Short Chinese mythological stories in 40 words?

Chinese Folk Myth Story 1

Nuwa Makes Man

Nuwa, the goddess of creation in ancient Chinese mythology. She personifies all things and creates at least seventy things every day, opening the world to creation, and is therefore known as the Mother of the Earth. According to legend, Nuwa created and built human society by making man out of clay modeled after herself; she also established the marriage system for human beings, so that young people of both sexes could marry each other and reproduce, and was therefore also said to be the ancient god of the Gaosu Reclaiming Sacrifice, which is the main duty of marriage and love.

Nuwa is the mother of the Chinese nation, the first of the Chinese humanities, and the god of blessings and blessings. She created life kindly and bravely took care of the living beings from natural disasters. She is the god of creation and the mother goddess of the beginning of the world, which is widely and long worshipped by the people. The story of Kuafu Chasing the Sun

The story of Kuafu Chasing the Sun first came from the Chinese pre-Qin wondrous book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". It is said that in the era of the Yellow Emperor's dynasty, one of the chiefs of the Kuafu tribe wanted to remove the sun and put it into the heart of human beings, and so he started to chase the sun. After he drank the Yellow River and the Wei River dry when he was thirsty, he was ready to go to the great lake (or sea) in the north to drink, and he died of thirst while running in the path of the Great Zephyr. His walking stick was transformed into Denglin, which became the peach blossom garden for human beings; and his body was transformed into Mount Kuafu. It is generally believed that the story of Kuafu chasing the sun reflects China's simple personality of courage, lightness and love, which is based on the principle of "Heaven walks with health" and "Gentlemen are self-reliant". The perfect desire of the ancient Chinese ancestors to overcome the predicament of nature and pursue light.

Chinese Folk Myth Story 3

Jingwei reclaims the sea

The story of Jingwei reclaims the sea is from the ancient Chinese book "Classic of Mountains and Seas". According to legend, the sun god Yan Di had two daughters, the name of the eldest daughter was Yao Ji, and the name of the youngest daughter was Nuwa. For a long time living in the Palace of boredom, one day, the female child boat tour of the East China Sea and drowning, its uneven elves into a flower head, white beak shells, red claws of a bird, perched in the hair of the Hat Mountain, issued a "Jingwei, Jingwei" of the lamentation, the people will be called this bird Jingwei bird. The bird flew from Hatake Mountain to the East China Sea, vowing to fill the East China Sea with grass and stones.

Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty said in his poem: "Jingwei will fill the sea with micro wood. Later generations often use the idiom of "Jingwei reclaiming the sea" as a metaphor for a set eternal goal, backed by the spirit of perseverance.