The seven sisters and their death

(recounting historical myth)

All was well in China, or so would have thought. But many did not know about the event that took place one find afternoon in the garden of Tsat Tsz Mui village. Here is a recount of a mythical story about a girl and her sworn sisters.

It may have been a pleasant day for the city folks, scholars making their way up the stony stairs towards their entrance exams. Yes, even in those days they had to sit for exams to qualify for the court magistrate's chair. It was not easy. There were many suicide reports in China and most came from depressed scholars. But none would ever come about the seven sisters who took their life.

In all her life, the third of the seven sister, Sun, was an obedient child. She was the only daughter of an old couple. Her parents, not having any son, was worried that Sun will forever be alone and no husband to care for her. 

Sun was out in the gardens with her friends one day, who she had befriended since toddler. They have made a pact to always stay together no matter in what circumstances and to always remain virgins, bath in their glory of youth.

But while she was out, Sun's parents had a private meeting with the town's matchmaker. Her job was to find a suitable candidate to be Sun's future husband who is able to carry on Sun's family business. And she did found one very suitable choice, for she was really good at her profession that none of her clients ever say no to her.

"Sun, come here! We have found a handsome man for you," said the mother upon seeing Sun's face appearing at the doorway.

"What man?! What ever for?" Sun replied.

"Your marriage! It is time we see to it that you move out," came the father. During ancient times, it was a tradition for the girls in the house to get married upon their coming of age. It is still practiced that the girls were to leave the house of her parents to be one with the husband, in this case, to move out of the parent's care.

"Really? When?"

"At the break of dawn, on the first day of the seventh month," said the mother, "You will be the most beautiful bride in this entire village!"

Sun may have been an obedient daughter, but she had her own desires, and not the mention the vow she took with her sworn sister were not a play thing.

"They have arranged everything, the dress, the veil, the shoes, even the bed covers are a match," Sun said to her sisters gathered around her.

"You dont have to go through it... You didnt agree to it did you?"

"Sun is too good of a daughter to go against her parents wish... you know that dont you"

"We could run away!" came a suggestion.

"But where to? If we were to run away, the word 'marriage' could just come back for any one of us... and what then?" said Sun"

"Something permanent, that way we will forever be together and nothing, not even our parents can separate us."

Sun looked towards the edge of the waterfall. Her sisters follow suit. They all had the same thought. Death. That was the only way out.

"It is up to you, you are our sister after all, and we will always be with you" said the eldest sister. Sun looks at her and the other sisters that was gathered around here. She nodded. The decision was made that day, a day before the wedding was suppose to take placed.

That was the last that anyone heard back about the seven sisters. Some said they turned into statues at the lower parts of the waters. Others believed it was seven black boulders. No one knows, but something still hunts the place to this very day.

On that day, at the edge of Tsat Tsz Mu waterfall, the seven sisters all agreed in one accord to disappear. Holdings hands to make sure they would never again be separated, and remain forever pour from the touch of men. There was no sign of their existence thereafter. Questions of whether they are still together, remaining faithful to their vows remains unanswered. 

But one thing is for sure, that no matter where they are right now, they never leave each other alone. Somehow or rather they always find their way back to each other, just as it was fated for two soul mates bump into each other.