☆ Pangu created the world
How the universe originated is the mystery that human beings have been exploring. Long ago, there were myths and legends about Pangu's creation.
according to legend, heaven and earth were originally a dark and chaotic mass, like a big egg. It was conceived in the middle under the plate. After 18,111 years, suddenly there was a loud crash and the big egg cracked. Some of the heavy and turbid things gradually descended into the ground, while the light and clear things gradually rose and became the sky. The chaotic world was separated by Pangu, who held the sky in his hand and stepped on the ground. The sky rises ten feet a day, the earth thickens ten feet a day, and Pangu's body grows ten feet a day. In this way, another 18,111 years later, Pangu's body grew as high as nine Wan Li, and stood in the middle of heaven and earth like a huge pillar, so that heaven and earth could not be closed again, and it was no longer dark and chaotic. But Pangu was also very tired and finally fell down and died.
Before Pangu died, strange changes took place in the heavens and the earth. His voice turned into rumbling thunder, his breath into clouds, his left eye into the sun, his right eye into the moon, his body and limbs into the four poles and five mountains of the earth, his blood into rivers, lakes and seas, his muscles into roads, his muscles into fields, his hair and beard into stars in the sky, his skin and hairs into flowers, trees and flowers. All kinds of parasites growing on him, nourished by sunshine and rain, have become the common people on the earth. In this way, after the creation of the world, Pangu gave birth to all things in the world with his whole body.
There are legends about the divine power of Pangu. When he cried, his tears became rivers, and the flash of his eyes turned into lightning. Say that when he is happy, it is sunny and sunny; When angry, the sky is overcast. He also said that it was day when he opened his eyes, and night when he closed his eyes.
Pangu, who created the world, is revered by people. Among some ethnic groups in southwest China, there are also various rituals and myths that worship Pangu. Legend has it that there is an ancient tomb in the South China Sea stretching for 811 miles, which is used to bury his soul.
☆ Nu Wa refined stones to make up the sky
In ancient Chinese mythology, there was a goddess who cultivated everything and benefited mankind. This is Nu Wa.
It is said that after the opening of heaven and earth, although there were mountains and rivers, lakes, flowers, birds and animals on the earth, there were no traces of human beings. Nu Wa, the great mother goddess, wanted to create a new life, so she grabbed the loess on the ground and kneaded it into the shape of little people, imitating the shape of herself reflected in the water. As soon as these clay figurines were put on the ground, they were alive and kicking, and Nu Wa named them "people". In this way, she fabricated many men and women with yellow mud. However, the speed of pinching people by hand is too slow after all, so Nu Wa successfully picked up a piece of straw rope and stirred the dark yellow mud to the ground. As a result, the places where the mud splashed down became people jumping around. So there are traces of human activities everywhere on the earth. Nuwa also matched men and women and told them to have their own offspring, which lasted from generation to generation. In mythology, Nu Wa is not only the original mother who created human beings, but also the earliest god of marriage.
Later, for some unknown reason, a great change suddenly took place in the universe. Half of the sky collapsed, revealing terrible big changes, half of the sky collapsed, revealing terrible black holes, and huge cracks appeared on the ground. The forest ignited a blazing fire, and the underground spewed out a flood. All kinds of wild animals, bad birds and strange pythons rushed out to endanger human beings. Seeing that mankind suffered such a tragic disaster, Nu Wa made every effort to mend the heavens and the earth. She first selected Xu colorful stone from the irrigation river, melted it into paste, and mended the holes in the sky one by one. He killed another big turtle, cut off its four feet and stood on the four sides of the earth to support the sky. Then he killed the black dragon, drove away all kinds of birds and beasts, and blocked the cross-flow flood with reed ash. Since then, the disaster has subsided, mankind has been saved, and the world has a thriving scene. In order to make people live a happier life, Nu Wa also made a musical instrument called Sheng Chun, which made people have fun after work.
Nu Wa is a mythical figure in matriarchal clan society. This myth reflects the naive understanding of human origin and natural phenomena at that time. Up to now, the myths and legends of Nu Wa are still circulating among Miao and Dong people in southwest China, and they worship her as the ancestor of this nation.
☆ Kuafu Day by Day
"Kuafu Day by Day" is an ancient myth in China. It embodies the spirit of primitive ancestors' pursuit of light.
Kuafu, who is tall, has great ambitions and is determined to catch up with the sun and make an earth-shattering career. Kuafu has two yellow snakes hanging from his ear, two yellow snakes in his hand and a walking stick with him. One day, the sun rose, and he strode after it until he reached Yugu. Legend has it that Yugu is a place where the sun rests. After the sun sets here to take a bath, rest on the huge wood. It will rise again the next day. At this moment, I saw a huge red fireball just around the corner, and Kuafu had entered the light wheel of the sun, completely surrounded by light. When he was celebrating his victory, he felt extremely thirsty. So he bent down, gulped down the water from the Yellow River and Wei River, and drank the water from the two rivers in a few times, but it was still unbearable. He ran to the north again, and wanted to drink the water from osawa. osawa is a water area with thousands of miles. But Kuafu died before he reached his destination, and fell down like a mountain. Where the walking stick was dropped, a peach forest with lush foliage and heavy fruits appeared.
It is said that there is a Kuafu Mountain in the southeast of Lingbao County at the junction of Henan and Shaanxi provinces, which is a relic left by Kuafu. To the north of the mountain, there is a peach tree forest hundreds of miles wide. It is also said that there is also a Kuafu Mountain in Hunan, with three huge stones on which Kuafu built a pot.
☆ The * * * worker who broke Tianzhu
Why did the sun, moon and stars rise in the east and set in the west? Why do all rivers flow eastward? Legend has it that the water god * * * broke Tianzhu, and * * * became a symbol of justice.
After Nu Wa mended Tianyu, the sun, the moon and the stars operated normally for a long time. But then a war disrupted this situation. The warring sides are the water god Gong and the God of Heaven Zhuan Xu.
*** worker is the son of Vulcan Zhu Rong. He has a human face, a snake body and red hair. * * * workers are often in charge of seven-tenths of the world, such as oceans, rivers and lakes, rivers and marshes. In the Great War between Huangdi and Yandi, Gonggong used water to help his ancestor Yandi fight. Zhuan Xu was the great-grandson of Huangdi, and Huangdi once asked him to act as a theocracy. However, when he was in charge of theocracy, he did not care about the people on earth, but also sent people to cut off the passage between the world and heaven and oppressed the gods he was dissatisfied with. What is even more unreasonable is that he tied the sun, moon and stars to the northern sky and fixed them there without moving. In this way, some places on the earth are always bright, and some places are always dark, which brings disaster to people. The water god * * * took the opportunity to lead his men, rose up and overthrew Zhuan Xu's rule and seized the throne of the Emperor of Heaven.
The war was so fierce that they hit the foot of a mountain called "Buzhoushan" from the sky. Buzhou Mountain is located in the northwest, and the mountain shape is strange and abrupt, which is a very high and extremely high supporting Tianzhu. The two sides fought incessantly here, and when they saw that they couldn't win at the moment, they suddenly became angry and slammed into the island, only to hear a loud noise, which broke the island in an instant.
At this time, the whole universe has undergone another great change. The sky in the northwest is tilted down because there is no support from the hills, and the sun, moon and stars can no longer be fixed in their original positions, so day and night alternate once a day. The land in the southeast was violently shaken by the landslide, and sank down, forming the terrain of China, which is high in the west and low in the east. Since then, the water from rivers has flowed to the east independently.
☆ Jingwei Reclaiming the Sea
"Jingwei Reclaiming the Sea" is a fairy tale that the ancients praised good wishes and perseverance.
According to legend, the little daughter of Emperor Yan, the sun god, went to the East China Sea to play, and fell into the sea and drowned. After her death, her soul turned into a bird, called "Jingwei", with a flower head, a white mouth and red feet, and she was lively and lovely. She was destroyed by the waves of sadness and hatred, and she thought that others might be taken away from her young life, so she kept picking up twigs and stones from the Western Hills. She flies endlessly between the West Mountain and the East China Sea.
jingwei's perseverance, good wishes and grand ambitions are respected by people. Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Jin Dynasty, wrote in his poem: "Jingwei holds a small wood, which will fill the sea." He warmly praised the tragic fighting spirit of Jingwei Bird who dared to fight against the sea. People in later generations often use "jingwei reclamation" as a metaphor for the arduous and outstanding cause of people with lofty ideals and lofty ideals.
☆ Fuxi invents gossip
It is said that Fuxi's mother is Hua Xushi, and she lives far away in the northwest. Once, she happened to see the footprints of a giant follower on the edge of the swamp. She felt very strange, so she tried it with her own feet. Unexpectedly, as soon as she stepped on it, she suddenly felt a strange feeling, and later she became pregnant and gave birth to Fuxi. Fuxi has a human head and a snake's body. He has great power since he was a child, and he can go up and down freely along the towering trees. When he grows up, he becomes the Emperor of the East.
Fuxi is a wise emperor and a great cultural ancestor. He knows astronomy above, geography below, and is familiar with the natural laws of everything on earth. He invented the Eight Diagrams, with the symbol (dry) representing the sky, (Kun) representing the earth, (Kan) representing the water, (away) representing the fire, (Gen) representing the mountain, (earthquake) representing the thunder, (Xun) representing the wind and (exchange) representing the ze. Fuxi teaches people to record everything with these symbols. He also followed the example of spiders, weaving ropes into nets and asking people to fish and hunt.
☆ Houyi shoots the sun
Yi is a god who is good at archery. Even if a bird flies by, it can be shot down with one arrow.
It is said that when Yao was emperor, ten suns appeared in the sky together, which brought severe drought to mankind. The land is baking smoke, all the seedlings are withered, and even the copper, iron and sand are so soft that they are about to melt. The people feel even worse, and their blood seems to be boiling in the sports peasant association. Strange birds and beasts have come out from the flaming forests and boiling rivers and lakes to hurt the people, making them suffer even more. When the Emperor of Heaven knew this, he sent Yi to the mortal world to save the people. The Emperor of Heaven gave Yi a red bow and ten white arrows.
I went to the mortal world at the command of the Emperor of Heaven and was welcomed by the people. So he posed, bent his bow and took an arrow, and it was difficult to pinpoint the fireball in the sky and shot it with an arrow. There was no sound at first, but after a while, I saw filariasis flying about in the sky and fireballs bursting silently. Then, a bright red thing fell to the ground. People rushed to explore it. It turned out to be a three-legged crow, golden in color and enormous, presumably the embodiment of the sun's soul. Looking at the sky again, the sun is missing, and the air seems to be cooler. People can't help cheering in unison. This encouraged Yi, who, regardless of other things, sent arrows again and again, only to see fireballs bursting one by one in the sky, and the sky was full of filariasis.
Yao, standing on the earthen altar watching archery, suddenly thought that people can't live without the sun, and hurriedly ordered someone to secretly draw an arrow from Yi's quiver. Finally, only one sun was left.
After shooting down nine suns, Yi removed many strange birds and beasts for the people. Among them, there is a man-eating "Qi Qi Yu", a chisel-like tooth, a nine-headed monster of fire and water, a strong wind that destroys houses and makes waves, a Dongting python "Ba Snake" and a wild pig "Feng Xi".
☆ the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon
Chang 'e was originally a goddess in the sky. Because her husband was sent to the earth by the Emperor of Heaven, she followed him to the earth. Yi was away all day, shooting down nine suns for the people, killing strange birds and beasts, and caring about his family, Chang 'e gradually became dissatisfied with him. One day, Yi asked the Queen Mother of the West for an elixir of immortality. If two people take this elixir together, they will live forever, and if one person takes it alone, he will become a god. Yi took the medicine home and gave it to Chang 'e, asking her to take good care of it. She wanted to choose an auspicious day for both of them to eat, but Chang 'e felt that since she came to the world with her husband, she had suffered a lot. Since the elixir has the magical effect of ascending to heaven, why not take it alone?
One night, Chang 'e took advantage of Yi's absence, poured out the elixir from the gourd and swallowed it all. Suddenly, her body was light, and she involuntarily floated out of the window and flew straight into the sky. As she flew, she thought that if she went to the mansion, the gods would laugh at her selfishness. Besides, it was not easy to meet her husband. It was better to hide in the moon palace for a while. Who knows that when Chang 'e arrived at the Moon Palace, her spine kept shortening, but her waist and abdomen expanded desperately, and finally she turned into an ugly toad. Therefore, in many ancient poems, the Moon Palace is called "themoon".
There is another legend later, saying that she has not become a toad, but is still a beautiful fairy. It's just that she is very lonely in the moon palace, and only a white rabbit and a osmanthus tree accompany her all the year round. Later, there was another WU GANG who was punished as a slave by the Emperor of Heaven. He kept identifying laurel trees, but the laurel trees were cut along with them, and he would never have a rest.
☆ The Legend of Fuxi
Fuxi is the legendary ancestor of human civilization, and is honored as the head of "san huang".
According to legend, his mother's name is Hua Xushi, and she is a very beautiful woman. One day, she went to Leize for an outing and found a big footprint on the way. Out of curiosity, she put her foot on the big footprint, and now she felt that she was entangled in snakes, so she was pregnant. Surprisingly, this pregnancy has been pregnant for 12 years. Later, I gave birth to a child with a human head and a snake body. This is Fuxi. In order to commemorate the birth of Fuxi, the local people changed the place name to Chengji, because in ancient times, people regarded twelve years as a century. According to historians, the ancient Chengji is today's Tianshui. "Hanshu" said: "Chengji belongs to Hanyang County, and Hanyang County is also Tianshui County. The land where the ancient emperor Fu Xishi was born ". Therefore, Tianshui has always been called "the hometown of Xihuang".
According to legends and historical records, as the ancestor of human civilization, Fuxi's main achievements are as follows: First, he taught people to make nets for fishing and hunting, which greatly improved the productivity of human beings at that time. At the same time, teaching people to domesticate wild animals is the origin of livestock. Second, change the marriage custom, advocate the marriage custom etiquette that men hire women to marry, and change the blood marriage to the marriage outside the family, ending the original group marriage state that children only know their mothers but not their fathers for a long time. Third, the original book contract was used to keep notes, replacing the backward form of knotting notes in the past. 4. Invent musical instruments such as pottery and harp, create music and ballads, bring music into people's lives, and help people "cultivate their self-cultivation and rationality, and be naive". Fifth, divide and rule their ruling areas, and appoint officials to manage the society, so as to provide reference for future generations to manage the society. Sixth, create an ancient calendar.
however, Fuxi's greatest achievement is to create gossip.
In the west of Weinan Township, North Road, Tianshui, there is a Guatai Mountain, which is said to be the place where Fuxi painted eight diagrams. Legend has it that in the ancient times when Fuxi lived, people knew nothing about nature. When it rains, it blows, and there is lightning and thunder, people are both afraid and confused. Fu Xi, who is naturally intelligent, wants to make all this clear, so he often stands on the Guatai Mountain, looking up at the sun, moon and stars in the sky, looking down at the surrounding terrain, and sometimes studying the footprints and patterns of birds and animals.
One day, he came to the Guatai Mountain again and was thinking hard about the phenomenon he had observed for a long time. Suddenly, he heard a strange roar and saw a dragon horse jumping out of the cave opposite Guatai Mountain. Said it was a dragon horse