There is a goddess, Nu Wa, walking on the vast Yuan Ye. She looked around, the mountains were rolling, the rivers were running, the jungle was dense, the vegetation was in full bloom, birds were flying in the sky, animals were running on the ground, fish were playing in the water, and insects were jumping in the grass. It is said that the world is also beautifully decorated. But she always feels a kind of unspeakable loneliness. The more she watched it, the more bored she became, and her loneliness became stronger and stronger. Even she can't figure out why.

Tell Shan Ye about her irritability, and Shan Ye can't understand her at all; Insects, fish, birds and animals pour out their worries, how can they understand her distress? She sat slumped by the pond, staring at her own shadow in the pond.

Suddenly a leaf fell into the pool, and a small ripple appeared on the still water, which made her shadow shake slightly. She suddenly felt that the knot in her heart was untied, yes! Why does she have that kind of unspeakable loneliness? It turns out that the world lacks a creature like her.

Thinking of this, she immediately dug some dirt by the pool, filled it with water, and pinched it according to her own shadow. He felt very happy.

Pinch, pinch, pinch into a small thing, similar in appearance to Nu Wa, but also with five senses, two hands and two feet. After kneading, I put it on the ground and actually came back to life. When Nu Wa saw it, she was filled with joy, and then she squeezed a handful. She calls these little things "people"

The first batch of ancient books records about the myth of Nuwa, such as Shan Hai Jing and Chu Ci in the pre-Qin period (although Shuo Wen Jie Zi recorded a word in the works written by Zhou Xuanwang Taishizhen at the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it has been lost and only a rumor). Although the records in these two books are still vague, today many people are convinced of their divine intention to create mankind.

Mr. Yuan Ke interpreted "Nu Wa has a body, who can make it" in "Songs of the South" as "Nu Wa made someone else's body, and who made her body". Mr. Ding Shan thought these two sentences clearly: "(At least) during the Warring States Period, the story of Nuwa's creation of human beings has been widely circulated in China.

The myth that Nu Wa created man was recorded in the pre-Qin period.

As for how Nu Wa made people, Ying Shao's "General Meaning of Customs" in the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded that when there were no human beings at the beginning of the world, Nu Wa made people from loess. However, the work was too heavy for Nu Wa to carry, so she stuck mud on the rope instead.

Different practices make different people, rich and smart people are made, and mediocre people without money are left behind. The myth that Nu Wa created man has been passed down from generation to generation, and the plots are also different. For example, in another myth, Nu Wa basks in the sun with a clay figurine. Unexpectedly, it rained heavily. Some clay figurines were transported to safe places, while others were paralyzed by the rain. This is the reason why there are disabled people in the world.

These myths face the polarization between the rich and the poor, the difference between wisdom and stupidity and disability in social reality and explain them. Although they have the characteristics of fatalism, they also reflect people's psychology and cognition of related issues in a specific era.

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Admire Nu Wa and gather spiritual strength-People's Network