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How are the myths of the past relevant to the present?

The Bridge to China

CHAPTER

The Myth of Johnny Appleseed

In China, a man named he was the one who finally dealt with all the flooding and found an effective way of dealing with the flooding. Instead of building dams, he studied the geography, how the water flows and, you know, the altitude of different places. So he what he did was to dig like canals and other ways of letting the water out to let it flow in a natural course. And these are the heroes that we respect and we've been respecting and honoring for, I don't know, a couple of thousand years.

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