Nuwa woke up, and many years had passed on the human world. The six animals she made and various animals were mixed in the forest and the grassland, and there were many more wild ones. Nuwa looked at everything around her, she still felt very lonely, there was no one on the earth who could walk upright like herself, could talk and think, had feelings, and could communicate with herself, she felt that adding something between heaven and earth would be more angry. Suddenly a wonderful thought came out of her head. She decided to put her thoughts into action right away.
Nuwa came to a very long and wide river and squatted down, and the clear water reflected her face. She dug up some yellow dirt by the river and used the water from the river to reconcile the mud. Then he kneaded the mud in his own way. She looked at the mud and always felt that something was wrong. oh! It turned out that this little mud ball was the same as itself, with no legs apart, only a large tail like a snake. So Nuwa dipped some more water and pinched the mud man's tail into two legs.
Nuwa held the clay man in her hand and played with it for half a day, and then blew a breath of immortal qi with the breath of life at the clay man. When she placed the clay man in the place, a wonderful sight appeared, and this little mud ball came alive, running and jumping around Nuwa non-stop.
It was very happy to see this child who looked almost like herself but was relatively small than herself. She said to the little doll: "Child, you are from the loess soil, so you have yellow skin, black eyes, your hair is black, although the mud is small, but you can think, talk, have feelings, can absorb the essence of heaven and earth, you are different from birds and beasts, because you walk upright, your name is "man". ”
The little doll bounced around and said, "Mom, Mom, can you create more "people" like me?" ”
"Yes, that's exactly what I want to do!"!
Just as the so-called "one time to be born, two times to mature," with the first experience, the work behind Nuwa is much more handy. Only to see her left hand digging mud from the river, her right hand taking water from the river, and then her hands flexibly kneading, a moment of kung fu to create a new person, just like this, Nuwa kept digging, taking water, kneading, and gradually her surroundings were full of these lovely people, including both men and women.
Watching these clever beings laughing on the earth, Nuwa was full of confidence that she would let the footprints of mankind cover the earth, but she had worked too long, too tired, and her hands were numb. What to do? Suddenly, she had a stroke of genius. He found a rope from a distance, first threw the yellow mud from the river into the river, muddying the river, and then threw the rope into the river so that the rope was stained with muddy water. Then Nuwa took the rope out of the river and threw it in the sky. In this way, the mud dots on the rope fell to the ground, and each mud dot became a new person. Nuwa saw that this method was much more labor-saving than kneading one by one, so she asked the children to create humans with herself by dipping grass rope in mud. It is said that today's Yellow River in China is the river that Nuwa made people to fetch water at that time, which is why Chinese call the Yellow River the Mother River.
The work of creation is finally complete, and there are enough human beings to cover every corner of the earth. At this time, Nuwa thought again: "Because human beings were created by me, they are different from other birds, beasts, fishes and insects." Man should be the master of the earth, and all animals should obey their command. So Nuwa blessed these human beings.
Seeing that the earth was full of humans, Nuwa felt that her task was complete. She felt relieved but tired and had to take a good rest, so she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
In her sleep, Nuwa dreamed that all the human beings she had created had disappeared, and the earth was empty. Nuwa, who woke up from the dream, thought of a terrible problem, that is, although humans are the leaders of all things, they, like other animals, will eventually usher in death. If humans die one batch and make another batch of their own, it will be too much trouble. What to do? Nuwa looked at the men and women she had created on the earth and her heart was full of sorrow. Yes! Men are strong and women are weak, so that men and women can combine themselves to conceive offspring, to nurture offspring, so that human beings can continue. Therefore, Nuwa established a marriage system for human beings, allowing men and women to combine with each other, have children, and multiply.