What are the ancient myths and stories in China?

1, Goddess of Mending Heaven: One of the ancient myths and legends in China, Nu Wa, the goddess of creation, is the god who opened the Chinese nation's humanities and blessed the country.

According to legend, Nu Wa made man from earth and turned everything into life, so the world was no longer silent.

Nu Wa, the creator of the world, is called the mother of the earth. She is a beautiful goddess, slim as a snake, so that some mythologists insist that she is just a snake.

In all the ancient myths and legends of China people, some have their prototype figures, and they are all tribal groups and leaders who have made great contributions to mankind in ancient times.

In order to commemorate their achievements, later generations mythologized them.

2. Nu Wa created human beings: one of the ancient myths and legends in China, Nu Wa, the goddess of creation, can create at least 70 things every day, so she is called the mother of the earth. She is an ancient goddess. According to legend, Nu Wa created human beings by imitating her own soil, and created and constructed human society. It also established a marriage system for human beings, enabling young men and women to marry each other and reproduce, so it was also known as the ancient god of love and marriage.

3. Shennong tasted a hundred herbs: The story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs is a famous ancient myth and legend in China.

Shennong, originally from Huang San, was born in a cave in Lieshan Mountain. It is said that he is an ox head.

Because of his special appearance, hard work and courage, he was promoted to tribal leader when he grew up. Because his tribe lives in the hot south, it is called Yandi, and everyone calls him Yandi.

Once, when he saw a bird holding a seed, he invented grain agriculture. Because of these outstanding contributions, everyone also called him Shennong.

4. Kuafu in the daytime: Kuafu in the daytime is a fairy tale in ancient China, which comes from Shan Hai Jing Overseas North Jing.

According to legend, in the era of the Yellow Emperor, a leader of Kuafu clan (Kuafu) wanted to pick the sun and put it in people's hearts, so he began to live day by day.

When I was thirsty, I drank all the Yellow River and Weishui, and prepared to go to the Great Lakes (or osawa) in the north to drink water. He died of thirst on the road in a daze.

His walking stick became a peach grove and a peach garden; His body became Mount Kuafu.

5. Reclamation by Jingwei is one of the ancient myths and legends in China. According to legend, Jingwei was originally the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan Shennong, named Nuwa. One day, the girl visited the East China Sea and drowned. After his death, his uneven spirit became a bird with a flower head, a white shell and red claws. Every day, he brought stones and plants from the mountains and threw them into the East China Sea, and then let out a cry of "Jingwei, Jingwei", as if calling himself.

6. Pangu created the world: A long time ago, heaven and earth were inseparable and the universe was chaotic.

There was a giant named Pangu who slept in this chaos for eighteen thousand years.

One day, Pangu suddenly woke up.

When he saw the darkness around him, he waved a big axe and cut at the darkness in front of him.

There was only a loud noise, and the chaotic things gradually separated.

Bright and clear things, slowly rising, became the sky; Heavy and muddy things, slowly falling, became the ground.

After the separation of heaven and earth, Pangu was afraid that they would meet again, so he held his head high and stepped heavily on the ground.

The sky rises ten feet every day, and Pangu grows taller with it.

In this way, I don't know how many teenagers passed, and heaven and earth gradually took shape, and Pangu fell down with fatigue.

7. Emperor Yan hit a stone to make a fire: the earliest fires used by humans were all natural fires (mostly caused by lightning strikes on trees). A man thinks that man can't always rely on natural fire, so he decides to create a way to make a fire. In a hunting, he missed a stone javelin and missed the prey, but he found that the javelin would produce sparks when it hit the stones on the ground, so he picked up many stones there for experiments. As a result, he succeeded in getting the fire. Because he found a way to make a fire, all the tribes unanimously supported him as king. This man is Emperor Yan, and fire is king. Later, he created farming methods and taught human beings to farm, so he was also called Shennong.

8. Houyi Shooting the Sun: Houyi Shooting the Sun is an ancient myth and legend in China.

In ancient times, there was a serious drought on the earth.

The heat scorched the forest, dried the land, dried the seedlings and plants.

It turned out that Di Jun and he had 10 children, all of whom were grandchildren. They live in OOCL, and there is a big tree called Fusang in the sea.

10 The sun sleeps under the branches and runs out in turn to be on duty in the sky and shine on the earth.

But sometimes, they come out together and bring disaster to mankind.

In order to save mankind, Hou Yi drew an arrow with a bow and shot it at nine suns.

I saw an exploding fireball in the sky and fell three feet.

Finally, there is only one sun left in the sky.

9. Xingtian Dance: Xingtian is a headless giant mentioned in Shan Hai Jing. He was originally a subordinate of Emperor Yan.

After Emperor Yan was defeated by the Yellow Emperor in the Battle of Hanquan, Xingtian followed Emperor Yan to settle in the south.

At this time, Chiyou took revenge. Xingtian wanted to take part in the war, but was stopped by Emperor Yan.

Later, Chiyou was razed to the ground by the Yellow Emperor. In a rage, Xingtian took an axe and killed him outside the worse gate of heaven, naming him to fight against the Yellow Emperor alone.

Finally, Xingtian was defeated and beheaded by the Yellow Emperor.

Xingtian, who has no head, did not die, but stood up again, taking the two nipples on his chest as eyes and the navel as his mouth; Hold a shield in your left hand and an axe in your right.

Because he has no head, he can only fight the invisible enemy forever, forever.

10, goddess of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon: Chang 'e, the moon fairy in China mythology.

In Shan Hai Jing, Hou Yi and the wife of the Emperor of Heaven in the Middle Ages were called Heng E (Heng E) because of her extraordinary beauty. In the Western Han Dynasty, in order to avoid China Emperor Liu Heng, Chang 'e was changed to Chang 'e and became Chang 'e.

Others call it Chun Hu.

The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon is a myth in ancient China. It tells the story that Chang 'e was forced by Feng Meng, but in desperation, she ate an elixir given by the Queen Mother of the West to her husband Hou Yi and flew to the Moon Palace.

The myth of "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" originated from the ancient people's worship of the stars. According to the existing written records, it first appeared in ancient books such as Huainanzi.