In Cangyuan, Yunnan, there is a petroglyph. The painting goes like this: a man with a sun glowing on his head, a stone axe in his left hand, a wooden handle in his right hand, and his legs standing upright and proud of everything. Relevant experts believe that this is the work of primitive people twenty thousand years ago.
You can savor it, is this image very similar to one of our myths about Pangu? We can also say that the legend of Pangu has been around for tens of thousands of years, quite a long time.
Before the creation of the written word, the legend of Pangu was passed down by word of mouth and from generation to generation, and the story of Pangu was recorded after the birth of the script. Pangu has been passed down to this day, and it can be said that Pangu is the oldest god in Chinese history.
And no matter which ethnic group in China, Pangu is a god who has opened up the world. So this can also show that the Chinese nation was actually a family.
Legend has it that Pangu, the oldest god on Earth, slept in an egg-like world. Suddenly, one day, he suddenly woke up and looked at the chaotic world around him, the heavens and the earth were connected, the water and air were not separated, and the whole world was maddeningly hazy. The more Pangu looked, the more angry he became, this chaotic world was too boring, he wanted to create a new world.
Pangu stood up with an open axe in his hand, and he raised the axe high, shouted loudly, and swung the axe around. This hazy world was split by Pangu's axe, and the heavens and the earth gradually became clear before his eyes. The substance of this egg-like world, the turbid one sinks to the ground, and the clear one rises to heaven.
But Pangu, fearing that heaven and earth would become one again, stood there, his hands supporting the heavens and his feet on the earth. Until the distance between heaven and earth became farther and farther away, and finally it was no longer together.
But he finally couldn't hold back, he was tired, so he fell down heavily. His eyes turned into the sun and the moon, the exhaled gas became wind and clouds, his blood flowed into rivers, his meridians became roads, his muscles became fields, his hair became stars, his bones and teeth became stones and metal, and his sweat became dew and ganlin. His body became a mountain, and his limbs and head became five poles.
We, on the other hand, live in Pangu's fallen body. The nutrients in his body underpin human reproduction from generation to generation. Pangu's axe not only split the world, but also opened up a new world for mankind.
This is the story of Pangu's pioneering creation of the world.
The great god who has common influence with Pangu is Nuwa, who also has the ability to break new ground.
Legend has it that Nuwa was the first human. She lived alone between heaven and earth, no one to communicate with her, no one to run with her, no one to enjoy the sunrise and sunset with her, no one to appreciate this great world with her.
Suddenly, one day, Nuwa had a big idea, no one, then I can create human beings myself!
So Nuwa used the loess to knead into a person, and she felt that these people made of mud would inevitably age and leave her under the invasion of time. As a result, Nuwa had the idea of pinching into a man and a woman. Moreover, through mysterious physical behavior, men and women can pass on the code of life passed on to the clay people forever. In this way, there will always be someone to accompany Nuwa, and she will never be lonely again.
Nuwa kneaded the dirt into her own shape, Nuwa is extremely beautiful, but Nuwa did not delicately pinch the clay man in her own appearance. Some clay people just squeeze it roughly. Therefore, later, some human beings are tall, some are short, some are good-looking, and some are not pleasing in appearance.
After Nuwa kneaded the clay into human figures, she blew a breath of life immortal breath at them, and these clay people were resurrected and became living people. These people called Nuwa Niangniang.
Later, the world created by Pangu was in trouble. A hole appeared in the sky, and the sky fire attacked the human world. The earth cracked, the floods were terrible, and the human beings created by Nuwa were in danger of extinction. Nuwa had thought of not interfering with these human beings, leaving them to fend for themselves, and letting them reproduce on their own. But she was born with pity and could not bear to watch humanity suffer. So she refined the five-colored stone, made up the heavens, and since then mankind has been at peace.
In ancient legends, there is another person who also changed our world.
This person is a co-worker. Gonggong is a dragon clan, with dragons as their totem. His descendant's surname has a dragon son, which is the surname gong. There is also a surname that also comes from Gonggong, which is the surname of Hong. This is the surname that was changed by later generations who took refuge.
According to legend, Gonggong was the minister who controlled the water around Emperor Yao and was also the leader of a tribe. He was able to write and fight, and was supported by his people. Emperor Yao also attached great importance to the ability to work together, so he ordered him to cure the water. In that era, the most powerful person was the minister who controlled the water. For example, later Yu and so on.
However, Emperor Yao did not like co-workers, saying that although co-workers were capable, this population was like a lotus, and his words were too beautiful. And it is said that the co-workers are polite on the surface, but behind them there are ambitions, and sometimes they seem very arrogant.
When Yao was ready to pass the position to Shun, Gonggong was not convinced. So Emperor Yao punished gonggong to Youzhou and forbade him to stay by his side. However, the communist workers were still dissatisfied and prepared to lead the rebellion of the tribesmen. So Emperor Yao sent troops to attack Gonggong, and Gonggong was defeated by Emperor Yao.
Although he failed, the gonggong was still dissatisfied, and he crashed headlong into mount Buzhou. This collision can be described as a world of collapse, because the gonggong is a dragon clan, so his collision directly knocked the heavens and the earth to change the direction. The sky tilted and the ground collapsed. So the sun, moon, and stars slanted to the northwest and set to the northwest. The rivers flow southeast because the earth slopes to the southeast.
Pangu, Nuwa, and Gonggong all have the ability to break new ground, but their characteristics are different.
Pangu created the world of heaven and earth, Nuwa added human life to this world, and Gonggong, he is the rebel of this world, even if he fails, he is not afraid of power.
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