Where did Pangu come from? What was the world like before Pangu opened heaven and earth?

Where did Pangu come from? What was the world like before Pangu's creation? The following series will give you detailed answers.

For a long time, in all kinds of ancient myths and legends in China, the origin of this world was created by Pangu. Because Pangu created heaven and earth, only the later Nu Wa created man, can she have everything in the future. Therefore, the creation of Pangu is regarded as the origin of Middle-earth in mythology. However, everything happened after Pangu, so what was before Pangu? What was the world like before Pangu's creation?

China has a long history and culture, as well as many legends and stories. Although there are few first-hand materials, they are all systematic and classified into books by word of mouth, which is convenient for people to study and study.

In many myths and legends, the ancestors talked about that Nu Wa created man and Pangu created heaven, but every time I mentioned these two stories, I would inevitably ask: Since Nu Wa created man, where did Nu Wa come from? Pangu opened the sky, so where did Pangu come from?

I think many people will have the same problem as me. In fact, not only modern people will be curious, but also ancient people will be curious. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan also asked similar questions.

Today, I want to talk about my own understanding of Pangu. Personal knowledge is shallow and limited. If there are any mistakes, I still want to point them out. But we only talk about myths and legends. Scientists who have read the Origin of Species, please turn to the field of science. I will tell you this legend. If you talk to me about science, it will be inhuman.

Qu Yuan prayed to heaven.

In his poems, Qu Yuan boldly questioned all the stories handed down and asked where he was during the Warring States Period. From myths and legends to the rise and fall of history, there is nothing you can't think of, and there is nothing Qu Yuan can't ask.

Asking questions means asking questions to heaven, but today is not our usual day, but the Taoist way. It is the general name of things and phenomena, and it is called law in ancient philosophy. In Tian Wen, Qu Yuan asked: How did heaven and earth form?

In ancient times, who passed it on? The top and bottom are shapeless, so why test them? Then, he changed from a question about heaven and earth to a question about myths and legends. He asked: Nu Wa has a body, which one can be a craftsman? I know that Nu Wa created human beings, but tell me, who created Nu Wa?

Is this similar to our previous question about Pangu? In fact, Qu Yuan's Song of JIU is a reflection and exploration of things that human beings don't understand. Qu Yuan is not the only one who has these problems. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, hundreds of schools have explored and answered these questions. For example, Lao Tzu explores the origin of everything.

Pangu created a world.

We are all very familiar with this legend. We heard it when we were very young, which shows that this place is still messy, just like an egg. A great god named Pangu woke up from his sleep. Seeing the chaos around him, he shouted: there must be light! Then he picked up the axe next to him, smashed it, and talked about chaos and division, clearing the air to heaven, sinking the air, and opening the world.

Afraid of the combination of heaven and earth, Pangu put his head in the sky and his feet on the ground. Since then, the height of Pangu has increased by one foot every day. Many, many years later, the structure between heaven and earth was stable, Pangu no longer needed to stand far away, and the Great God was too tired to fall down. After that, Pangu's breath turned into clouds, his voice into thunder, his eyes into the sun and the moon, his limbs into four poles, his blood into rivers and his sweat into rain and dew.

03 literature record

The legend of Pangu has been circulating for a long time, but it was not until the Three Kingdoms period that it was compiled into a book by a man named Xu zhēng. This is the third calendar in May, which records the historical legends since Pangu. This book has been lost now, some of which are included in descriptions of different records and can be circulated:

The world is a mess. Pangu was born here. Eighteen thousand years old. Open the world. Yang Qing is the sky. Cloudy is the ground. Pangu is inside. It changes nine times a day. God is in heaven. Holy land. The sky is one foot high. The soil is a foot thick. Pangu is ten feet long a day. So I'm eighteen thousand years old. There are many days. This land is deep. Pangu is very long. So, 90 thousand miles away. After that, it was Huang San.

Three Emperors and Five Emperors are long enough, but Huang San was born after Pangu created the world. If ranked by myth, Pangu is the first.

You should know that the author's book is not pieced together by his own imagination, but a collation of existing legends. Therefore, although the story of Pangu was first recorded in the Three Kingdoms period, it cannot be said that Pangu was created by people in the Three Kingdoms period.

Just like Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Mr. Pu Songling also made up many folk stories about ghost foxes, but it can't be said that Mr. Pu Songling created ghost foxes.

The origin of Pangu

Confucius said that he can only talk, and he can't add his own thoughts, create or record. Before Confucius, there were even fewer records, which brought difficulties to textual research. Many western countries don't recognize China's Xia Dynasty because there is no relevant written record.

When talking about the legend of Pangu, the famous scholar Mr. Lv Simian once said: Ziggy is very old and widely circulated, which shows that the legend of Pangu is not imaginary, but it is widely circulated because these stories came from a long time ago.

About the origin of Pangu, the general mainstream view is that it originated from Baiyue, which refers to the coastal area in the south of China, which is later called the barbarian land. A little more detailed is Guangdong, so some people say that Pangu is the ancestor of Cantonese. This statement is very consistent with the record in the story: the ancient country in the middle of the South China Sea ... Now, there is an ancient tomb in the South China Sea 300 miles away, and the descendants of the common cloud chase the soul of Pangu; There is Pangu Temple in Guilin, and people are going to worship it today.

A long time ago, deep in the South China Sea of China, there was a country called Pangu Kingdom. Until now, there are tombs and temples of Pangu, and people still have the custom of offering sacrifices to Pangu. According to the research of experts and scholars, Pangu Kingdom is located in Lushan, Guangdong Province, where the ancient Yao people live in compact communities. However, because China is too big, Pangu myth is not only circulated in Baiyue area, so this view is also controversial.

The mainstream thinks this statement is reliable. Because many historical sites related to Pangu culture have been found in Baiyue.

Is Pangu actually a monkey?

Rollo was originally a dog of Gao Xin's family. Gao Xin's family is the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and so is Di Ku, the ancient five emperors. According to legend, during the period of Di Ku, there was an uprising. Di Ku said, whoever can take off his head, I will seal him up with 2000 gold coins and marry his daughter.

Don't keep silent, even a barking dog will bite. When he heard Di Ku say this, he jumped up and bit the head of the rebel leader. What can Di Ku do? Di Ku was desperate, too. She can only marry her daughter to this dog as a wife. You know, there's a curse.

From then on, Luo Luo had his own fief, and the locals honored him as an ancestor, so he became a man.

The most popular place of this story also happens to be the southern minority areas. According to what we said before, Pangu originated from Baiyue and the homonym of Pangu and Pangu, some people concluded that Pangu was Pangu.

Mr Lv Simian said, nonsense! I also think Pangu is not the same thing. Think about it. Pangu is the god who opened heaven and earth. Pangu is only the ancestor of that man, one is an indomitable giant and the other is a dog. The gap is too big. It is too casual to judge the relationship between two people just because of homophonic.

Is Pangu a foreign god?

In addition, some scholars believe that the story of Pangu originated in India, because the period of May 3rd was the Three Kingdoms period. Before that, there was no legend of Pangu, and Buddhism was introduced to China only in the Han Dynasty. There are some similarities between the story of Pangu and the story of Buddhism.

This statement seems reasonable, but there is a core problem that cannot be explained: If Pangu began in the Three Kingdoms period, how did China people explain the formation of heaven and earth before the Three Kingdoms period?

In fact, all religions are related to myths, and it is not impossible to meet them by chance. As far as correlation is concerned, China's ancient philosophy is highly correlated with Pangu's creation. For example, before Laozi, heaven was the highest god. Since Laozi, people have been thinking and exploring the formation of heaven and earth: everything is mixed and born in nature. -Lao Tzu

07 ancient symbols

In ancient times, writing had not been created, and people could only pass it on by word of mouth. Simple things could be recorded with knotted notes. Therefore, since there are knotted notes, there must be other ways to remember them, such as carving a simple symbol on a stone or drawing a simple picture on a stone.

These symbols and paintings are extremely important materials for future generations to study the primitive ancestors' culture. On the unearthed bronze Fang Ding, there is a special ten symbols. After research by experts such as Guo Moruo, they determined that this symbol represents Pangu. Similarly, although symbols were found on bronze Fang Ding, it cannot be concluded that Pangu was born in the Bronze Age.

08 Yunnan Cangyuan Rock Painting

Archaeologists have found many murals in Cangyuan, Yunnan, among which 1063 has been confirmed. They are very important and precious historical materials with a history of at least 3000 years. Among them, people, animals, houses and trees are rich in content, including hunting, parties and war dances.

Most importantly, in one of the paintings, there is a man, one with an axe and the other with wood. His legs are upright and his head is still shining. This is very close to the image of Pangu, and the light on the head should represent the sun.

Malipo king rock painting

With the discovery of King Malipo's rock painting, scholars have never stopped interpreting it. More and more evidence shows that this myth originated a long time ago.

First of all, according to the literature, Pangu is an indomitable spirit. With the passage of time, Pangu's body will grow day by day, and there are two indomitable spirits in the rock paintings of the king.

Secondly, in the story meeting, it is clearly recorded that Pangu has a wife, and their husband and wife represent Yin and Yang. The two giants in Dawang's rock paintings have three fingers and four fingers respectively. According to the Yi-ology theory, 3 stands for yang and heaven, and 4 stands for yin and earth: heaven and earth; Three days and four days; Five days and six days; Seven days and eight days; Nine days, ten days-simple text upload

In addition, fingering is also a method in Yi-ology. Those fortune tellers, whether charlatans or real masters, will emphasize that they are proficient in the Book of Changes and pinch their fingers. The beginning of yin and yang of Pangu couple

It can be confirmed by archaeology that the mural of the king is the site of a new era, which can be described at least 10 thousand years ago. Therefore, regardless of Cangyuan rock paintings, Dawang rock paintings and mysterious symbols, it can at least prove that Pangu is an ancient mythical figure in China and a unique god in China, not an alien.

As for whether Pangu really exists, it is not important. Westerners believe that humans stole the forbidden fruit of Adam and Eve, and there are all kinds of creation legends in ancient Greece, all of which are the same. Myths and legends are people's thinking and exploration of the unknown. Ancestors endowed the unknown world with romantic and magnificent imagination, woven into myths and legends, which is a valuable cultural wealth of mankind.