When the rains fail and the rice fields begin to crack, nine-year-old Lian climbs beyond the red stones to find the ancient dragon who sleeps beneath the mountain.
What she discovers is not an angry beast, but a tired guardian whose strength has faded with the land itself. To bring water back to the village, Lian must help her people remember an old truth: the mountain does not exist only to serve them, and care must travel in both directions.
The Dragon Beneath the Mountain is a beautifully illustrated Taiwanese folktale about courage, kindness, respect for nature, and the power of one child to help an entire village remember what it has forgotten.