Interpretation: openness. The ancient myth Pangu created the world. It represents the beginning of human history and is a metaphor for an unprecedented great cause.
Source "Sui Shu Music Record": "Create the world and climb the sea."
Usage combination; As predicate and attribute; Include praise
For example, Zhang Ling and Supplementary Biography by Qing and Huang: "Please visit me more, and I hope you can repay me properly; This is the first thing that matters. "
Synonyms are unprecedented.
Two-part allegorical saying: King Pangu played with an axe.
myth
Our great motherland has a long history. According to the ancient tradition, from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the present, it has a history of about 4,000 years, which is usually called "five thousand years up and down".
In the 5,000-year history, there are many touching and meaningful stories. Many of them are recorded in writing. As for the ancient situation five thousand years ago, there is no written record, but some myths and legends are circulating.
This idiom comes from Xú Zhēng's "35 calendar". Heaven and earth are chaotic like chickens, in which Pangu was born. He is 8,000 years old, and the heavens and the earth are open. Yang Qing is the sky, and the earth is cloudy, with Pangu in it.
Where did our ancestors come from? In ancient times, there was a myth that Pangu opened heaven and earth. It says that before the heavens and the earth opened, the universe was just a mass of chaotic gas, and there was no light or sound in it. At this time, a Pangu appeared and split the chaos with a big axe. Light gas rises to the surface and becomes the sky; Heavy gas sinks and becomes the ground.
From then on, the sky was ten feet high, the ground was ten feet thick, and Pangu himself was ten feet high. In this way, after 18 thousand years, the sky was high and the ground was thick. Of course, Pangu also became a giant with indomitable spirit. Later, when Pangu died, all parts of his body became the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation and so on.
This is the creation myth.
It is said that a long time ago, heaven and earth had not yet formed, and there was chaos everywhere. It has no boundaries, no up and down, no left and right, and looks like a round egg. In this round thing, there is a human ancestor-Pangu.
Eighteen thousand years later, Pangu matured in this round thing. He was very angry when he found the darkness in front of him, so he split the chaotic round thing with his axe. With a loud noise, the chaos in the round thing, the light and clear sun rises and becomes a high blue sky, while the heavy and turbid yin sinks and becomes a vast land. Since then, the universe has been divided into heaven and earth.
After Pangu was born, his head was blue, his feet were on the earth, and he stood upright between heaven and earth. Since then, the sky has grown ten feet every day, the earth has grown ten feet every day, and Pangu has grown one foot every day. In this way, another 18 thousand years passed, and the sky could not be higher and the ground could not be deeper. Pangu himself became an indomitable giant, 90,000 Li Long, supporting heaven and earth like a pillar, so that they would not become the chaotic state of the past.
After Pangu opened the world, he was the only one in the world. Because he created heaven and earth, what changes in his mood will lead to different changes in heaven and earth. When he is happy, the sky is clear; When he is angry, the sky is gloomy; As soon as he cried, it rained in the sky and fell to the ground to form rivers, lakes and seas; When he sighed, a strong wind blew to the earth, he blinked, and lightning appeared in the sky; He snores (Han) and thunder rumbles in the air.
I don't know how many years passed, but Pangu still died and lay on the ground. His head swelled up and became Mount Tai, the East Mountain. His feet turned to the sky and became Huashan in Xiyue; Its belly is high, and it becomes Zhongyue Songshan Mountain. His two shoulder blades, one became Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue and the other Hengshan Mountain in Beiyue. As for his hair and hair, it turned into trees and flowers. Later, there appeared the legendary ancient emperors-Huang San, namely Qin Shihuang, Huang Di and Ren Huang.
About the origin of mankind
Myth is just a myth after all, and no one will believe there is such a thing now. But people like this myth. Speaking of history, they often say that it started with "Pangu created the world". This is because it symbolizes the great spirit and rich creativity of human beings to conquer nature.
So, where should human history begin? Later, with the development of science, the fossils excavated from the ground proved that the earliest ancestors of mankind were apes transformed from ancient apes.
Scientists in China have excavated many ape-man skeleton fossils and relics all over the country, and we can see that the earliest hominids in our country have a history of more than one million years. Yuanmou ape-man found in Yunnan, about1700,000 years ago; Lantian ape-man unearthed in Shaanxi is about 800,000 years ago. Take the famous Peking man as an example. It has a history of 400,000 to 500,000 years.
Here, let's start with Beijingers. Beijingers live in Zhoukoudian area. At that time, the climate in northern China was milder and wetter than it is now. Under the mountain, there are trees, shrubs and lush weeds. Fierce tigers, leopards, wolves, bears and other wild animals haunt forests and Shan Ye. Elephants, rhinos and sika deer also grow there.
The strength of ape-man can't compare with these fierce beasts, but the fundamental difference between them and any animal is that ape-man can make and use tools. This tool is very simple, one is a stick and the other is a stone. There are many sticks in the Woods, but they have all been cut down; As for the stone, it was smashed by hand. Although rough, it is a tool made by people after all. They use this simple tool to collect fruits and dig the roots of plants to eat. They also use sticks and stone tools to fight against the wild and find food.
However, this tool is too simple after all. The food they get is very limited. They can't live independently, so they have to live in groups and work together to deal with the invasion of wild animals. This kind of crowd is called primitive crowd.
Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and apes have evolved through hard struggle. The remains of another primitive man were found in the cave at the top of Gulong Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. The appearance of this primitive man is no different from that of modern people. We call them Neanderthals.
Neanderthals' labor tools have been greatly improved. They can not only smash stones into axes and hammers, but also grind the bones of wild animals into bone needles. Don't look at this little spicule. At that time, it was not a simple thing for people to sharpen bone needles. With bone needles, people can sew animal skins into their clothes, instead of being naked as in the period of Peking man.
Neanderthals also lived in groups. But their social life has been fixed according to blood relationship. Members of a collective are descendants of Mr. Tongzu, that is, people of the same clan. In this way, human society has entered the period of clan commune.
Pangu's epoch-making documents and ancient books
Because of its long history and the Confucian concept of "don't talk about Machamp, you will be puzzled", ancient myths are rarely recorded in ancient books, unlike ancient Greek myths, which can be systematically and completely preserved in epics. In ancient Chinese literature, except for the myths recorded in Shan Hai Jing and other books, they are scattered in various books such as Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji, and these myths and legends are often only fragments, and there are not many works with complete story lines.
Specifically, the Poems of the Song of Songs, Fu of Shang Xuanniao and Ya, contain myths and legends about the ancestors of Shang and Zhou tribes: the ancestors' names of Shang; His birth was quite magical, when his mother Judy swallowed a swallow's egg. The ancestor of Zhou tribe abandoned his name, and the myths and legends about him are similar to Qi in plot: his mother Jiang Yuan was conceived in the footsteps of a giant and gave birth to him. Qu Yuan's works such as Li Sao and Tian Wen are filled with some myths and legends, forming a strong romantic color; Some myths and legends are occasionally mentioned in Zuozhuan, Guoyu and Yizhoushu. The Story of Mutianzi tells the story of Zhou Muwang's meeting with the Queen Mother of the West. Among hundred schools of thought's works, Zhuangzi has the strongest mythical color, and Kun to Peng, Things Changed, and The Lost of the Yellow Emperor are all famous stories. In addition, Mencius, Mozi and Han Feizi also preserved some mythological materials. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals and Huai Nan Zi in Qin and Han Dynasties were compiled by many people, among which there are many myths and legends, especially Huai Nan Zi, among which there are well-known stories and allusions such as the goddess mending the sky, Hou Yi shooting at the sun and the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon. The Classic of Mountains and Seas not only contains the strange shapes, living habits and customs of foreign nationalities, but also myths and legends such as Yu's flood control, Jing Wei's reclamation, Japanese praise for his father, Xingtian dance, the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou are widely circulated and deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The world is a mess, and Pangu was born in it. Eight thousand years old, heaven and earth open, sunny for the sky, cloudy for the ground. Pangu is among them, changing nine times a day. God is in heaven and saint is on earth. The sky is ten feet high, the earth is ten feet thick and Pangu is ten feet, so it is eight thousand years old. The number of days is extremely high, the number of places is extremely deep, and Pangu is extremely long. Then Huang San. From one to three, to five, to seven, to nine, so the day went to Wan Li. The first volume of "Literature and Art Collection" quoted the "Five-Movement Year"
The weather is fine, the bud begins, and then the sky and the earth are divided, and the yin and yang are exposed and the vitality is distributed. It is pregnant, neutral and human. Born Pangu, dying incarnation; Qi became a cloud, sound became thunder, left eye became the sun, right eye became the moon, five limbs became four poles and five mountains, blood became a river, tendons became the ground, tendons became soil, hair became a star, moss became vegetation, teeth became stones, refined jade, sweat became rain, and insects in the body became Li Meng due to weathering. "Yi Shi" volume one cited "five calendar years"
The king of Pangu, the snake with the dragon head, hissed as wind and rain, blew as lightning, opened his eyes during the day and closed his eyes at night. After death, the joints are mountains, and as rivers and seas, blood is blasphemy and hair is vegetation. Guangwu Bozhi (Jiuxing) Five-year Games Chronology
Yesterday's death of Pangu was also the first of the four mountains, the eye of the sun and the moon, the fat of the river and the sea, and the hair of the grass. According to the custom between Qin and Han dynasties, Pangu's head is Dongyue, the abdomen is Zhongyue, the left arm is Nanyue, and the right arm is Beiyue, and Xiyue is enough. The ancients said: Pangu's tears are rivers, qi is wind, and his eyes are electricity. The ancients said: Pangu is happy for the purpose, and anger is yin. Wu Chu said: Pangu couple, the beginning of Yin and Yang. Today, there is a 300-mile-long ancient tomb in the South China Sea, and the soul of Pangu is also buried by later generations. Guilin has Pangu Temple worshipped by modern people, and the South China Sea has Pangu Kingdom. Today, people take Pangu as their surname. Pangu, the ancestor of all things, creatures began in Pangu. On the Volume of Yi Shu Ji
Yuan, this is also. Beginning, beginning, innate qi. This gasification is the man who created the world, that is, Pangu; Became the ancestor who presided over the heaven; This is the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.
Through the mirror of the immortals, vol. 1
As soon as Pangu stretched out, the sky was high and the ground collapsed. And heaven and earth are more connected, with a chisel in his left hand and an axe in his right, or chopping or chiseling with an axe. It is divine power, and heaven and earth are divided for a long time. Two qi rise and fall, the clear is the sky, the turbid is the ground, and chaos. (Ming people traveled around "civilized evolution")
Heaven and earth are like a big watermelon, round and full of everything. 10800 years, everything has been integrated into it. Only Jin Mu, fire, water and soil are mixed in it, hard as melon seeds and soft as melon pulp. There are five colors in it: green, yellow, red, white and black, which are also soluble. It's been closed for a long time. If you can't open it, get a Pangu, a left-handed chisel and a right-handed axe, just like cutting a melon in half. The first half gradually rises to the sky, including green, yellow, red, white and black, which is a five-color auspicious cloud; The lower part is gradually lowered to the ground. It also contains green, yellow, red, white and black, which is a five-color stone mud. Hard to take it to the sky, people regard it as a star, and the underground is a stone. Stars and stones are always the same thing. If you don't believe me, there are stars falling to the ground today, and people are digging to see them, just like underground stones. However, there are springs in the world, and springs have nowhere to accumulate. They flow to the world and pour into the sea. (Travel around the appendix "Xian Tiandi's Judgment" of "Opening up Yan Yi")
Heaven gives birth to a great sage. Yue Hundun's family, Pangu's family, was also the family of the first emperor. The dragon head changes nine times a day, and it is Jiazi at the age of eighteen thousand. Jing Hunan's birthday is 10 16. And the early secular monarch, the family of the first emperor. (Integration of Ancient and Modern Books, Works of the Years, Volume 83, quoted from Supplementary Development)
The so-called Pangu people, immortals, change nine times a day. Tao Rong was also a master of nature when the Beggars began to mix. "Six Towers of Daming" says: "Say to King Wen:' Heaven is pure and bright, morality is healthy, and people are safe. If you don't forget, it's bad luck for you to forget. Pangu Sect can't move, if it moves, it will be fierce. ""Today there is Pangu Mountain in Huichang, Jiangxi, and this plate has a solid name. There is Pangu treasure in Xiangxiang and Pangu Temple in Youyu, which is called Pangu. According to the "Geographical Kunjian" cloud: "The leader is a person." Now there are temples in Chengdu, Huai 'an and Jingzhao. There are Xú Zhēng's Thirty-Five Calendars and Hu Danji. To the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Tiangang deduced the book "True Source Fu", saying that Yuan began to respond to the world, and 18,000 years was Jiazi. Jingxiangbei today takes 10 16 as Pangu's birthday, because the moon is dark. "Yuanfeng Nine Domains": "There are ancient tombs and temples in Guangling", which is almost false. The temples in Chengdu have the eyes of Pangu Saburo, which is very vulgar. Luo Ping's Notes on the History of the Road
Yesterday, the two gases did not separate, and the moth was in the HarmonyOS system, but it did not form. In the final analysis, heaven and earth are chicken-shaped, chaotic and mysterious. Pangu is a real person, and the essence of heaven and earth has been swimming in it since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. After the four robberies, the shape of the sky is like a huge cover, with nothing above and nothing below. Beyond heaven and earth, there is no sound, no vitality, no water-like shape, no mountains, no stars on it, the accumulated gas is firm and powerful, and the world floats in it. Without this spirit, heaven and earth would not have been born. The sky is like a dragon, turning back to the clouds. After the four robberies, Er Yi began to split, with a distance of 36,000 miles. The cliff stone bleeds into the water, and the aquatic protozoa drawn from the shore only need to be born, just need to be born with dragons. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the heavenly king was named Yujingshan, and the palace in the mountain was decorated with gold and jade. He often sucks the weather and drinks underground spring water. After two robberies, he suddenly gave birth to a jade girl in Taiyuan, covered in blood in a stone flow. He speaks in language, full of human form and has a wonderful natural appearance. Swimming in the thick land, sucking up the weather, the Virgin of Taiyuan, posthumous title, sees the downstream of Yuan Shijun, and it is well ventilated. At this time, the two qi are full, the yin and yang are harmonious, there is no heat or cold, the sky is high and the air is clear, the ground is flat and the air is harmonious, no longer breathing, and the propaganda and qi are combined, naturally complementing each other and giving full play. So much for the prosperity of the avenue. It is solid and immortal. Jin Yuzhu is the essence of heaven and earth. The ability to serve is in harmony with heaven and earth. (Jin Gehong, "The Fairy of Yuan Zaju")