Legend of the creation of man: How did Nuwa create man, and how did Nuwa create man?

Using the self as a sample, using the soil and her blood as the material, and then with the mud, I pinched it out.

Sprinkled with mud all over the land of China, people appeared.

This is a Chinese myth and legend, not a scientific fact, but an imagination or speculation about the progress of social and historical development in the pre-ancient period when science was extremely backward and poor.

Translation:

Folklore has it that at the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, there was no state on the earth to burn human beings, and it was Nuwa who kneaded the loess into a ball to create people. She was busy and tired, and she tried her best to catch up with **. So she took the rope and threw it into the mud, and when she lifted the rope and threw it, the mud fell to the ground, and she became a person.

Later generations said that the rich and noble people were made by Nuwa herself, while the poor people were just made by Nuwa dipping the mud with a rope and sprinkling the mud on the ground.

Original text: As the saying goes, there is no people, and Nuwa is a man who rubs the loess. The drama is overwhelmed, but the rope is drawn in the mud and raised as a person. Therefore, the rich and noble, the loess people; The poor and lowly are also the leading people.

Historical Background:

Although this story depicts Nuwa's creation of human beings in a positive way, showing the status of Nuwa's first grandmother as a godhead, there is no doubt that it has been branded with the shadow of human social changes.

"Rubbing loess as a man" is considered to be the projection of the invention of pottery technology in the history of human culture in mythology, and the distinction between rich and poor created by human beings is a reflection of human beings entering a hierarchical society. This shows that once a myth leaves its own soil of growth, its form will take on a new posture with the new land of growth.

At the same time, Nuwa is also the god of marriage for the continuation of human beings. "Customs and Customs" cloud: "Nuwa prays to the gods of the shrine and prays for being a female medium."

Because of the faint marriage. Luo Mi believes: "With its medium, it is a country in the future, and it is the god of the sedan chair for Gao, because of the ancestral shrine."

This should be the trace of the myth of Nuwa's marriage after human beings entered the marriage system.

It should be: It is to lead the rope in the mud, and lift it up as a man.

But she drew the rope into the mud, and lifted it up as a man: she took the rope and threw it into the mud, and lifted the rope and threw it off, and the mud fell to the ground, and became a man.

Source: "Taiping Yulan" volume 78 quotes "Customs and Customs" cloud:"As the saying goes, the world is opened, there are no people, and Nuwa is a man with loess. drama affairs; The strength is overwhelming, but the rope is drawn into the mud, and the person is lifted"。This is Nuwa's theory of creating man from the soil.

The ancient book of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Customs and Customs" has the following records about Nuwa's creation of people:

According to folklore, when the world was opened, there were no human beings on the earth, and Nuwa kneaded the loess with her hands to create human beings.

Because she was too busy with work, her strength was far from keeping up with the needs of nature for human beings, so she attracted a rope to put it into the mud, and then lifted the rope and swung it, and the mud droplets that splashed down became living people.

Later, people said that the rich and noble people were made of loess by Nuwa; The poor and lowly people are the ones that Nuwa became from the mud spots splashed by throwing the rope.

Nuwa created people: Before Nuwa created people, she created chickens on the first day of the first lunar month, dogs on the second day of the first lunar month, sheep on the third day of the first lunar month, pigs on the fourth lunar month, cows on the fifth lunar month, horses on the sixth lunar month, and on the seventh day of the lunar month, Nuwa used loess and water to create small clay figurines in her own appearance. In order to keep mankind on forever, she created a wedding gift, and acted as a matchmaker herself, so that people could understand how to create people, and pass on the legacy with her own strength.

God created man: After making the heavens and the earth and all things, he created man on the sixth day.