The Legend of Fire the title is sufficient The legend of fire

The Story of Prometheus (Unit 7 of the second volume of the fifth grade).

At first, primitive man had enough of the fire. The fire destroyed the forest where they lived, causing them to flee in all directions. Many people even perished in the fire.

But bad things can also be turned into good things. After a fire, the primitives found many burned beasts. They had no trouble filling their bellies and had a big discovery:

Grilled meat is much tastier than raw meat. The embers of the fire made people feel warm, and everyone was reluctant to leave it. Fire can keep warm, which is another way people know about fire.

In this way, the older people try to introduce the fire into the cave. They gradually learned that if they put the fire on the dead branches and leaves, they would ignite a bigger fire. The more firewood you throw in, the more the fire burns.

The fire made the cold cave warm and bright. What surprised the primitive people even more was that with the fire, the beasts that robbed the cave with humans did not dare to break in.

In this way, humans gradually learned to use fire for warmth, lighting, barbecuing food, and driving away wild beasts. The first person in the world to use fire was the Chinese Yuanmou ape-man, who lived about 1.7 million years ago. In 1965, several young geologists found fossils of this ape-man and a large amount of charcoal chips left over from burning in Yuanmou County, northern Yunnan Province.

When primitive people used fire, they also gradually learned to preserve fire. 500,000 years ago, Peking Man already had the ability to manage fire and preserve fire.

Humans have been making fire since about the middle of the Paleolithic period. When making stone tools, the stones collide with each other, often sending out sparks. Once, twice, thousands of times, and it didn't go unnoticed.

Occasionally, someone hit the flint with pyrite or hematite, and the sparks burst out and fell on the dry pile of leaves and set it on fire. People were inspired, found the same stones, experimented again and again, and finally learned to make fire by ramming. At the end of the Paleolithic period, friction was found to make fire, using two pieces of wood rubbing against each other to make fire.

This makes the use of fire more convenient and widespread. In the process of conquering nature, human beings have turned myths into reality, and they no longer have to go through hardships and sacrifice their lives to steal fire like Prometheus.

The manufacture of fire was a great invention, and Engels regarded it as "the beginning of human history".

Prometheus.

Prometheus (Ancient Greek: In Greek mythology, he was one of the gods of the Titans, and his name means "forethought". The sons of Gaia, the mother of the earth, and Themis and Iapetus, the daughters of Ouranos, the heavenly father.

Prometheus taught humanity a lot. Zeus forbade humans to use fire, so he helped humans steal fire from Olympus, thus angering Zeus. Zeus chained him to the cliffs of the Caucasus Mountains, sent an eagle every day to eat his liver, and made his liver grow again every day.

Thousands of years later, Hercules came to the edge of a cliff in search of the golden apple, shot the eagle to death, and had the centaur Ciron replace Prometheus. But he must always wear an iron ring with a stone from the Caucasus Mountains set on it.

There is a legend in China that the Suiren clan drilled wood to make fire, and there is a legend in the West that Prometheus stole the heavenly fire!

According to legend, the eldest son of the five emperors in the primitive society, the emperor of the Gaoyang clan was the queen, and the son of the emperor was named in Shangqiu, specializing in the management of fire, called "Huozheng". In that long ancient era, the grasslands were flooded, the wind and sand obscured the sun, and it was not easy to preserve the precious fire under very difficult conditions.

However, he was able to preserve the fire intact and pass it on to the people from generation to generation. After the death of the uncle, the descendants called him the god of fire, built a platform to bury here, because the uncle managed the fire meritorious, then built the temple on the platform, enshrined the statue of the god of the fire.

Since ancient times, the local people have gone to the fire temple on the seventh day of the first month every year to worship the fire god, forming a grand ancient temple fair to worship the fire god. The flame of the 10th National Games was taken from the Vulcan platform in Nanjing, Beijing and Shangqiu. The fire of the first tour of the 92 Yellow River Journey is also collected from this sacred fire altar.

Greek mythology - at first, human beings lived a life of fur and blood, Prometheus saw that human beings lived very hard, stole fire from Olympus to make human civilization progress, but he himself was punished by Zeus and tied to a mountain cliff, Zeus sent an eagle to eat his liver every day, but let it grow again, day after day, year after year.

It must have been two stones that came together and there was a light that was seen by the primitive man at the time, and he took it to play, and when he played, he had the fire that is now there.

The name "Prometheus" means "foreknowledge" and "foresight". It is said that Prometry thought that Sakura Takasius was a man who created man with mud and water with the help of his younger brother, and stole the heavenly fire and gave it to mankind. The celery manuscript also imparted various skills and knowledge to mortals, so that mankind had a culture.

He stole the heavenly fire and angered the god-king Zeus, so he was locked on the cliff of the Caucasus, and every day the Dao Condor pecked at the liver, and the wound healed at night, and was pecked again in the morning. Prometheus was tortured for 30,000 years, but he remained resolute and unyielding. Later, when the Greek hero Hercules passed through the Caucasus Mountains, he shot the Condor with an arrow and liberated Prometheus, who Max praised as "the noblest saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar."

This legend has a strong mythological overtone, and of course it is not believable.

In our country, there are also various myths and legends about the origin of fire. For example, according to the "Southwest Yi Zhi", there was a god dressed in gold, carrying a gold and silver staff, he dug a gold and silver pit at the Nantianmen, pried up a white stone, and the flames came out like a mist, and sparks sprayed into the earth like meteors, which means that the fire is shown by the gods in the sky, but it is not stolen.