In ancient times,the four corners of the sky collapsed and the world with its nine regions spilt sky couldn't cover all the things under it,nor could the earth carry all the things on it.A grea fier raged and wouldn't die out,a fierce flood raced about and couldn't be ge beasts devoured innocent people,vicious birds preyed on the weak and old.
Then Nu Wa melted rocks of five colours and used then to mend the ceasks in he supported the four corners of the sky with the legs she had cut off from a giant killede the black dargon to save the people of Jizhou,and bloked the flood with the ashes of reeds.
Thus the sky was mended,its four corners lifted,the flood tamed,Jizhou pacified,and harmful birds and beasts killed,and the innocent people were able to live on the square earth under the dome of the was the time when birds,beasts,insects and snakes no longer used their claws or teeth or poisonous stings,for they didn't want to catch or eat weaker things.
Nu Wa's deeds benefited the heavents above and the earth name was remembered by later generations and her light shone on every creation.
the taihang and wangwu mountains, which had a periphery of seven hundred li and were a hundred thousand feet high, originally lay south of jizhou and north of heyang.
the foolish old man of the north mountain, nearly ninety years of age, lived behind these mountains. he was unhappy about the fact that the mountains blocked his way to the south and he had to walk round them whenever he went our or came back, so he called the whole family together to talk about the matter. “ what would you say,” he said to them,“if i suggest that all of us work hard to level the two mountains, so as to open a way to places south of yu prefecture and the han river?” many voices said they agreed to the idea.
but his wife had her doubts. “with your strength,” she said, “you could hardly remove a small hill like kuifu. what could you do with the taihang and wangwu mountains? besides, where could you dehref="https://mtfww.com/tags-25l6-0.html" target="_blank" >posit the earth and rocks.？”
“carry them to the shores of the bohai sea and north of yintu,” said several people.
the old man, helped by his son and grandson who could carry things, began to break rocks and dig earth, which they carried in baskets and dustbins to the shores of the bohai sea. the seven-year-old son of a widow named jingcheng, one of the old man's neighbours, came running up to offer his help. one trip to the sea took them a long time: they left in winter and came back in summer.
Legend has it that there are three gods into three of the elderly poor, to foxes, monkeys, rabbits for food, the fox and the monkey had food to relief, only rabbit be at a loss what to do. Then the rabbit said: “you eat my flesh!” it into the fire, will he cooked, fairy touched, put the rabbit to the palace of the moon, the moon. Company E, and ramming ever-young medicine.
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