Drilling Wood to Make Fire

According to talks during ancient times, far far away in the west was a country called Tooklight.  This place was too far away that the sun and the moon could not shine on it; one could it as cannot see sky cannot see day or cannot tell day from night.

Tooklight had a big tree named Tookwood; this tree's circle had a surface area of ten thousand mu*.  According to findings, at Tooklight one could not see the light from the sun nor the moon, in addition, this gigantic tree also created a huge blockage.  Naturally, it was completely black everywhere.  In reality, it was not like this.  Below the big tree was bright and illuminating beautiful fire everywhere, bright as precious pearl and shiny as stones of gems; it shone across all four like a white canvas.  The people of, the cannot see sky and day, Tooklight relied on this fire to live.

One day a smart person was traveling and came to Tooklight.  He saw this weird scenery which struck his curiosity and decided to investigate.  This person was determined to learn the source of this fire light.

He discovered that there was a type of big bird with black back, white belly and sharp bird paws; it jumped from trees to trees scavaging for insects to eat; at times, it acted like a woodpecker and harshly pecked with its hard peak on the dry tree, each peck emitted a bright colourful firelight.

This smart person saw this image and was inspired; he suddenly thought perhaps using a hard object to drill against wood would generate fire.  And so, he picked up a hard wooden stick and began drilling it against Tookwood which resulted in some fire sparks.  Unfortunately, there were only sparks and no fire.

After returning to his home country, he continued to study and tested with other woods.  Although drilling wood was very tiring, he eventually managed to drill out the fire.  From that moment on, people no longer needed to rely on thunder and lighting as the fire ignition nor did they need to carefully stand guard to protect the blazing fire from blowing out.  Having obtained the method to start a fire, the usage of fire grew.

This smart person invented the method of drilling wood for fire and was admired by the people that came after him.  They call him "Mr. Fire" or fire controller.

*If this translator is reading the Chinese dictionary correctly (all written in Traditional Chinese), Mu is China's measurement for the surface area of land.  One mu is equivalent to sixty square feet. One English mu is four eight four zero square miles.