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The fairy tale of Nuwa’s creation of man
Version 1 of the mythical story of Nuwa’s creation of man
Pangu opened up the world and created the sun, moon, stars, mountains and rivers with his body. The turbid air that remained between heaven and earth slowly turned into insects, fish, birds and beasts, adding vitality to this dead world. At this time, there was a goddess Nuwa, walking on this vast wilderness.
She looked around, the mountains were rolling, the rivers were rushing, the jungle was dense, the grass and trees were shining, the birds were flying in the sky, the beasts on the ground were galloping, the fish were playing in the water, and the insects were jumping in the grass.
But she always felt an indescribable loneliness. The more she looked at it, the more annoyed she felt, and the sense of loneliness became stronger and stronger, and she couldn’t even figure out why. She told Shanchuan Caomu about her irritability, but Shanchuan Caomu didn’t understand her words at all; she poured out her thoughts to insects, fish, birds and beasts, how could insects, fish, birds and beasts understand her distress. She sat slumped by a pond, staring blankly at her own shadow in the pond. Suddenly, a leaf fell into the pool, and the still water rippled slightly, causing her shadow to sway slightly.
She suddenly felt that the dead knot in her heart was unraveled, yes! Why does she feel that unspeakable sense of loneliness? It turned out that the world was lacking a creature like her. Thinking of this, she immediately dug some soil by the pool with her hands, and then pinched it according to her own shadow. Pinching and pinching, it became a small thing, similar in appearance to Nuwa, with facial features and seven orifices, hands and feet. After pinching it and putting it on the ground, it came alive. When Nuwa saw it, she was full of joy, and then pinched a lot more.
She called these little things “people.” These “human beings” were created in the image of gods, and their arrogance and behavior were naturally different from other living beings. They cheered and cheered for a while beside Nu Wa, and then slowly dispersed. Nuwa’s lonely heart suddenly warmed up. She wanted to make the world lively and lively, so that there were people everywhere in the world that she made with her own hands, so she kept working and pinched one after another.
But the world is too big after all, she has worked for a long time, her hands are numb, and the small people she squeezed are still too rare on the earth. She thought that it would not be possible to continue like this, so she broke down a vine from the vicinity, reached into the quagmire, and splashed the mud on the ground. As a result, the little bit of mud turned into little people, similar to the ones pinched with hands, which was much faster. Seeing that the new method was working, Nuwa became more and more energetic, and there were people everywhere on the earth.
Nuwa created many people on the earth, she was happy and her loneliness was swept away. She felt very tired and wanted to take a break and walk around to see how those people were living. One day, when she went to a place, she saw that there were very few people and it was very strange. She leaned over to examine it carefully, and saw that there were many little people lying on the ground, but they did not move. She fiddled with her hands, but there was no movement. The villain, whose hair was snow-white at this time, was at the end of his life.
When Nuwa saw this situation, she was secretly anxious. She thought that she worked hard to create people, but people continued to age and die. If it goes on like this, if there are always people in the world, shouldn’t it be made forever? This is not always the way. As a result, Nuwa referred to the method of transmission of all things in the world, and asked human beings to cooperate with men and women to reproduce.
Because the human world is a creature that imitates gods and cannot be equal to animals, she also established a marriage system to make it different from the promiscuity of animals. Later generations regarded Nuwa as a “divine matchmaker”.
The Myth of Nuwa’s Creation of Man Version 2
Nuwa is a goddess with a human body and a dragon tail. After Pangu opened up the world, he also traveled around the world.
Nuwa glided on the ground and admired the graceful structures of Pangu’s body. She loved trees, flowers and plants, but she was more intoxicated by the more lively and energetic birds, beasts, insects and fish. After examining them, Nuwa thought that Pangu’s creation was not complete, and the intelligence of birds, beasts, insects and fish was far from satisfying her.
She wants to create a creature that is superior to any living thing. In this way, there will be lives that can dominate and manage all things in the world, and it will not be just wild grass, wild beasts, and flocks of birds, and the world will not be lonely and desolate.
So, when the female misfortune slid along the Yellow River and looked down to see her beautiful shadow, she couldn’t help but feel happy. She decided to use the mud on the riverbed to shape the clay figurine according to her own shape. Nu Wa was ingenious, and in a short time she made a lot of clay figurines.
The clay figurines were almost like her, except that instead of dragon tails, she had made them legs that matched their hands. Nu Wa blew at the little clay figurines, and those little clay figurines were infused with vitality, “lived”, and turned into a group of little things that could walk upright, speak words, and are smart and dexterous. Nuwa called them “” people”. Nuwa infused some of them with yang, a combative male element of nature, and they became men; in others, she infused yin, a submissive female in nature so they became women. These men and women jumped and cheered around Nuwa, bringing life to the earth.
Nuwa wanted people to spread over the vast land, but she was tired and did it too slowly. So, she came up with a shortcut. She put a rope in the mud at the bottom of the river and turned it until the bottom of the rope was completely covered with soil. Then, she lifted the rope and waved it to the ground. Wherever there were mud spots, those mud spots turned into little people. This is how Nuwa created people who covered the earth.
In order to make human beings continue, Nuwa established a marriage system for human beings, allowing men and women to cooperate with each other and have children, so that human beings can reproduce and continue to this day.
Nuwa’s children live happily on earth. However, “there are unpredictable winds in the sky”. One year, the water god Gonggong and the fire god Zhu Rong fought. Gonggong was defeated by Zhu Rong. He was so angry that he hit the Buzhou Mountain in the west with his head. A huge hole appeared in the sky, and the earth was shaken and broken in many places.
Flames erupted from the rift, burning people’s houses and crops. Floods swept across the banks, and underground waters spewed out from other crevices, submerging the earth, and the place where people lived became a vast ocean.
Nuwa watched in horror as thousands of you starved and drowned. She was determined to save her children from the disaster of her children. Nuwa slid to the Yellow River, picked out many colorful stones, melted them in a furnace, and filled the holes in the sky with the molten liquid.
Nuwa kept making up and making up, nine days and nine nights passed, the sky was finally mended, the earth cleared up, and five-colored clouds appeared on the horizon. The colorful clouds that appear after the rain and the weather are fine are made by Nuwa with colorful stones.
The sky was repaired, and the sky was more splendid and gorgeous than before, Nu Wa smiled gratified. However, she was still not at ease, and caught another giant tortoise from the East China Sea, cut off its four legs, used them as Optimus Primes, and erected them on the four corners of the earth to support the four corners of the world.
Then, the kind and great mother burned a large number of reeds into ashes and filled up the ravines on the ground. In this way, people can live in peace and contentment, human beings finally get rid of the disaster, and there is a peaceful and happy atmosphere on the earth, and people live happier.
Nuwa created human beings, so she is called the ancestor of human beings – “Ms. Nuwa”; she worked tirelessly for the happiness of the people she created, so her name was engraved in the hearts of future generations.
