Nüwa,mending the heaven. 女娲补天In very ancient times, Heaven broke and fell, 在极其遥远的古代,天空发生了坍塌,leaving a huge black hole. Humans were faced with the risk of extinction. 形成巨大的黑洞.人类面临灭绝的危险.Nüwa, the great mother of the human race, 伟大的人类之母女娲had to reorganize the Universe. 不得不整顿宇宙秩序.Nüwa brought five-coloured stones, 这时,女娲取来五种颜色的石头,melted them and used the colourful magma of Heaven to mend the black hole. 把石头熔炼成五彩岩浆,然后把岩浆涂抹在天空,补上了黑洞.Later,Nüwa repaired Earth, too. 补完天空以后,女娲又修补大地.In the end, Nüwa killed the black dragon that was threatening human beings. 最后,女娲擒杀了危害人类的黑龙.With the protection of Nüwa, 人类在女娲的保护下,human beings once again began to lead a happy and peaceful life. 重新过上了平安幸福的生活. 精卫填海The bird Jingwei trying to fill the seaonce upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose on the sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound "jinwei, jingwei". That was why people called it "Jingwei". The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea. One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up." Jingwei replied, "I'll fill you up no doubt! I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight on until doomsday!" The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.。
Nüwa,mending the heaven. 女娲补天In very ancient times, Heaven broke and fell, 在极其遥远的古代,天空发生了坍塌,leaving a huge black hole. Humans were faced with the risk of extinction. 形成巨大的黑洞.人类面临灭绝的危险.Nüwa, the great mother of the human race, 伟大的人类之母女娲had to reorganize the Universe. 不得不整顿宇宙秩序.Nüwa brought five-coloured stones, 这时,女娲取来五种颜色的石头,melted them and used the colourful magma of Heaven to mend the black hole. 把石头熔炼成五彩岩浆,然后把岩浆涂抹在天空,补上了黑洞.Later,Nüwa repaired Earth, too. 补完天空以后,女娲又修补大地.In the end, Nüwa killed the black dragon that was threatening human beings. 最后,女娲擒杀了危害人类的黑龙.With the protection of Nüwa, 人类在女娲的保护下,human beings once again began to lead a happy and peaceful life. 重新过上了平安幸福的生活. 精卫填海The bird Jingwei trying to fill the seaonce upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose on the sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound "jinwei, jingwei". That was why people called it "Jingwei".
The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.
One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up." Jingwei replied, "I'll fill you up no doubt! I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight on until doomsday!"
The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.
Nvwa Patches up the Sky Tousands years ago, the heavens Nvwa, who used the yellow soil to make clay children and gave out the life to them. From then on, Nvwa had created human beings.People had enjoyable life.However, there is a bad thing happened. One day, God Fire Zhurong and God Water Gonggong had a fight. Water Gonggong had broken the pillar for sky was knocked down. Half of the sky was fell down. The land have had lots of crevices and roads were leaked, the sea and fire flood on the earth. Nvwa wanted to save the human beings.She decided to use the 'Five-colours Stone' to srepair the sky, than use feet of God Tortoise to stand below the sky. The discover was nearly finished, but she found that there isn't enough 'Five-colours Stone' for repairing.The shy was still not finished yet. How could she do?Nvwa is forced to sacrifice for human's lifes, she used her body to repair the big hole. She tried several times, and finally finished repairing. The sky and ground recovered to quiet. Also, the 'five colours clouds had appeared. All the living things become nomal again.Unfortunately, Nvwa dead at that time. She became a legend. Nowadays, everybody knows her.。
女娲补天 Nu Wa Patches up the SkyA nearly female figure in Chinese mythology is the goddess Nu Wa (sometimes Nu Kua). According to one legend it was she who was the creator of mankind. The earth was a beautiful place with blossoming trees and flowers, and full of animals, birds, fish and all living creatures. But as she wandered about it Nu Wa felt very lonely. She bent down and took up a handful of earth, mixed it with water and molded a figure in her likeness. As she kneaded it the figure came alive -the first human being. Nu Wa was so pleased with her creation that she went on making more figures both men and women. They danced around her cheerily and loneliness was dispelled. Nu Wa is defined in China's earliest dictionary by the philologist Xu Shen ( c.58-147) as being " in charge of breeding of all living things", so possibly her origin is associated with fertility. In some versions of the legend Nu Wa is said to have been both the sister and the wife of Fu Xi, the legendary ruler who was credited with teaching man to domesticate animals and to have taught people matrimony. Nu Wa and Fu Xi were pictured as having snake like tails interlocked, with a child between them in an Eastern Han dynasty ( A. D. 25-220) mural in the Wu-liang Temple in Jiaxiang county, Shandong province. She was credited with, among other things, the invention of the sheng reed pipes. Another legend tells how she patched up the sky. Two deities, called in one version Gong Gong, the God of Water and Zhu Rong, the God of Fire were in battle. They fought all the way from heaven to earth, causing turmoil everywhere. The God of Fire won, and in anger the God of Water struck his head against Buzhou Mountain ( a mythical peak supposed to be northwest of the Kunlun range in southern Xinjiang ). The mountain collapsed and down came the big pillar that held heaven from earth. Half the sky fell in, leaving a big black hole. The earth cracked open, forests went up in flames, floodwaters sprouted from beneath the earth and dragons, snakes and fierce animals leaped out at the people. Many people were drowned and more were burned or devoured. It was an unprecedented disaster. Nu Wa was grieved that mankind which she had created should undergo such suffering. She decided to mend the sky and end this catastrophe. She melted together various kinds of colored stones and with the molten mixture patched up the sky. Then she killed a giant turtle and used its four legs as four pillars to support the fallen part of the sky. She caught and killed a dragon and this scared the other beasts away. The she gathered and burned a huge quantity of reeds and with the ashes stopped the flood from spreading, so that the people could live happily again. The only trace left of the disaster, the legend says, was that the sky slanted to the northwest and the earth to the southeast, and so, since then, the sun, the moon and all the stars turn towards the west and all the rivers run southeast. 中文参考: (1) 女娲炼石补天 据说女娲是个"人头蛇身"的女神。
天地初开时,没有人类,女娲游荡四方,感到十分寂寞。她在黄河边的一个浅滩上坐下的时候,看到河水映出自己的面影,突然来了灵感。
她顺手从地上抓起一把黄泥,放些水进去揉合揉合,仿照自己的容貌捏成一个娃娃样的小东西。
就把这些小东西叫做"人"。
引自"中国文化研究院" 网页 (/emperors/ruwa.htm(4) 。
传说她以黄土造人,炼五色石补天,折鳖足撑四极,平洪水杀猛兽,人类始得以安居。传说她是人首蛇身,在中国神话中,她用泥土创造了人类。
( 中国百科全书)。
Nvwa Patches up the Sky
Tousands years ago, the heavens Nvwa, who used the yellow soil to make clay children and gave out the life to them. From then on, Nvwa had created human beings.People had enjoyable life.
However, there is a bad thing happened. One day, God Fire Zhurong and God Water Gonggong had a fight. Water Gonggong had broken the pillar for sky was knocked down. Half of the sky was fell down. The land have had lots of crevices and roads were leaked, the sea and fire flood on the earth. Nvwa wanted to save the human beings.
She decided to use the 'Five-colours Stone' to srepair the sky, than use feet of God Tortoise to stand below the sky. The discover was nearly finished, but she found that there isn't enough 'Five-colours Stone' for repairing.The shy was still not finished yet. How could she do?
Nvwa is forced to sacrifice for human's lifes, she used her body to repair the big hole. She tried several times, and finally finished repairing. The sky and ground recovered to quiet. Also, the 'five colours clouds had appeared. All the living things become nomal again.
Unfortunately, Nvwa dead at that time. She became a legend. Nowadays, everybody knows her.
In remote antiquity, the four poles of the universe collapsed, the sky cracked open, the earth was no longer able to support everything, fire ran wild everywhere without ceasing, and flood overflowed out of control. Fierce beasts ate common people, and ferocious birds attacked the old and the weak. Hence, Nvwa smelted the five-colored stones to mend the sky, cut off the feet of the great turtle to support the four poles, killed the black dragon to help the earth, and gathered the ash of reed to stop the flood。
Distant past, supported the Quartet's four pillars heaven and earth upside down, the earth split; days can not be universal coverage of all things, real things can not be a comprehensive capacity-load; burned fiercely but not extinguished, the water flooded and not stop; ferocious beast eat good people, fierce birds with claws grab the elderly and children. At this point, Nu Wa smelting colored stones to mend the loopholes in heaven, cut off the feet of giant tortoises do prop up the Quartet, Optimus Prime, killing Black Dragon to save Jizhou, reed-gray to plug the flood. The sky has been repaired, re-erected the pillars of heaven and earth Quartet up, the waters receded, China's land restored formation, ferocious animals and birds are all dead, and kind-hearted people survive.。
1、女娲补天 英文: It is said that there was no man when the sky andthe earth were separated by Pangu. It was Nuwawho made human beings after her own model withyellow clay.From then on, man began to live in peace andhappiness on the earth. nexpectedly, one year, the fourpillars supportingthe heaven suddenly collapsed and the earthcracked. A great fire raged; torrential water flooded all the lands;fierce animals preyed on men. ThenNuwa melted fivecolored stones, using them to mend the cracks in the sky. To replace the broken pillars, she cut off the four legs of a huge turtle and used them tosupport the fallensky.Thus the sky was patched up, its four corners were lifted, the flood was tamed, harmful animalswere killed, and the innocent people were able to restore their happy lives. 中文: 盘古开天辟地后,世上本没有人,是女蜗按照自己的样子用黄 泥塑出了人类。
此后,人们便开始在大地上幸福的生活着。天有不测风云,一年, 忽然天崩地裂,大火肆虐,洪水滔天,野兽横行伤人。
女蜗把五彩石融化,再用这些熔化了的液体把天上的洞补好。然后,她又将一只万年巨龟的四足斩下,把它们用作擎天柱,支撑住了天地的四方。
就这样,天补好了,四个角撑住了,洪水被驯服, 猛兽被消灭,人类的生活又恢复到往日的幸福祥 和之中。 2、玉兔捣药 英文: 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. 中文: 相传有三位神仙变成三个可怜的老人,向狐狸、猴子、兔子求食,狐狸与猴子都有食物可以济助,唯有兔子束手无策。
后来兔子说:“你们吃我的肉吧!”就跃入烈火中,将自己烧熟,神仙大受感动,把兔子送到月宫内,成了玉兔。陪伴嫦娥,并捣制长生不老药。
3、精卫填海 英文: once upon a time, Yan has a small daughter, Her name is baby girl, he loved his little daughter, Yan often play with the girls, but the terrible thing happened, girls playing in the sea, unfortunately, dead water, and then She turned into a bird, named Jingwei, Yan sad day Jade Bird watching it, and finally decided to make this Jingwei filled the sea, so that he no longer claimed more lives! 中文: 从前,有1个女孩叫做精卫,她很爱自己的父亲炎帝,他们经常在一起玩,每天都很开心。有一天,精卫去划船,不小心掉进了海里,后来她变成了1只鸟。
她经常去看她的父亲,她的父亲为此很伤心。后来精卫决定用石子把那个海填起来。
4、夸父追日 英文: Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River. In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rivers. Though he drank up two rivers, he still felt thirsty, and he decided to go to the large lake in the north for a good drink. On the way to the north, Kua Fu eventually died of thirst. The walking stick thrown down by him, being nurtured by the nourishment converted from his dead body, unexpectedly bloomed and fructified, and it grew into peach woods, which stretched for thousands of miles. 中文: 夸父竭尽全力追赶太阳。当他追赶太阳降落的地方时, 由于忍受不了干渴,只好掉转头,回到黄河、渭河所在的地方,一口气便将这两条河里的水喝得精光。
虽然喝光了两条大河,但夸父还是感到不解渴,又打算到北方的大湖里去痛饮一番。北去的途中,夸父终因干渴而死。
扔下的手杖,被他的尸体所化成的养料滋润,竟然开花结果,长成一片连绵千里的桃林。 5、牛郎织女 英文: On the east bank of the heavenly river lived a girl weaver, daughter of the emperor of heaven. She worked hard year in and year out, weaving colorful clothes for gods and goddesses. Later she sneakly married the cowherd who is only a mortal and raised two children with him. However, goddess found the fact that she concealed. Greatly outraged, the goddess forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year. On the seventh day of each autumn, magpies would suddenly become bald-headed for no obvious reasons at all. According to legend, that day the cowherd and the weaver met on the east bank of the river, and magpies were made to form a bridge for them. And for this reason the down on their heads was worn out from book of plants and animals. 中文: 天河东岸住着一个女孩,她是天帝的女儿。
她年复一年地辛勤工作,为众神和女神编织丰富多彩的衣服。 后来,她偷偷嫁给了一个只是凡人的牛郎,并和他一起抚养了两个。
In remote antiquity, the four poles of the universe collapsed, the sky cracked open, the earth was no longer able to support everything, fire ran wild everywhere without ceasing, and flood overflowed out of control. Fierce beasts ate common people, and ferocious birds attacked the old and the weak. Hence, Nvwa smelted the five-colored stones to mend the sky, cut off the feet of the great turtle to support the four poles, killed the black dragon to help the earth, and gathered the ash of reed to stop the flood.。