Who is Pangu and Niiwa ？
2 min readWhat is the feature of ancient Chinese mythology？
The ancient mythology has strong Chinese characteristics and is imbued with a sense of human vitality.The heroes are gods or deities，but they are also considered as Chinese people’s ancestors such as Yu the Great and Huangdi. The heroes and gods all love people in the world.Pangu，Ntiwa，Yi and Emperor Yu，for example，sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others.In addition，Chinese mythology contains the basic spirit of Chinese people who strive continuously to make new progress.Pangu，for example，creates the universe，and Jingwei fills up the sea.Generally speaking，Chinese myths constitute the roots of Chinese culture.They have deeply influenced philosophy，literature，arts and language.
Who is Pangu？
In ancient Chinese mythology，Pangu was the first living being and the creator of the universe.According to Chinese cosmology，in the beginning there was nothing in the universe except formless chaos.Then this chaos began to unite into a cosmic egg，and Pangu emerged from the egg.He then set about the task of creating the world.He separated Yin from Yang.Yin became the earth，and Yang formed into thesky.This task took him eighteen thousand years.During this period，each day the sky grew ten feet higher，the earth ten feet wider，and Pangu ten feet taller.Afte eighteen thousand years had passed，the sky was ninety thousand 1i from the earth.
Pangu died afterwards.His body became the mountains of the world，his blood the oceans and rivers，his left eye the sun，his right eye the moon，and his hair forests and grass.
Who is Niiwa？
In Chinese mythology，Niwa is the goddess who created human beings.As everyone knows，she had the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a snake.It is said that there were no men or women when the sky and the earth were separated.Niwa fel lonely.One day while washing her face by a river，she began making tiny clay figures with yellow soil.As Niwa placed each clay figure on the ground，it became alive and started calling Niwa“Mama.”On hearing this，Niwa was extremely happy，and she named each of them.Nuwa continued making clay figures in this way until she was exhausted.Then she put a piece of rope in deep mud，raised the muddied rope high，and threw it on the ground.The mud on the rope splashed immediately and landed everywhere.The numerous splashed mud droplets turned into innumerable men and women.It is said that nobles are created from the yellow clay，and poor or lowly people from droppings of the rope.
