Myth is also a kind of cultural heritage, what are the ancient myths and legends about Nüwa?

Ancient myths and legends about Nuwa:

Nuwa created man

Legend has it that one day, she passed by the banks of the Yellow River and remembered that since the beginning of the world, she had created mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, birds and animals, and had changed the world that was originally silent once again.

But Nuwa always felt that there was something missing in the world, but she could not remember what it was. When she looked down and saw her own reflection in the waters of the Yellow River, she suddenly came to a realization.

The world is still missing someone like herself. So Nuwa fabricated clay figures from the mud of the Yellow River with reference to her own appearance, and then exerted her divine power, and the clay figures became human beings.

Nuwa's Higher Media

Nuwa made women and men, and Nuwa thought that since they were human beings, there would be a day when they would die. It would be too much trouble to make another batch after they died. Therefore, Nuwa went to the gods to arrange for the marriage of men and women, and to make people unite, so there is marriage, so it is also regarded as the god of the Gaosu heir of the main duty of marriage and love.

Nuwa mended the sky

According to the Huainan Zi, "The Discourse of the Underworld" and other texts, in ancient times, the four pillars of the sky tumbled down, the land in the nine states was cracked and destroyed, fires were spreading, and flooding was not stopping.

Nuwa could not bear to see mankind suffer, so she made five-colored stones to mend the sky, folded the feet of the divine turtle to support the four poles, and leveled the floods to kill the beasts, so that mankind was able to live in peace.

Extended information:

After the opening of heaven and earth, the half-snake goddess, Nuwa, created mankind, and whenever demons ravaged the earth, she stood up to save the people. One time, people do not respect the sky to provoke the wrath of heaven; the emperor of the sky sent all the evil stars, evil gods down to disturb the four directions, and make ****工发天河之水淹灭神州.

The gods of the four directions had to avoid the heavenly realm, but Nvwa stayed on earth to prevent the gods and demons from harming the earth. The gods were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux, and they were all in a state of flux.

The Heavenly Emperor was enraged, so he broke the mound of Jianmu and cut off the ladder to heaven. Thousands of years later, the people of the four divine states.

No more persecution from the gods and demons, people have forgotten the existence of this goddess, but the legend of the half-snake female snake, still circulating in the southern Miao.

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