Jingwei reclamation is one of the ancient myths and legends in China. According to legend, Jingwei was originally the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan Shennong, named Nuwa. One day, the girl visited the East China Sea and drowned. After his death, his uneven spirit became a bird with a flower head, a white shell and red claws. Every day, he brought stones and plants from the mountains and threw them into the East China Sea, and then let out a cry of "Jingwei, Jingwei", as if calling himself.

Based on different research perspectives, people divide the myth of "Jingwei Reclamation" into different myth types. Obviously, the myth of "jingwei filling the sea" belongs to a typical deformation myth, which belongs to the myth of "preserving health after death", that is, entrusting the soul to a substance that exists in reality. Not only that, "Jingwei filling the sea" also belongs to the myth of revenge. The girl had no resentment against the sea before her death, but she drowned unexpectedly, so she forged a hatred with the sea and became a lifelong revenge for the bird to recapture the sea.

Some researchers believe: "There are many typical unnatural deaths recorded in ancient myths in China, among which accidents let people see the weakness and powerlessness of ancestors in the face of nature, and also reveal the fragility of life." The death of the baby girl was an accident, which showed the fragility of human life and the strength of the sea. Mao Dun, a famous writer, thinks: "Jingwei and Xingtian belong to the same type of myth, both of which describe indomitable perseverance and will, and belong to the myth of birds and beasts with moral consciousness."