6 Chinese 8-year olds may now believe this is the legend of Easter

Class: "It's about Jesus, we already know that!"

Mr. Kevin: "Nooo, Easter is not about Jesus. Do you guys know what the world really looked like 5,000 years ago?"

Class: "......uh..."

Mr. Kevin: "Five thousand years ago, things were a bit different than they are today. Things were bigger. Plants, garbage cans, houses. Rabbits. They were the size of people" <cynical expression of disbelief washes over class> "and they ruled the world."

"The rabbits, for as long as they could remember, had their run of things, lazing away the days, eating grass peacefully. One day, arriving on their shores were these birds--they couldn't fly, they had these weird feet--"

Class: "Chickens!"

Mr. Kevin: "--and they were interested in more space to grow their chicken kingdom bigger and bigger. The rabbits didn't like this, they wanted their homes to themselves, to live in peace. But the chickens were having none of it. A war began that lasted for many years" not
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"After many years of fighting, the rabbits had had enough and they decided to do something drastic. They--"

Nancy: "What's 'drastic'?"

Mr, Kevin: "Something really really BIG. They figured that, what's the best way to get rid of the chickens? We could kill them, but that's way too crazy. Hey, how about we took at the chicken babies?! Then there won't be any more chickens to fight.

"So late one night, the rabbits crept into the chicken's camp, and stole all of these huge eggs. At that time, chickens were pretty big, right? So that was no small thing stealing thousands of eggs bigger than basketballs!

"The rabbits felt bad about stealing all their eggs. They were peaceful animals and they felt like they had no choice. 'Hey, this isn't us,' said the rabbit leader. 'We can't do this.'

"Instead of rolling the eggs into the sea as they had planned, the rabbits ran around the glen and gather flowers and petals of every kind--red ones, blue ones, yellow and green. They threw them into big, boiling pots of water, and soon their were these big pots of color into which they dipped all the eggs.

"Back at the chicken camp, they went to bed heartbroken. But the next morning, in the middle of camp, there was a pile of colored eggs 5 stories high. 'Our babies!' they shouted.

"The rabbit commander shook hands with Captain Chicken, and the war was over. We commemorate that day, every year, by coloring Easter eggs, celebrating the peace between rabbits and chickens."

Bob: "But what happened to rabbits and chickens? Why are they so small today?"

Mr. Kevin: "Good question. People came along. We had big sticks, then we had axes and tools for fighting with the animals that the rabbits and chickens didn't have. So what's the only thing they could of have done? Only thing to do was hide--under the ground, under the house, wherever. Slowly, evolution selected for the smallest chickens and rabbits."