The original text of Nuwa Creates People , the original content and translation of Nuwa Creation

1. As the saying goes, the world was opened up, and there were no people, and Nuwa (legend has it that she had a human face and a snake body and created human beings) rubbed the loess to be a man. Drama (busy work), overwhelmed (no extra strength to ** need), but to lead (pull, pull) the rope in the mud, as a person. Therefore, the rich and noble, the loess people; The poor and lowly are also the rope (rope) people.

Translation: Folklore says that at the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, there were no human beings on the earth, and it was Nuwa who kneaded the loess into a ball to create man. 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.

2. Original text: Nuwa prayed to the shrine and prayed for the female matchmaker, because of the marriage.

Translation: Nuwa prayed at the shrine and asked God to appoint her as a matchmaker. So Nuwa arranged for men and women to marry.

Original text of "Nuwa Creates People":

As the saying goes, when the sky is opened, there are 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.

Background: Legend has it that Nuwa used clay to create human beings by imitating herself, creating and constructing human society. He also established a marriage system for human beings, so that young people of both sexes can marry each other and reproduce offspring, so it is also said to be the ancient god of Gaoyu who is the master of marriage and love.

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.

Question 1: "Nuwa Creates People" is selected from** The author of this article, Yuan Ke, is a (mythology) scholar, and his representative works include "Ancient Chinese Mythology", "Selected Interpretations of Ancient Mythology", and "Notes on the School Posture of the Book of Mountains and Seas".

Ancient Chinese Mythology is the first monograph on ancient mythology of the Han people in China.

Question 2: Which book does Nuwa create and Dayu comes from? Nuwa created people from the Han Dynasty "Customs and Customs".

Dayu's water control comes from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Question 3: What is the author of the Nuwa creator, who is the famous family, and what is the goddess of the legendary Nuwa Pangu opened up the world and used his body to create the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, grass and trees. The turbid gas that remained between heaven and earth slowly turned into insects, fish, birds and beasts, adding vitality to this dead and silent world.

At this time, there was a goddess Nuwa, walking on this reckless field. She looked around, the mountains were undulating, the rivers were rushing, the jungles were lush and closed, the grass and trees were contending, the birds were flying in the sky, and the ground was flocking.

Nuwa created a man, a legend, a goddess.

Pangu opened up the world and used his body to create the sun, moon and stars, mountains, rivers and plants. The turbid gas that remained between heaven and earth slowly turned into insects, fish, birds and beasts, adding vitality to this dead and silent world. At this time, there was a goddess Nuwa, walking on this reckless field.

She looked around, the mountains were undulating, the rivers were rushing, the jungles were dense, the grass and trees were shining, the birds were flying in the sky, and the ground was flocking.

Question 4: The allusion of Nuwa's creation of man comes from** The first ancient books of Nuwa's mythology, such as the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Chu Ci" in the pre-Qin period (although "Shuowen Jie Zi" records that there is the word Wa in the works of Zhou Xuan Wang Tai Wu in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it is dead and is only a rumor). Although the records in the two books are still relatively vague and hazy, many people today affirm his intention to create man as the first mother godhead.

Mr. Yuan Ke understood that Nuwa in "Chu Ci Tianwen" has a body, and who can understand it as Nuwa made someone else's body, and who made her body. Mr. Ding Shan made it more clear that these two sentences showed that (at least) in the Warring States period the story of Nuwa had been widely spread by the Chinese.

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

So she took the rope and threw it into the mud, and lifted the rope and threw it into the mud, and when she lifted the rope and threw it, the mud fell on the ground several times, 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 empty search rope in the mud, lifting it as a person"。This is Nuwa's theory of creating man from the soil.

"Nuwa Creates People" tells people that they must be imaginative, creative, and have the ability to work.

The mythical story of "Nuwa Creates Man" is full of magical imagination, which casts a strange color on the understanding of ancient people and the growth and change of all things in the world.

Whether human beings were created by Nuwa or evolved from ape-man, whether it is the beautiful myths learned today or the scientific debates about the origin of human beings, they are all a series of footprints of people from different eras exploring the problems of life. It allows us to experience the pride of being human and makes us feel that life is so unique and beautiful.

Nuwa's Historical Status:

Nuwa is the common humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation and the mother of the Chinese nation. Nuwa culture has a long history, broad and profound, rich in content, and is an excellent traditional culture of the prehistoric civilization and the Chinese nation, as well as an important research object for the exploration of the origin of Chinese prehistoric civilization.

The ancient books of the pre-Qin period, such as "Shi Ji Zhang", "Chu Ci", "Records of Rites", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Huainanzi", and "Book of Han", "Customs and Customs", "Imperial Century", "Du Yizhi", "History of the Road", "Interpretation of History", "Historical Records" and other historical materials have records about Nuwa. It occupies an important place in the entire ancient culture series.