Hi I’m Jessica and I’m going to tell you about my trip to the Museum.

On the first of January this year my grandpa took me to the Ancient World Museum.

I saw Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece and even Ancient Egypt. My favorite is yet to come, don't ask me why its my favorite, it just is. My favorite is China.

I asked my grandpa if he would tell me a story about China.

“ Long ago, fare away in China there was a girl named Empress Zhen. Zhen was a curious girl and liked stories kind of like you.”

“Grandpa, stick to the story.” I said.

“Ok, Ok. Now where was I? Oh yes. One day Empress Zhen went to her ancestor’s temple. When she kneeled down to pray, she found an animal bone. It wasn’t any kind of bone it had writing on it. She took it home and tied it around her neck.

The next day she went to the park. She walked home with some other kids. They started to make fun of her bone. They said, “Zhen’s wearing a dead animal!” That made Zhen angry. That night Zhen cried on her pillow, then she wished they would stop doing that.(They’d been making fun of her for a while.)

The next day they didn’t make fun of her, they just stopped.

Every year there was a festival, that year the main activity was listening to a story teller. His story went like this:

On a warm spring day in Xia times, some children went out in the fields to play. In those days, if you had a problem you went to see the local wise woman. In this village the wise woman’s name was Loawnu. Alarmed at what they saw in the fields, the children ran up the hill to Loawnu’s house. “Loawnu,” they shouted “The sky is falling down!”. Loawnu smiled at the children. “Don’t worry. Find all the pieces and bring them to me. I will sew the pieces back together in time for the festival.”

The Spring festival was nearing . This was a time when the young people gather from many villages to meet one another and fined husbands and wives.

The children’s village had been honored this year as the meeting village. It would be a horrible time for the sky to be falling down.

The village would be disgraced! Off the children ran to pick up the pieces. But some were missing!

“ Loawnu !” Cried the children. As they tore up the hill, breathing heavily.

Loawnu only smiled.

The next day the children ran outside and looked up . the sky looked as it always did.

Zhen loved stories like that the one the man just read.

Zhen grew up to be a beautiful women. Men from all over came to see her. Men such as Yuan Shao, Yuan Xi witch where famous warriors. Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi a poet, all paid homage to to her charms.

When Yuan Shao captured the city of Wong he met Empress Zhen and immediately was determined to let his son Yuan Xi have her.

In 204,Cao Cao crossed the river and routed Yuan Shao’s army. The first thing he did was to send a guard into the city with orders to protect Empress Zhen.

Cao Cao wanted to have Empress Zhen to himself and was disappointed when he was told his son Cao pi had lift to go get her.

Before Cap Pi could claim her his brother Cao Zhi had already fell in love with her. But Cao Pi made shor he got his way.

They had a son who became Emperor Ming of Wei and then they had a daughter, Princess Dongxiang.

Empress Zhen and Cao Zhi met in secret many time and lamented over the tragedy of their separation. Eventually Cao Pi’s attention wandered and he found a new favorite Empress Guo.

Empress Zhen expressed her resentment over this matter openly. And her deceit is faction reached the ears of Cao Pi who ordered her to commit suicide.

At the same time grandpa finished the story the museum was closing.