Gift

Stories with the Gift theme:

• The Legend of the Silk Worms Jan 21, 2025

  

  In the mountainous region of northern Vietnam, where mulberry trees grew wild on the terraced hillsides and morning mist danced through ancient forests, lived a young woman named Ti whose curiosity about the natural world was as boundless as the sky itself. Ti possessed an unusual gift—she could understand the language of insects and small creatures, hearing their tiny voices as clearly as human speech.

  Ti lived with her grandmother, Bà Ngoai, in a small village where the women were known throughout the region for their skill in weaving hemp and cotton into sturdy, practical cloth. Though their fabrics were well-made and useful, they lacked the beauty and elegance that marked the finest textiles, which could only be afforded by wealthy nobles from the cities far below their mountain home.