In addition to Nuwa and God creating man, other legends of man made out of clay

Roman mythology, Prometheus created man.

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.

Nuwa created people: Before creating people, Nuwa 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 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 going on forever, she created the wedding ceremony of the king, and acted as a matchmaker herself, so that people could understand how to create people and pass on their ancestry with their own strength.

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

Nuwa's creation of man is not a folk tale, but a mythological story. Nuwa is about a goddess named Nuwa, who couldn't bear the pain of loneliness, so she used soil and water to pinch many villains like herself. Nuwa breathed on them, and they all came to life, and Nuwa created humans.

Zhen Zao Zen. The first ancient books of Nuwa's creation of people recorded the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Chu Ci" in the pre-Qin period.

Nuwa is the mother of the Chinese nation, the ancestor of the Chinese nation's humanities, and the righteous god of blessing Sheji. She lovingly created life and bravely cared for them from natural disasters, and was the creator god and the first mother goddess who was widely and long-worshipped by the people. Therefore, since the Qin and Han dynasties, people have set the seventh day of the first lunar month of each year as the "human day".

Translation of "Nuwa Creates Man" in "Customs and Customs": 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. She was so busy with her work that she believed that the strength of one man could not keep up with the needs of nature, so she drew a rope into the mud and lifted it with a swing.

The mud drops that splashed down also turned into living people. Later, people said that the rich and noble people were made by Nuwa by rubbing the loess, and the poor people were made by the mud spots splashed by Nuwa throwing the rope.

The relevant text in "Customs and Customs" is very brief, and later generations further imagined why Nuwa created people, how to create people, how to create more people, and how to let human beings multiply by themselves. The imagination is bold, but it is also more realistic, and the plot is more reasonable.

Nuwa's creation embodies the precious spirit of creation and exploration of human beings, which is exactly what we urgently need today. Nuwa's diligence, wisdom and perseverance are the embodiment of the great national spirit of the Chinese nation.

The legend of Nuwa making man from the earth is similar to God's theory of creating man:

They all believe in God; Correctly explained natural phenomena; All of them were the products of the extremely underdeveloped productive forces at that time; They all chose to make people out of clay.

The difference between the legend of Nuwa who created man from earth and the theory that God created man:

Nuwa is more responsible for creating man than God. In the process of creating human beings, Nuwa asked people of higher divine positions for the qualification to be "matchmakers", and she allowed human men and women to marry and continue to reproduce, so that human beings could continue to reproduce forever. Apparently God had never done such a thing, and he even told Adam not to eat of the tree of wisdom.

The story of Nuwa's creation of man:

Legend has it that after the great hero Pangu opened the world, Nuwa traveled everywhere between heaven and earth. One day, as she walked on the lonely land, she felt very lonely in her heart, and she felt that she should add something more lively between heaven and earth. She decided to use the soft mud from the riverbed to knead the clay figurines according to her shape.

Nuwa was ingenious, and in a short time she made a lot of clay figurines. The clay figurines were almost identical to her, except that she had made them legs that matched their hands in place of dragon tails.

Nuwa breathed into the little clay figurines, and the little clay figurines were infused with vitality and "lived" into a group of small things that could walk upright, could speak, and were smart and dexterous, and Nuwa called them "people". Nuwa injected yang energy into some of them, an aggressive male element of nature, and they became men; In others, she was infused with yin, a supple feminine in nature, and they became women.

Nuwa wanted to spread humans across the vast land, but she was tired and did it too slowly. So, she came up with a shortcut. She lowered a straw rope into the silt at the bottom of the river and turned it around until the lower end of the rope was covered with a layer of dirt.

Then, she lifted the rope and swung it to the ground, and wherever there were mud spots, they became small people. In this way, Nuwa created people all over the earth.

With humans on earth, it seems that the work of the god Nuwa can be stopped. But she had a new consideration: how can people survive well?

People will always die and lose, and it will be too troublesome to die a group and build another group. Therefore, the god Nuwa matched men and women into pairs, and told them to reproduce their own offspring and take responsibility for raising their offspring. In this way, human beings multiplied and multiplied, and increased day by day.