Legend has it that a long, long time ago, after Pangu separated the sky and earth, the earth was blessed with beautiful mountains and clear water, birds' twitter and the fragrance of flowers, but there were no human beings yet.
Heaven and earth gave birth to the goddess Nuwa, a beautiful goddess with a long tail.
Because there were no human beings at this time, Goddess Nuwa was a bit lonely.
One day, the goddess Nuwa glided over the earth, enjoying the beauty of nature.
She loved the trees and flowers and reveled in the dynamic birds, beasts, insects and fishes.
Since the intelligence of the birds, beasts, insects and fishes was far from being enough to satisfy her, she thought that the heaven and earth created by Pangu was not complete enough.
She wanted to create a kind of life that was superior to any creature, like a being that could dominate and manage everything in the world.
That way, there would be more than just weeds and flying birds and beasts, and the world would not be lonely and desolate.
One day, she was sitting and playing by a pond with her beautiful reflection in the water.
The goddess Nuwa went along beside the river pond, dug up some yellow clay with her hands, and poured stream water over it.
She pinched it in her own image, and after three pinches and two kneads, she made a little clay figure with four limbs and seven orifices.
She placed the clay figure on the ground, thinking that this clay figure should not only have life, but also have its own mind.
It would think just like her, including having worldly emotional desires and joys and sorrows.
The goddess Nuwa then blew a mouthful of immortal breath into the mudman's mouth, and the mudman instantly came to life, jumping and smiling and shouting, "Mummy, Mummy."
She liked this smart and lively little thing so much that she simply named it Man!
The goddess Nuwa was so happy that she squeezed and squeezed and squeezed, just refusing to rest.
Later, she took some of her yang energy and blew it on some clay figures.
Since the clay figures contained a kind of competitive male substance, these clay figures became men.
She then blew some of her yin energy on other clay figures, which contained a soft and gentle female substance, and they became women.
But the goddess Nuwa wanted to pinch more little people and spread them throughout the earth.
Frowning slightly, she felt that it was too inefficient to pinch them like this.
Seeing many thick vines, she simply pulled off a vine, dipped it in muddy water and flung it on the ground, splashing mud and water on the spot.
In this way, along with more and more mud people appearing, soon the footprints of humans, spread throughout the land.
Time went by year after year, people had their own children and lived in peace and prosperity, very happy and fulfilled.
In those days, there was neither exploitation nor masters and slaves, and everyone shared joys and sorrows and loved each other, just like brothers and sisters.
The only thing that disturbed them was that they were often bullied by nature.
One day, the god of water and the god of fire quarreled and fought.
They fought so hard that they could not be separated from each other.
At the end of the day, the god of fire, who represented light, defeated the god of water.
Being reluctant to lose, the water god became angry, and crashed headlong into the Buzhou Mountain in the west.
Half of the sky collapsed after the Water God's crash, revealing a big black hole.
Immediately after that, the dense mountains and forests burst into blazing fire, the broken ground spewing out surgy flood, instantly flooding the mountains and fields, and the earth turned into a vast expanse of water.
People began to live in this hellish world, without song, without joy.
The beautiful Nuwa was in tears as she watched her children suffer such hardships.
In order to benefit her children and grandchildren, she made up her mind to mend the broken sky.
She selected many five-coloured stones from the Great River, melted them into a gelatinous liquid with fire, and then used this liquid to fill the holes in the sky bit by bit.
Nuwa worked very hard and often sweated profusely, but she never complained.
After her hard work, the sky was finally repaired.
Seeing the beautiful sky, Nuwa's beautiful cheeks revealed a pleased smile.
Later, to prevent the sky from collapsing again, she killed a huge evil turtle in the East China Sea.
She chopped off its four big feet and used them as pillars of the sky, erected in the four positions of southeast, east, west, north and southwest, to hold up the whole sky.
Since then, the sky has never collapsed.
The goddess Nuwa also burnt the reed grass by the river into ashes and used the ashes to plug the cracks in the broken earth, and the raging flood gradually turned into a trickle of water.
Nuwa also killed the evil black dragon and drove away the man-eating demons.
These terrible calamities finally turned out to be solved at the hands of the great and loving goddess Nuwa.
From then on, the earth was full of life again and became beautiful again, with picturesque scenery, beautiful mountains and clear water, birds' twitter and the fragrance of flowers.
People began to live a happy life again with a thriving scene.
Seeing her children living happily, Nuwa was more than satisfied and then quietly left this earth...