Do you know how rice first came to China? There is an old Chinese story. It is about a little girl 1 went out to fish. There was a famine (饥荒) and everybody was very 2.
The little girl felt her net growing heavy and was very happy. 3, it was the King of Frogs that she caught. When the frog knew the girl wanted 4 to eat, the frog promised 5 her. The frog let her hold out her fishing net to the 6 and he would sing a magic song. The little girl 7his instructions. She was greatly surprised to see the sunshine falling8the net. And it was changed into golden grains (谷粒) of rice. The first rice was thought to arrive 9 this way.
We do not know 10 this story is true or not, but it tells us that rice has the 11 value as gold to the Chinese. Rice is always the main food for the Chinese. For 12, much land has been devoted (奉献) to rice—planting and many Chinese people are 13. They work very hard for each grain.
Waste can bring lots of problems. Although China is 14 in some resources (资源), we are short of others. In some other parts of the world, people even don't have enough food to eat. It's important to 15 food and say no to waste. Waste can be stopped if we do our best.
