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The Legend of the Yellow Emperor, Congier
Congean, you can probably guess where the word congi comes from. But let me tell you the legend of him. It's taken a long time, i'm sorry. So he eup in the sky and he saw phoenix. The phoenix had something in his beak. And on this thing that phoenix dropped was the imprint of, like, a animal’s hoof,. That's what they're called. Not a whole animal's body, not a whole animals' body. Feen. I don't know how big phoenixes are, but, yes, they couldn't do that a so so he didn't knowwhat animal it was.
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