is flowing with the water; leaning on the tip of reeds, her love is waving to her cranes; in the ray of a setting sun, her love is dancing with her cranes; walking in star light and moonlight, her love is singing with the wind. Like a shooting star travelling in the space, she left a diamond of love for her cranes, and a beautiful song in the wind.
