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Nuwa patching the sky
The myth of Nüwa patching the Sky (Hanzi=女娲补天; pinyin=''Nǚwā bǔtiān'') is a common theme in Chinese culture. The courage and wisdom of Nüwa inspired the ancient Chinese to control nature's elements and become a favorite subject of Chinese poets, painters, and sculptors, along with so many poetry and arts like novels, films, paintings, and sculptures; e.g. the sculpture that decorate Nanshan District, Shenzhen, and Ya'an.
==Nuwa the human creator==
Huainanzi told a story of a very ancient times, about four pillars that support the sky were crumbled with unexplained reason. Other sources tried to explain the cause, i.e. the battle between Gong Gong and Zhuanxu or Zhu Rong. Unable to accept his defeat, Gong Gong banged his head onto Mount Buzhou (不周山) which was one of the four pillars. Half of the sky was fallen and created a gaping hole while the earth was cracked; the earth's axis mundi was tilted into the southeast while the sky into the northwest. That is why the western region in China is higher than the east and most of its rivers flow to the southeast. The same thing is applied to the sun, moon, and stars which are moved into northwest. The wildfire burnt the forests and lead the wild animals to run amok and attacked the innocence peoples, while the water which was coming out from the earth's crack didn't seem to be slowing down.
Nüwa, pitied her humans, made an act to repaired the sky. She gathered five-colored stones (red, yellow, blue, black, and white) reputedly from the riverbed, melted it and used it to patched the sky; the sky (clouds) is colorful since then. She then killed a giant turtle (or tortoise), some version named the tortoise as Ao, cut the four legs of the giant creature as the new pillars to support the sky. But Nüwa didn't do it perfectly because the unequal length of the legs, made the sky tilt. After the job was done, she killed the black dragon which was causing the flood (some version named the dragon as Xiangliu), drove away the wild animals, extinguished the fire, and control the flood with a huge amount of ashes from the reeds burning. The world became peaceful as it was before.〔
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