Near the Huaihe River, there is a legend that the goddess fills the sky. There is a mountain that is not around it. It turned out to be a Tianzhu, with the upper end bearing the Tianhe River. Later, the mountain collapsed, and there was a hole in the sky, from which the water of Tianhe flowed. For a time, the rainstorm continued and the flood was terrible. People are in danger of extinction.
Nu Wa thought that the disaster would not stop until the pit was filled. I salvage five-colored stones from rivers, lakes and seas. She burned the stone and then used it to mend the hole in the sky piece by piece. The rain stopped, the sun came out, and colorful clouds appeared in the sky. These clouds were made of colored stones.
There is no leakage now, but there is still flood on the ground. Nu Wa took a rectangular ruler and measured the flood. She asked people to lead floods from highlands to depressions, from depressions to rivers, and from rivers to the East China Sea. This river is the Huaihe River, because it was opened with a tribe. This is the story of Nu Wa governing the Huaihe River. There is also a legend about Nu Wa governing the Huaihe River. The Huaihe River basin overflowed for some reason, and Nu Wa opened the Huaihe River with divine power, which led the flood into the East China Sea and solved the flood problem.
After the flood, Nu Wa taught people to weave nets with ropes to hunt. She also invented bows and arrows to make hunting easier. People no longer have to throw stones at wild things. There are still some birds and animals that can't be eaten up, so Nu Wa is kept by people. This began to have livestock. There is also a legend that Nu Wa made six animals. Six days before she made humans, she made pigs, dogs and other livestock.
Taken together, these two legends may record the history of Nuwa's teaching people to raise livestock. In other ethnic groups, there are also legends that men hunt more prey and women keep animals at home.
Later, Huaiyi merged with the Huaxia nationality in the Yellow River valley and gradually merged together to create the Chinese nation today.
This statement is consistent with the archaeological theory of the origin of cultural diversity. According to the archaeological findings of many cultural sites, civilizations have appeared one after another in China like stars.
After a certain period of development, these civilizations formed a scale and then influenced each other. Just as the jade cong in Liangzhu appeared in Sanxingdui civilization, the lines on the bronzes unearthed in Yinxu, Henan Province are similar to the bronze relics in Sanxingdui. Huaxia civilization is also gradually formed by the interaction and development of countless small civilizations. Among all civilizations, the civilizations in the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin have played a major role.
Although Fuxi Nuwa has legends in Gansu and Huaihe River basins, perhaps they are not from Tianshui, Gansu, nor Huaiyi. They may be the leaders of two places respectively, and in the process of civilization integration, they synthesized a person. In this way, two peoples far apart have a common ancestor. Of course, in this process, blood relationship is inevitable, so people in the two places do have the same ancestor.
Even today, Tianshui and Huaihe rivers in Gansu are thousands of miles away from Qianshan. But both places do have legends about Nu Wa Fuxi and the goddess mending the sky. The same legend about ancestors shows people the close relationship between the two places beyond people's imagination. The true historical truth can't be verified, but legends leave clues about the historical truth, attracting people to think and explore.