Refining stones to mend the sky
According to the records of "The Chronicles of Three Emperors", the God of Water Gonggong fought with the God of Fire Zhurong. The *** worker was defeated by Zhu Rong and hit Mount Buzhou, the pillar of the world in the west, with his head, causing the sky to collapse and the water of the Tianhe to pour into the world. Nuwa could not bear the suffering of human beings, so she made stones of five colors to mend the sky, broke the feet of the divine turtle to support the four poles, calmed the floods and killed wild beasts, so that human beings could live in peace.
There are other opinions. "History of the Road" states that the Gong clan of the Han Dynasty caused chaos after the Taihao clan (Fuxi clan), causing floods. Nuwa fought with the Gong family and defeated the Gong family, so the world was restored to peace.
The day when Nuwa made stones to mend the sky is called Tian Chuan Day. There are different opinions. The seventh, ninth, tenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-third and twenty-fifth days of the first lunar month in various Chinese regions The date varies, but it generally ranges from the seventh day of the first lunar month to the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, with the twentieth day of the first lunar month being the most popular. Some people also say that Nuwa repaired the sky, which took three days from the 20th to the 23rd of the first lunar month.
Lu Tong said: "Introduce the needle of the sun and the moon, and mend the sky with the thread of the five stars. After mending for three days, he refused to return to his son-in-law's house." Yang Shen's "Ci Pin" in the Ming Dynasty said: "Before the Song Dynasty, the first month The 23rd day is the day of Tianchuan. It is said that Nuwa used this day to mend the sky. It is customary to place pancakes on the house, which is called Mending the Sky. This custom has been out of date for a long time."
After the Song Dynasty, it was almost always done. On the twentieth day of the first lunar month. The Hakka people and the Minnan people in Zhangzhou call the day of mending the sky as the 20th day of the first lunar month. The Hokkien people in Sanyi, Quanzhou, don't want to wear the sky and the sun, so they commemorate Nuwa's patching of the sky on May 5th during the Dragon Boat Festival.
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Blood relationship
Nuwa and Fuxi are brother and sister, and their mother is Hua Xu Shi. Ancient books often mention that the Huaxu family gave birth to Fuxi in Chengji because they stepped on the big footprints in Leize. The ancient Huaxu Kingdom was located in Huaxu Town, Lantian County, near present-day Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. There are remains of relevant place names such as Huaxugou, Nuwa Valley, and Lianshi Terrace.
The union between Nuwa and Fuxi was the earliest marriage. Lu Tong of the Tang Dynasty wrote in the poem "Befriending Ma Yi": "... Nuwa was originally Fuxi's wife. She was afraid of the wrath of the sky, so she refined five-color stones, drew the needles of the sun and the moon, and mended the sky with the threads of the five stars. She mended three He refused to return to his son-in-law's house, so he went to the middle of the day to plant crows and plant osmanthus to raise shrimps and toads. When God became angry, he turned into a dragon and a snake. The image of the clan appears in ancient books. Sima Zhen of the Tang Dynasty believed in "The Chronicles of Three Emperors" that after several generations after Fuxi, Nuwa replaced Fuxi as the leader of the clan alliance. Both Nuwa and Fuxi have the surname Feng, indicating that these two clans have the same maternal ancestor.
After the Nuwa clan, it was the Da Ting clan who became the leader of the clan alliance. Another is said to be Shennong.