Chinese culture has a long history, and many classic mythological images are dotted among them, constituting a mysterious and colorful side of Chinese culture. The mythological image pins on the common people of various dynasties, and the beautiful sustenance on the current politics, society, and humanities at that time. There are also some literary figures with their real archetypes worth exploring. In this issue, we will boldly speculate about the truth that Nuwa may have to make up for the heavens.
The deification of the Nüwa clan lies in his creativity, such as making people, making music, giving wine, and the most mythical heavenly supplementation. These behaviors are actually inseparable from one thing, that is, clay or clay, which shows that Nüwa is actually a potter who is good at making models and giving uses to clay. In fact, in the ancient clans, clans with specialties abounded, such as Shennong Shan Seed, Descendants Good Hunting, Dayu Shan Water Conservancy and so on. Nuwa's expertise can be summarized as good manufacturing, and has a certain knowledge of chemistry and genetics.
In terms of patching up the heavens, the approximate experience of the Nüwa patching up the heavens is like this, and the legend says that the co-workers have always been at odds with the mole, and there was an earth-shaking war, and finally ended up with the failure of the co-workers and angrily crashed into the Buzhou Mountain. But this touch was not possible, and the collapse of the Buzhou Mountain caused a hole in the sky and the flood water tilted down. Nuwa mined five-colored stones to make up for the sky and folded the feet of the turtle to support the four poles, only to solve the crisis of one side.
From the mythological point of view, nuwa has boundless divine power and can fly up to the heavenly dome to replenish the sky, but this may really be a misunderstanding. Take off the cloak of mythology, the story might look like this.
One day in ancient times, a meteorite descended from the sky, and there may have been nine meteorites, and the descendants of the good hunters shot down nine with their bows and arrows (it may also be a coincidence that the meteorite entered the atmosphere and exploded. However, the meteorite that was shot caused a large forest fire, in which many ferocious animals that were driven out began to attack humans and grab food, and the warlike Yanhuang tribe began to fight various monsters, while the Nuwa clan was a matriarchal clan, with poor combat effectiveness and disaster avoidance, and could only hide in a relatively strong cave to survive.
At this time, a meteorite fell on the top of the cave of the Nüwa clan, (the co-worker is the god of fire, the image is the body of the human head and snake, especially like the meteorite that crossed the sky dragging a long comet tail) caused a crack in the roof of the cave that was originally strong, which may be a branch of the underground river, so the cave roof began to leak, if it is not stopped, not only the winter food is washed away, but also the person may be drowned. At this time, the leader of the Nuwa clan came forward and used the rough gypsum collected in the mountains to dissolve the gypsum with a simple refining method, blocking the leakage of the cave roof and saving the clan from flooding. Due to the large number of impurities in the rough plaster collected at that time, it looks like five-colored stone. In order to prevent the cave from collapsing again, the patriarch of Nuwa also held the roof of the cave with a stone pillar thick in the thigh.
Some people will wonder, is not to say that the patch is the sky, why it has become a patch cave, this has to start from the change of our country's writing, the heaven in the ancient seal characters, refers to, the head is the sky, that is, outside, there is nothing on the head, that is, the sky on the head, empty, so we are talking about the sky. In the cave, the top of the cave is the sky, which refers to the things on the head.
After the catastrophe, the Nuwa clan lost a lot of population, and if the population is not replenished, the clan is likely to be destroyed. Therefore, as a female tribe, the Nüwa clan decided to intermarry with other clans of the male tribe, which is another contribution of Nüwa - Nüwa High Medium. Intermarriage, to have children, how many births, how many deaths, there must always be a record, so the Nuwa clan uses the soil to record the number of the entire clan, there is an adult, that is, a big clay man, a small clay man, open up the census of ancient generations, other clans are not clear, can only understand the part of the see, just think, the Nüwa clan to increase the population is by pinching the mud people.
By constantly improving the skills of clay making, Nuwa found that some empty clay sculptures, blown with their mouths, would make sounds, and if different holes were added, there would be different sounds, and the earliest musical instrument - Tao Xi was created. Then, nuwa made a vessel with dirt, there is likely to be yeast in the soil, plus jelly can not eat the rotten fruit, the first wine was born, for ancient humans, this sweet but mellow drink, is very distinctive, but it is not delicious, so there is an allusion to the wine given by Nüwa.
The occurrence of the above things, the epitome of ancient life, human beings and the environment to do struggle, constantly create and spread new ideas and science and technology, is the picture of the life of ancient human beings, in fact, after putting aside the mythological color, the Nuwa clan, is also a very great clan, without these scientific and technological improvements, there would be no our wonderful Chinese civilization.