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What are the similarities and differences between eastern and western legends about the origin of human beings? Please name two of them.

I. Similarities:

1, human beings are all created by God: China believes in the story that Nu Wa created human beings, while the West believes that God created human beings.

2. Everyone helped mankind through the fatal disaster: China believed that the goddess of mending heaven saved the peril and helped mankind through the crisis; In the west, there is a saying of Noah's Ark.

Second, the difference:

1, the origin of human beings is different: the East thinks that people are mass-produced, because the goddess Nu Wa is lonely. She fished out mud from the Yellow River to be a clay figurine, so that the first human appeared. Then she dipped branches in mud and threw them on the ground, and countless small mud spots formed many humans. Westerners were created by Adam and Eve, not by individuals.

2. Different grades: there are grades in the East, with Nu Wa holding nobles and ropes holding civilians; Western God created human beings without hierarchy or discrimination.

Extended data:

The reasons for the differences in the concept of origin between the East and the West;

1, God created man in his own image, which is the same.

Everyone is created or multiplied by God in his own image. God is undoubtedly sacred and dignified. Then, everyone who copies according to God's template should be sacred and full of dignity. There is no essential difference between people, and they all deserve equal treatment and respect. Man is the soul of all things and the success of natural talent.

2. There is a difference between Pangu and Nuwa.

In the story of Pangu's opening the sky, man was transformed from lice, fleas or bedbugs on his body after the death of the great leader Pangu. Of course, all beings do not have divinity. First of all, because of their poor background, these people used to be Pangu's "worms". It doesn't have the appearance of God, and it certainly can't have the vision, strength and wisdom of God.

Secondly, because of the relationship between all beings and Pangu, all beings, as Pangu's "flesh worm", are attached to the great man's body and sheltered by heroes. Of course, millions of grass-roots people can't talk about equality and dignity with God and those rulers who claim to be descendants of God.

People created by Nu Wa are also classified. One is carefully crafted according to its own appearance. This kind of person consumes a lot of God's efforts, and naturally has more wisdom and virtue than others. They and their descendants are born aristocrats. The second category is the mass-produced "people" of Nu Wa Niangniang. Because of the tight time and heavy tasks, their appearance may not be perfect.