Nuwa, the goddess of creation in ancient Chinese mythology.
Also known as Emperor Huan and Nü Yin, the history of the Nüwa clan, is the ancestor of the Chinese national humanities, is the blessing of the society of the right god.
According to legend, Nuwa created man, changed in the middle of a day, created people with yellow mud to imitate herself, created human society and established a marriage system; because the world collapsed, so the molten stone was used to supplement the heavens, and the turtle was enough to stand four poles, leaving behind the myth and legend of Nüwa supplementing the heavens.
Nuwa is not only a hero who repairs the heavens and saves the world and a goddess who creates people from the earth, but also a god of nature who creates all things, and has the power to incarnate all things, and can create at least seventy things every day. She created the world, so she is known as Mother Earth, and is widely and long-term worshipped by the people, the creator god and the first mother god.
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The main achievements are: creation of human beings, repair of heaven and salvation of the world, sheji blessing god, sage sages, the rule of the empress, the production of music and media, etc
Nuwa made man
Nuwa is the creator god, but creation includes both the creation of nature and the creation of human beings, so Nuwa is also the god of creation. According to legend, one day, she passed by the banks of the Yellow River, remembering that since the opening of the sky, she had created mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, birds and animals, and changed the originally silent world. However, Nuwa always felt that there was still something missing in the world, but she couldn't remember what it was for a while. When she looked down and pondered, she saw her own reflection in the yellow river, and suddenly realized. It turns out that there is still a lack of "people" like himself in the world. Therefore, Nuwa used the soil of the Yellow River to make the clay man with her own appearance, and then exerted divine power, and the mud man became a human.
Nuwa high media
Nuwa created women and men, and Nuwa thought that they were human beings, and there would always be a day of death. What to do when you're dead and make another batch is too much trouble. So Nuwa went to the heavens, arranged for men to marry women, and married people, so that there was marriage, so it was regarded as the god of the main marriage and love.
Nuwa makes music
Nuwa created traditional musical instruments such as the Se, Sheng, and 埙, which are part of China.
Nuwa gives wine
Legend has it that Nuwa created people out of clay modeled on herself. In the earliest period of human life, people worked to fill their stomachs, sunrise, sunset, no time for entertainment, no entertainment. Seeing that the people she had created were so laborious, Nuwa felt compassion and turned the nectar on the mountain into fine wine and gave it to mortal human beings. People try to drink fine wine, and they feel that the taste is very mellow, sweet, and can dissolve the fatigue of the body, which is very happy. When everyone gets together, they naturally think of drinking, and the atmosphere is more joyful than drinking alone. People are very grateful to Nuwa, not only for giving human bodies, but also using the wine given to make people's bodies more healthy and happy, and also increasing the opportunities for people to gather, communicate, and communicate. In order to express her gratitude, she used the fine wine she gave to the world to honor the nuwa, which slowly evolved into a conventional etiquette, and the custom of toasting the heavens with wine began and has been passed down to this day.
Nuwa makes up the heavens
According to the Huainanzi Meditation And other classics, in ancient times, the four pillars of heaven fell, the land of Kyushu was torn apart, the fire spread unquenchable, and the flood continued. Nuwa could not bear the disaster of mankind, so she refined five-colored stones to make up the sky, folded the feet of the turtle to support the four poles, and killed the beasts in the flood, so that human beings could live in peace.
There are differences in other ancient texts. The "On Heng and Talking about the Heavens" and the "History of the Three Emperors" record that the water god Gonggong and the fire god Zhu Rong fought, and the Gonggong used his head to hit the pillar of the world, buzhou Mountain, causing the sky to collapse; the Huainanzi Astronomical Training recorded as the battle between Gonggong and Gonggong and Huanyan; the Huainanzi Yuandao recorded as the battle between Gonggong and Gaoxin; the "Carved Jade Collection and Zhuangli" recorded as the battle between Gonggong and Shennongshi; and the "Lushi Taiwuji" recorded as the battle between Gonggong and Nüwa.
Nuwa's status changed from time to time, sometimes above the Three Emperors, sometimes within the Three Emperors, sometimes below the Three Emperors. It is said that there are three reasons:
1. In myths and legends, Nuwa incarnates all things and has a very high status, above the Three Emperors;
2. According to legend, Fuxi and Nüwa are both blood relatives and husband and wife, both are family members, and when they are included in the Three Emperors, sometimes both people are selected, and sometimes only one person is selected as a representative, and they are among the Three Emperors;
Third, the prominent position of the Book of Shang in the scriptures makes the views of the three emperors of Fuxi, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor that it promotes are recognized by most people, and the matriarchal society in which Nuwa is located, followed by a patrilineal society, with men as the respect, so it is under the Three Emperors.
Nuwa is the common humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation and the mother of the Chinese nation. Nüwa culture has a long history, profound and rich content, is a prehistoric civilization and the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and is also an important research object for exploring the source of China's prehistoric civilization.
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