INTRODUCTION
Chinese mythology is very diverse just like China itself and its culture. China has different views of the creation story. Some believe that there is no myth exist and that no one can explain the world’s origin. However, this creation story of Pangu and Nü Wa is a synthesis of three stories from The Classics of Mountains and Seas, an anthology stories collected in the first century BC of Shan Hai Jing.
STORY
Long, long ago, the heavens and earth were still one and there was nothing but chaos. The entire universe was contained in an egg-shaped cloud, all the matter of the universe swirled chaotically in that egg. Amidst the chaos was Pan Gu, a huge giant who grew in the swirling matter. He slept and developed inside the …show more content…
These human beings she made by hand are believed to be the noble and royal people of society. She worked day and night to make more man and soon her loneliness disappeared in the crowd of little humans around her. She eventually became very exhausted. In an attempt to find an alternative way, Nü Wa took a vine and dipped it in the clay-mud. She swung the vine around, causing the droplets of mud to drop everywhere resulting to more humans though they were not as perfect as the one's Nü Wa crafted by hand. These people are believed to be the commoners.
More and more of her creations are dying so Nü Wa divided the humans into male and female so they can reproduce and save her from having to make new humans to break her solitude.
Many years later, Pangu’s greatest fear came true. Gong Gong, the water god and Zhu Rong, the fire god were fighting and when Gong Gong was embarrassed he was losing, he smashed his head to the Sacred Pillar of Mount Bu Zhou, the pillar that held up the sky. This caused the heavens to tilt to the northwestern side and the earth to the southwestern side. This explains why the moon, stars and sun move towards the northwestern side and the rivers of China flow towards the southeastern
Chinese mythology is very diverse just like China itself and its culture. China has different views of the creation story. Some believe that there is no myth exist and that no one can explain the world’s origin. However, this creation story of Pangu and Nü Wa is a synthesis of three stories from The Classics of Mountains and Seas, an anthology stories collected in the first century BC of Shan Hai Jing.
STORY
Long, long ago, the heavens and earth were still one and there was nothing but chaos. The entire universe was contained in an egg-shaped cloud, all the matter of the universe swirled chaotically in that egg. Amidst the chaos was Pan Gu, a huge giant who grew in the swirling matter. He slept and developed inside the …show more content…
These human beings she made by hand are believed to be the noble and royal people of society. She worked day and night to make more man and soon her loneliness disappeared in the crowd of little humans around her. She eventually became very exhausted. In an attempt to find an alternative way, Nü Wa took a vine and dipped it in the clay-mud. She swung the vine around, causing the droplets of mud to drop everywhere resulting to more humans though they were not as perfect as the one's Nü Wa crafted by hand. These people are believed to be the commoners.
More and more of her creations are dying so Nü Wa divided the humans into male and female so they can reproduce and save her from having to make new humans to break her solitude.
Many years later, Pangu’s greatest fear came true. Gong Gong, the water god and Zhu Rong, the fire god were fighting and when Gong Gong was embarrassed he was losing, he smashed his head to the Sacred Pillar of Mount Bu Zhou, the pillar that held up the sky. This caused the heavens to tilt to the northwestern side and the earth to the southwestern side. This explains why the moon, stars and sun move towards the northwestern side and the rivers of China flow towards the southeastern