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Does Pangu really exist?
Pangu is a figure in China folk myths and legends, but he is not a real person.

China's folk myths and legends are groundbreaking in Kunlun Mountain, and Pangu's mythological narrative can be found in May 30th Calendar, May 30th Calendar and Narration of Different Events. Pangu's epoch-making theory first appeared in the Calendar of March 5 written by Xú Zhēng, a Wu native of the Three Kingdoms, and its earliest images were found in the Biography of Guangbo and the Trial of the Fairy World, with the snake head leading the dragon and the snake face leading the man respectively.

Legend of brother and sister

The combination of brother and sister Pangu is the beginning of Yin and Yang, which reflects the history of ancient blood marriage and is a development of the combination of Pangu myth and Fuxi Nuwa myth. The stories of "Pangu Brothers and Sisters" or "Pangu Grandpa" and "Pangu Milk" are almost all found in the Selected Stories of Pangu Myth attached to "On Pangu in Ten Thousand Generations" edited by Ma Huixin and South Korea, which shows that this motif has spread widely and for a long time.

Southern myth

Judging from the fact that the Pangu myth was "widely circulated" after the Han and Wei Dynasties, it was widely absorbed and interpreted in various ways. It can be seen that among the ethnic minorities in southwest China, there are also people who evolved their ancestors into Pangu. They praised Pangu as the God of Creation, created the universe, gave birth to Gankun, gave birth to everything and gave birth to the most spiritual person.

In the 1980s, some scholars went to Tongbai Mountain in Henan Province to visit Pangu Mountain, Pangu Temple and myths such as "Pangu was born, opened heaven and earth, mended the sky, fought floods, destroyed wild animals and invented clothes".