A presentation about Chinese Creation Myths Various versions of Chinese creation myths, though not related to religion, have been passed down through generations for thousands of years, among which the most famous one is the story of Pangu, who created the world and Nüwa, who made man. The Chinese myth starts with an egg called “chaos” with nothing inside but only a child named Pangu. Pangu had slept in the egg for 18,000 years. When he finally woke up, he found it was too dark and hot to endure inside the egg, so he broke the egg with an axe. After the egg was cracked, the lighter half rose and became the sky, and the heavier part descended and became the earth. Being afraid of the sky and the earth would gather again, Pangu continued lifting the sky. As he grew up, the taller he was, the more the distance between the sky and the earth was expanded. After another 18,000 years, Pangu found the sky and the earth could never get together again, when he had exhausted all his strength after the feat and immediately died. After his death, his left eye became the sun and his right eye became the moon. His last breath became the clouds and the winds. His bodies, the mountains. His blood, the rivers and seas. His teeth and bones, valuable minerals. His skin, the flowers and trees. That was how the world and all of life was created. You may wonder where the human came from. Well, in a special version of the myth, Pangu never showered so he had a bad case of fleas and those fleas became people. Apparently it was not a widely accepted version. Another version of the myth said it was Nuwa, a half-human half-snake mother goddess that created mankind instead of Pangu. Nuwa appeared out of nowhere in the new world created by Pangu. Walking among trees and flowers, she suddenly felt very lonely. So she began creating men from yellow clay, one at a time. After she had created hundreds of figures in this way, she got tired, so instead of hand-crafting each figure, she dipped a rope in clay and flicked it, so blobs of clay landed everywhere. Each of these blobs became a common person. It was said that the people who were crafted by Nuwa herself later became emperors and nobles. After hundreds of thousands of human beings were created, Nuwa divided them into men and women and grant them love so mankind can reproduce by themselves forever.