There was no fire on the earth before. When people see the flames in the sky, they will be envious. They let swallows make a fire for them in the sky. Swallows agreed to people's demands and flew into the sky. At this time, people in the sky were cooking dinner. Swallows flew in through the skylight, with flames in their mouths, and ran away.
When the housewife who was cooking in the sky found out, she cut the swallow with scissors in her hand. As a result, the swallow's tail was cut off. Swallows fly back to the earth, giving people fire and bringing warmth. But the swallow's tail has become what it is today.
Step 2 strike a stone to make a fire
Legend has it that after chasing people to invent drilling wood for fire, by the time of the Yellow Emperor, humans had begun to cook food, keep warm, drive away poisonous insects and beasts and fight with fire. But at that time, people only knew how to use fire, but they couldn't put it out, which was very inconvenient for people who lived a nomadic hunting life.
One year, the Yellow Emperor moved from south to north with a group of people from Xia tribe. On the way, there was a sudden rainstorm and flash floods, and adults and children were drenched by rain. Zhu Rong was in charge of putting out the fire, and the fire he carried with him was put out. People were cold and hungry, and the children kept crying. The Yellow Emperor ordered everyone to stay in a big stone cave until it cleared up. It has been raining for several days.
People live in caves and endure hunger and cold. However, due to the loss of fire, it is impossible to make a fire to cook and keep warm. Hunger is unbearable, adults begin to eat raw meat, and old people and children want to soak mushrooms in cold water. Zhu Rong was anxious to drill wood for fire, but all the firewood he brought was wet. He drilled for a long time but didn't get out of Mars. In a rage, he threw away the drill in his hand.
Unexpectedly, the drill bit hit the rock in the cave, splashing more sparks. Zhu Rong's heart suddenly turned from sadness to joy. He found many stones and slammed into each other, only to see sparks. But I don't know how to make Mars burn. Later, I tried to untie my waist, tore it hard, calmly took out a group of tidbits, put reed tidbits under the stone, and then hit the stone to make a fire.
The more sparks are splashed, the louder the sound of igniting reed tidbits is. Zhu Rongyong blew it gently with his mouth, and with a thick smoke, a flame came out. The fire was successful, and people had the expectation of surviving with it. Adults and children in the cave cheered. The Yellow Emperor specially held a celebration banquet for Zhu Rong, which made great contributions to him and named him "Huozheng" (official position).
3. Shang Bo steals fire.
Shang Bo was originally a Vulcan in heaven. He heard that there was no fire on the earth, so he threw the kindling into the world, but it went out several times and did not fall to the ground. God knows this, saying that Shang Bo broke the rules of heaven and degraded him to the mortal world. When Shang Bo fell from the sky, he found a wormwood rope, secretly lit a fire, hid it under his clothes and brought it to the ground.
When Shang Bo came down to earth to become a man, he taught people to use fire with heart: when hunting, he taught people to round up wild animals with fire; when eating, he taught people to cook with torches; in winter, he taught people to keep warm with fire; at night, he taught people to light with fire. People's lives are much better.
Who knows that it wasn't long before Shang Bo stole the fire and let God know. God was very angry. He immediately ordered the rainstorm to flood, and flooded the immortal fire and Shang Bo. It rained like a downpour, and the flood washed the house and the ground. People just want to run for their lives, and no one cares about fire fighting.
Only Shang Bo remembered the seeds of fire, and asked everyone to help build a earthen platform, put the fire on it, build a shed to shelter himself from the rain, keep himself on fire, and ask everyone to run for their lives. Later, the flood subsided and everyone came back. When they came to the earthen platform, they saw that the fire had not been put out, but Shang Bo starved to death. People in this area don't forget Shang Bo's achievements, so they call this earthen platform "Vulcan Platform" and "Shangqiu".