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ancient times, in the north of the country, there is a magnificent towering chengdu contained tianshan mountains there lived a giant called kuafu family clan. kuafu tribe leader called braggadocio, he was extremely tall, litaiwuqiong, strong-willed, the extraordinary spirit. at that time, the world's desolation behind, pois m. onous snakes wild beasts run amok, and people's lives miserable. kuafu the purpose of this tribe of people can live births every day and led the crowd fighting with the scourge. braggadocio often caught in ferocious yellow snake hanging in his ears as a decoration, be proud of.
On Fajiu Hill grew a lot of mulberry trees. Among them lived a bird which looked like a crow, but had a colourful head, a white bill and two red claws. Its call sounded like its name: Jingwei. The bird was said to be Emperor Yandi's youngest daughter, who, while playing on the East Sea, had been drowned and never returned. She had turned into Jingwei, and the bird would often carry bits of twigs and stones all the way from the west mountains to the East Sea to fill it up.
in the han dynasty in qiancheng lived a man by the name of dong yong. his mother died when he was a child. while living with his father, he worked hard in the fields. each time they went out, he would put his old father on a small cart and follow it on foot. when his father died, he was willing to sell himself into slavery for a little money for the funeral. knowing that he was a virtuous man, his master gave him ten thousand coins and allowed him to go home.
dong was in mourning for three years. when it was over, he decided to return to his master to work as a slave. on his way he met a woman who said to him, "i am willing to marry you." so they went together to his master. "i have given you money," the master said to him. "thanks to your generous help," dong said, "i was able to bury my father. although i am a man of low birth, i know i ought to work for you to repay your kindness." then the master asked, "what is your wife good at?" "she can weave," dong answered. "if you insist on doing something for me," said the master. "please ask your wife to weave a hundred bolts of fine silk for me." dong's wife set to work in the master's house. ten days later the hundred bolts were ready.
when she came out, she said to dong, "i am a weaver in heaven. the emperor of heaven ordered me to help you pay your debt because he was moved by your filial piety." after saying these words she flew into the sky and vanished.
Pandora after the stealing of fire，zeus became increasingly unkind to day he ordered his son hephaestus tobuild an image of a beautiful maiden out of clay.he then asked the gods and goddesses to award her with different kinds of gifts.among others ，athena clothed her in an attractive coat and hermes gave her the power of telling lies.a charming young lady，she was the first woman that ever lived.zeus called her pandora.because she had received from each of the gods and goddesses a gift. the gift was harmful to men. zeus decided to send her down to men as a present.so hermes them essenger brought her to epimetheus ，brother of prometheus.
The greatness of her beauty touched the hearts of all who looked upon her ，and epimetheus happily received her into his house.he had quite forgotten pometheus'warning ：never to accept anything from zeus.The couple lived a happy life for some time.Then trouble came on to the human world. when he was busy with teaching men the art of living，prometheus had left a bigcask in the care of epimetheus.he had warned his brother not to open the lid.pandora was a curious woman.she had been feeling very disappointed that her husband did not allow her to take a look at the contents of the day，when epimetheus was out ，she lifted the lid and out itcame unrest and war ，plague and sickness ，theft and violence， grief sorrow ，and all the other evils.The human world was hence to experience these evils. Only hope stayed within the mouth of the jar and never flew out.so men always have hope within their hearts.
the taihang and wangwu mountains, which had a periphery of seven hundred li and were a hundred thousand feet high, originally lay south of jizhou and north of heyang.
the foolish old man of the north mountain, nearly ninety years of age, lived behind these mountains. he was unhappy about the fact that the mountains blocked his way to the south and he had to walk round them whenever he went our or came back, so he called the whole family together to talk about the matter. " what would you say," he said to them,"if i suggest that all of us work hard to level the two mountains, so as to open a way to places south of yu prefecture and the han river?" many voices said they agreed to the idea.
but his wife had her doubts. "with your strength," she said, "you could hardly remove a small hill like kuifu. what could you do with the taihang and wangwu mountains? besides, where could you deposit the earth and rocks.？"
"carry them to the shores of the bohai sea and north of yintu," said several people.
the old man, helped by his son and grandson who could carry things, began to break rocks and dig earth, which they carried in baskets and dustbins to the shores of the bohai sea. the seven-year-old son of a widow named jingcheng, one of the old man's neighbours, came running up to offer his help. one trip to the sea took them a long time: they left in winter and came back in summer.
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.
Prometheus prometheus was a titan 。in the war between zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new olympiangods.out of the clay he made the first man ，to whom athena gave soul and holy breath.prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire.and fire raised man above all animals 。
Later，there held a joint meeting of gods and men. the meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should begiven to gods and what to men.prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts ：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish zeus loved fat. zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the prometheus' favor towards men.so in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from mankind.however，prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down tomen.flying into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion ，zeus let the other gods chain prometheus to a rock on mountain caucasus ，where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew again.his period of pain was to be thirty-thousand years.prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never lost courage before zeus.at last heracles made prometheus and zeus restore to friend ship，when heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free.
In ancient times,the four corners of the sky collapsed and the world with its nine regions spilt open.The sky couldn't cover all the things under it,nor could the earth carry all the things on it.A grea fier raged and wouldn't die out,a fierce flood raced about and couldn't be checked.Savage beasts devoured innocent people,vicious birds preyed on the weak and old.
Then Nu Wa melted rocks of five colours and used then to mend the ceasks in he sky.She supported the four corners of the sky with the legs she had cut off from a giant turtle.She killede the black dargon to save the people of Jizhou,and bloked the flood with the ashes of reeds.
Thus the sky was mended,its four corners lifted,the flood tamed,Jizhou pacified,and harmful birds and beasts killed,and the innocent people were able to live on the square earth under the dome of the sky.It was the time when birds,beasts,insects and snakes no longer used their claws or teeth or poisonous stings,for they didn't want to catch or eat weaker things.
Nu Wa's deeds benefited the heavents above and the earth below.Her name was remembered by later generations and her light shone on every creation.