1, Nu Wa made man
Nu Wa, one of the ancient myths and legends in China, can create at least 70 things every day, so she is called the mother of the earth. She is an ancient goddess.
According to legend, Nu Wa created human beings by imitating her own soil, and created and constructed human society. It also established a marriage system for human beings, enabling young men and women to marry each other and reproduce, so it was also known as the ancient god of love and marriage.
Nu Wa is the mother of the Chinese nation, and the Chinese nation's humanities began first and blessed the true god of the country. She created life with kindness and bravely took care of creatures suffering from natural disasters. She is the creator and mother god, and has been widely worshipped for a long time.
2. Kuafu Chasing the Sun
In ancient times, there was a man named Kuafu. He is so strong that he can pull up a big tree with one hand. You can cross a big river with one step up. At that time, people lived in the Woods, wore bark and ate wild fruits, and their lives were very difficult. Every winter night, people are cold and hungry, so everyone is afraid of the night and hopes that the sunshine can stay longer during the day.
Kuafu decided to catch up with the sun and let it stay a little longer during the day. Kuafu is standing on the top of the mountain. When the sun appeared, he shouted, "Sun, can you walk slowly and make the days longer?" Sun didn't answer and left in a hurry. The next day, I came to the top of the mountain and shouted to the rising sun, "Sun, can you walk slowly?" Sun still ignored him.
Kuafu quickly picked up his cane and ran after him. He vowed to catch the sun and not let it set. When the sun climbed to the top of the mountain, Kuafu caught up with it. When the sun set in the canyon, Kuafu chased it. Kuafu climbed mountains and chased for seven days and seven nights. The sun is a little scared, running faster and faster, and it is about to set.
Kuafu chased and chased, ran and ran. The big fireball of the sun made his throat almost smoke. He is getting more and more thirsty and tired, and he is going to fall down. So, Kuafu ran to the Yellow River, plunged into the water, plopped plop, and soon drank up the Yellow River. But he was still very thirsty, so he came to the Weihe River and drank it all at once.
Kuafu continues to catch up with the sun. But tired and thirsty, he fell to the ground and never stood up. After Kuafu's death, his tall body turned into a mountain, his hair into a tree, his blood into a river, and his cane into a peach grove.
3. Pangu Opens Heaven and Earth
Legend has it that in ancient times, the universe was like a big egg, regardless of heaven and earth. It's a mess, it's dark, and you can't tell up and down, left and right, southeast and northwest. But there is a great hero in the egg, and this is Pangu, who started the world. Pangu was conceived in an egg for 18 thousand years and finally woke up from a deep sleep.
When he opened his eyes, all he felt was darkness and unbearable heat. He wanted to stand up, but the eggshell wrapped around his body so tightly that he couldn't even stretch his hands and feet. Pangu was furious, grabbed an innate axe, waved his hand and heard a loud noise. The big egg suddenly burst, and the light and clear things inside kept rising upwards, becoming the sky, while other heavy and turbid things gradually sank and became the earth.
Pangu was very happy to open the heavens and the earth, but he was afraid that the heavens and the earth would close again. He held the sky with his head, stood on the ground with his feet, and exerted his magical powers, changing nine times a day. He grows ten feet every day, ten feet in the sky and ten feet in the ground. Eighteen thousand years passed like this. Pangu has now become a giant with indomitable spirit, with a length of nine Wan Li. In this way, I don't know how many thousands of years have passed, and finally the sky is firmly fixed. At this time, Pangu was relieved.
Pangu has been exhausted since the beginning of the world, and he has no strength to support himself anymore. His huge body collapsed. When Pangu died, great changes took place in his whole body. His left eye turned into a bright red sun, his right eye into a silver moon, his last breath turned into wind and clouds, and finally his voice turned into thunder.
His hair and beard became twinkling stars, his head, limbs and mountains, his blood became rivers, lakes and seas, his muscles became roads, his muscles became fertile land, his skin and hair became flowers and trees, his teeth and bones became treasures of gold, silver, copper, iron and jade, and his sweat became rain and dew. From then on, there was a world.
4. Houyi Shooting Day
In ancient times, ten suns appeared in the sky together. Their mother is the wife of the Eastern Emperor. She often bathes ten children in Donghai, China, the easternmost part of the world. After taking a bath, they perch on a big tree like birds, because there is a bird in the center of every sun. Nine suns perched on the shorter branches, and the other perched on the treetops, changing every night.
However, one day, the ten suns thought that if they traveled around the sky together, then when dawn came, the ten suns climbed into the car together and embarked on a journey across the sky. As a result, people and everything on earth will suffer. Ten suns are like ten fireballs, and their heat scorches the earth.
The forest caught fire and burned to ashes, killing many animals. Those animals that didn't die in the fire wandered around the crowd, frantically looking for food. The river dried up and so did the sea. When all the fish died, the monsters in the water climbed ashore to steal food. Many people and animals died of thirst. People struggled to survive in the fire.
At this time, there was a handsome young hero named Hou Yi. He is an archer, and his archery is superb. Seeing that people are living in misery, he decided to help people get rid of misery and shoot out nine redundant suns. Then, Hou Yi climbed a mountain, and at the foot of the mountain was the vast sea. Hou Yi opened a crossbow with a force of ten thousand Jin, took a sharp arrow with a weight of one thousand Jin, aimed it at the burning sun in the sky, and shot it out with a swish. The first sun was shot down.
Hou Yi opened his crossbow again, took a sharp arrow, and shot it with a buzz, shooting down two suns at the same time. Now, there are seven suns in the sky staring at their red eyes. Hou Yi felt that these suns were still very hot and shot the third arrow violently. This arrow hit four suns. The other suns trembled with fear. In this way, Hou Yi shot arrows at the sun one after another, and all of them shot down nine suns.
The nine suns with arrows can't survive, and they die one by one. Their feathers fell to the ground, and their light and heat disappeared one after another. The earth is getting darker and darker until at last there is only a ray of sunshine left. However, the rest of the sun was so scared that it staggered in the sky and panicked that it quickly hid in the sea.
Without the sun in the sky, it immediately became dark. Everything can't be bred by the sun, there are poisonous snakes and beasts everywhere, and people can't survive. They asked the gods in the sky to call out the tenth sun so that all human beings could continue to reproduce. One morning, in the East China Sea, colorful morning glow was reflected, and then a golden sun came out of the sea!
From then on, the sun rises from the eastern seaside every day, hangs in the sky, warms the world, seedlings grow and everything survives.
5, "Gong Gong is angry and can't touch the mountain"
After Pangu created Nuwa, Gong Gong, a water god, was always at odds with Zhu Rong, a Vulcan, and he attacked Vulcan. Xiang Liu and Pu Tong, pioneers, pounced on the light palace where the Vulcan Zhu Rong lived, putting out the immortal fire around the light palace. The earth suddenly darkened. Zhu Rong, the god of fire, came out to fight with a fire dragon. Wherever you go, the clouds are scattered and the rain is gathered; Darkness receded quietly and the earth saw light again.
The Water God Gong Gong became angry from embarrassment, and Liu and Piao Yun, the fates, drew water from three rivers and five seas and threw it at Zhu Rong and them. For a long time, the turbid waves in the air flew down, the black waves churned, the white clouds drowned, and the flame was doused again. However, the flood receded and the divine fire burned again. In addition, Zhu Rong asked Fengshen for help, and the wind helped the fire. The fire rode the wind and rushed fiercely to Gonggong. Gonggong wants to leave a flood to put out the fire, and the water spills thousands of miles. Where can he stay?
The flame rolled like a long tongue again, and the workers were burned to death and staggered. Gong Gong led the water army to fight and retreat and fled back to the sea. He took it for granted that Zhu Rong would retreat from the flood. So stand in the water palace and be proud. Unexpectedly, Zhu Rong was determined to win this time, and he pursued at full speed. Wherever the fire dragon goes, the sea can't help but roll and turn to both sides to make way for a road.
Zhu Rong, as the water god of Shuigong, had to bite the bullet and come out to fight. Zhu Rong, the Vulcan of Light, won. A sad life, leaving Liu Ran, Gong Gong was exhausted, unable to fight again, and fled back to the horizon in a mess. Gonggong fled all the way to Butoushan. Looking back, the pursuer was near. Gong Gong was ashamed and angry, so he slammed into the mountainside. There was a loud noise, and the mountain was not broken by Gong Gong.
Before the mountain collapsed, disaster struck. It turns out that mountains are big pillars supporting the sky. The pillar was broken, half the sky collapsed, exposing a big hole in the stone bone, and suddenly the Tianhe River flooded. The famous allusion of "fire and water are incompatible" originated from this war. Nu Wa refined the colorful stones to make up the sky, and the earth returned to normal.