The story of Nuwa refining stone to mend the sky
It is said that after the creation of the world by Pangu, there was no human being between heaven and earth at the beginning, only a goddess named Nu Wa.
According to legend, Nu Wa is the daughter of the earth and a goddess with a "human head and snake body".
Nuwa wandered around feeling very lonely. She sat down on a shallow bank by the Yellow River and saw the water reflect her face
Yung, suddenly had an idea.
Nuwa picked up some soil from the ground, put some water in it, and rubbed it together to create a small doll after her own face
. Strange to say, as soon as I put this little thing on the ground, he came alive. So Nuwa made one body after another out of mud
There were more and more small things on the side, and she was so happy that she called them "people".
Nuwa made batch after batch, and kept pinching and pinching, until she felt too tired and too slow, so she found some grass and wove it together
Rope, into the mud in the left and right swing, so that the rope covered with a lot of mud. Then pull the rope up and wave it
The mud on the rope, "splat splat" constantly fell down. Patches of mud fell on the ground, and they all became
The earth was soon covered with traces of man.
The small people who first used loess and their descendants became the rich and prosperous members of society; And people made of mud and their children
Become the poorest member of society.
According to legend, the water god Gonggong was defeated by the fire god Zhurong, and in his anger, he hit the giant pillar of the mountain with his head, so the sky collapsed
Split. The four pillars that supported the canopy fell down, and half of the sky fell, and a great hole opened up, and the earth broke apart everywhere
Come here. Fire poured out of the sky, and floods from the earth; fires raged everywhere, rivers flooded, and dragons, serpents and beasts came out and devoured the people.
Mankind is facing an unprecedented catastrophe. The kind-hearted Nuwa saw the suffering of human life and felt very sad, so she decided to mend the sky
The air and the earth. She went to heaven and earth to find the five-colored stone, and melted the five-colored stone into pulp to fill the sky curtain. From then on, there is the morning glow, there
Sunset, there is a blue sky, there is a rainbow like a long bridge.
It is said that after the goddess mending the sky, there was still a five-color stone that was not used and left behind in the human world, which was later formed as Turpan One in Xinjiang
With flaming mountains.
Nuwa mended the heavens and led the people to cure the flood on the earth so that mankind could live in peace. Every day she took a square and measured the height of the flood
Low position.
Nuwa used earth to fill the cracks in the ground, and asked the longest living and most tolerant turtle in the ocean to stand in the four corners of the earth
As four Optimus Prime. Steady the ground.
Nuwa also captured and killed the black dragon who caused trouble and killed the people, and stored a large number of reeds and burned them to ashes, blocking Xiang Si
At the spread of the torrent.
She taught people to direct the flood from the highlands to the depression, and the flood from the depression to the river, and the flood from the river to the East Sea.
Since then, there has been a big river in the Central Plains, called the Huai River. After the flood, the world was desolate. People had no food and starved to death
Countless. Nuwa taught people to tie a net with a rope to hunt. She also invented the bow and arrow, whether birds or beasts, with one arrow
Can be captured. She also taught people to keep captured animals and birds in order to keep the food supply uninterrupted. Therefore, Nuwa was honored by the world
Esteem.
Fortunately, with Nuwa, the sky no longer pierced, the earth no longer split, floods no longer overflow, and fierce beasts no longer threaten the people. world
Calm was restored, and the people were no longer threatened by natural disasters and lived happily.
In ancient Chinese mythology, the first ancestor god was Nuwa, who created human beings out of clay, and her consort god was Fuxi. Speak of them
They are husband and wife. When we say they are brother and sister, it reflects that they came from the same root and then joined together to produce man and all things. us
It can be said that Fuxi is the "father God" and Nu Wa is the "mother God". Legend has it that Fuxi and Nuwa have the body of a snake, or a dragon.
In the hundreds of statues of Fuxi and Nuwa found, they can be seen sometimes facing each other, sometimes facing each other, but always with their tails in a spiral shape
Get tangled up. In the hand, Fuxi is holding a square, while Nu Wa is holding a compass. In other statues of Fuxi and Nuwa,
Fuxi holds the sun in his hand, while Nuwa holds the moon in his hand, symbolizing the different left and right sides of men and women.
"Wa" is the title of the ancient goddess, meaning that all things are also, "Hua" is the meaning of "gestation", the people who are born all things, that is, not
It just means creating people. There are two ways of saying that Nuwa created man, one is that she created man alone, and the other is that she created man with him
The gods together made man.
Nu Wa created humans alone. According to the ancient book "Taiping Imperial View. Customs Tong", it is recorded that "there were no people at that time, Nu Wa was a man on loess.
And he took a rope into the mud and held it up as a man."
The ancient book "Huainan Zi. Shuolin" records that: "The Yellow emperor produces Yin and Yang, the eyes and ears, and the mulberry forest. Born arms and hands, this Nuwa
Seventy changes ".
These myths can reflect the situation of the early society at that time, the primitive matrilineal clan, mostly female as the center of non-blood
The scene of a group marriage. It is suggested that Nuwa cooperated with the gods to create human beings, and in the process of multiple pregnancies, there was help to produce ears
Eyes, hands and feet, more to help birth Yin positive apparatus.