Myth is a kind of folk literature created by ancient people, full of all kinds of whimsy, which casts a strange color on the wishes of primitive workers and the growth and change of everything in the world. In the early days of human civilization, myth was a very important artistic creation. Myth is usually recorded and circulated in poetic language, which is an important material for studying early human art and cultural life, and also a great source of human belief and literary creation in later generations.
In many classics of China, there are records about the main gods in ancient China, such as Fuxi, Nuwa, Yan Di, Huangdi and Zhuan Xu. , produced the myths and legends such as Fuxi divination, goddess mending the sky and * * * touching the mountain. Most of them come from the self-image of ancient humans, which is a microcosm of ancient society.
Pangu created the world.
Legend has it that ancient heaven and earth were inseparable, the universe was in chaos, darkness invaded and there was no light. In this world where you can't tell up, down, east, west, north and south, there is a god named Pangu. He doesn't know where he came from or where he is going, except that he has been sleeping in this chaos for 18 thousand years.
One day, Pangu suddenly woke up and didn't know what was affecting him. Seeing the darkness around him and the unbearable heat, he was so angry that he simply picked up a big axe and slammed it into the darkness in front of him. There was only a loud bang, and the chaotic things in front of me gradually separated. Bright and clear things, slowly rising, became the sky; Heavy and muddy things, slowly falling, became the ground.
After the separation of heaven and earth, Pangu was afraid that they would meet again, so he held his head high and stepped heavily on the ground. The sky is ten feet high every day, the earth is ten feet thick every day, and Pangu grows taller and taller.
In this way, I don't know how long it took, and heaven and earth gradually took shape. When Pangu looked at it, he smiled and was suddenly exhausted by a seat. Great changes have taken place in Pangu's body after his fall. The breath he exhaled became the wind and clouds of the four seasons; The sound he made turned into rumbling thunder. His eyes became the sun and the moon; His body has become the four poles of the east, west, north, south and majestic mountains and rivers on the earth; His skin became a vast earth, and his hair became vegetation; His blood turned into a flowing river, and his sweat turned into rain and dew that moistened everything ... From then on, the world began.
Second, Nu Wa made man. Nu Wa made man.
After Pangu created the world, there were no human beings in the world. In the vast Yuan Ye, there appeared an ancient great god, Fuxi's sister Nuwa. She looked around, the mountains were rolling, the rivers were running, the jungle was dense, the vegetation was in full bloom, birds were flying in the sky, animals were running on the ground, fish were playing in the water, and insects were jumping in the grass. It is said that the world is also beautifully decorated. But I don't know why, Nu Wa always has an unspeakable loneliness.
So she made a few small things out of mud and water according to her own appearance, and replaced the snake tail with her legs. She called these little things "people"
It happened that there was a little soul left by Pangu between heaven and earth, which was absorbed by these so-called "people", suddenly became furious, looked different from other creatures, and even talked with Nu Wa. Nu Wa feels that she is no longer so lonely, so she wants to make this company spread all over the world and make the world lively. Nu Wa went on working and pinched one person after another. But after all, the world is too big. She worked for a long time, her hands were numb, and she didn't achieve her goal. She thought this would definitely not work, so she broke a vine from nearby and plunged into the mire, splashing mud all over the floor. As a result, the little mud became a villain, which was almost made by hand. When Nu Wa saw that the new method worked, she spilled more and more. Soon, the earth is full of people. Later, Nu Wa established a marriage system for human beings, so that young men and women could intermarry and reproduce. Humans will have to reproduce in this world from generation to generation.