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Empress Leizu discovered silkworms while having a midday tea, and a cocoon fell in her tea. One day when empress Leizu was taking a stroll in the royal garden with the Yellow Emperor, she found silkworms eating the mulberry leaves and spinning cocoons. She collected some cocoons, then sat down to have some tea. While she was sipping a cup, she dropped a cocoon into the steaming water. The heat unwrapped the silk, a fine thread started to separate itself from the silkworm cocoon silk until it stretched across her entire garden. Leizu found that she could unwind this soft and lovely thread around her finger. She then persuaded her husband to give her a grove of mulberry trees, where she could domesticate the worms that made these cocoons. She then invented the silk reel, which joins fine filaments into a thread strong enough for weaving. She also invented the first silk loom which weaves silk thread into fine cloth. Leizu then shared her discoveries with others, and the knowledge b...

Pangu separated the sky and the earth, then he died and his body turned into mountains, rivers, plants, animals, and everything else in the world, among which was Hua Xu. While Hua Xu was wandering through Lei Ze Marshes, she trod on the toes of a giant footprint and became pregnant. Later she gave birth to a twin brother and sister, Fu Xi and Nü Wa. Fu Xi and Nü Wa have faces of human and bodies of snakes. Nü Wa molded figures from the yellow earth and gave them life by breathing into their nostrils. In the beginning there was as yet no moral or social order among her offspring. Men knew their mothers only, not their fathers. When hungry, they searched for food; when satisfied, they threw away the remnants. They devoured their food hid and hair, drank the blood, and clad themselves in skins and rushes. Then came Fu Xi and taught his subjects to cook, to fish with nets, to hunt with weapons made of bone, wood, or bamboo, and to domesticate animals. He united man and wife, institu...

One day, the Goddess Nüwa came down upon the Earth, and found it to be enchanting, but empty. She sat by a river and felt very lonely. She gazed at her reflection in the water, and suddenly she knew what was missing: She wanted the world to be filled with thinking, laughing creatures like herself. The river stretched out before her, its waves slapping the shore. The cloudy green waters left a rim of thick yellow earth along its banks.  Nüwa felt its slippery texture with her fingertips and scooped out a ball of clay. The cool, sticky earth deposited by the river was perfect for her task, and she rolled the damp clay into a doll, giving it a head, shoulders, chest, and arms like her own. Finally, she attached two legs to the new creature so it could both walk on land and paddle about in the sea. From the many shades of yellow earth,  Nüwa made all kinds of dolls: tall and short, thin and fat, curly-haired and straight-haired, dolls with eyes as round and large as cherries, ...

Once, the world was a mass of swirling darkness. There was no heaven. There was no earth. All the forces of the universe were trapped inside a small egg, tumbling and spinning in utter chaos. Inside the egg was a tiny creature named Pangu. He slept soundly, unbothered by the disorder around him. As he slept, Pangu grew, and the egg also grew around him.  For eighteen thousand years Pangu slumbered peacefully, until he had developed into a well-formed, muscular giant whose body spanned ninety thousand li. In perfect harmony with Pangu’s body, the eggshell also stretched, straining to hold both the expanding giant and the turbulent gases of the world inside its boundaries. One day when the universe was especially unstable, Pangu woke up. All around, he saw nothing but darkness and confusion. At first, he was intrigued by the irregular rhythms of the world. He watched, fascinated, as whirling particles burst and scattered around him. Quickly, he learned to dodge exploding gases by n...

Fu Xi was the first of the Three Sovereigns of ancient China, who reigned B.C. 2953 — 2838. Fu Xi was born on the lower-middle reaches of the Yellow River in a place called Chengji. The land was swept by a great flood and only Fu Xi and his sister Nüwa survived. They retired to Kunlun Mountain where they prayed for a sign from the Emperor of Heaven. The divine being approved their union. Then Fu Xi and Nüwa found a way by using clay to create human figures, and made the clay figures to come alive. Fu Xi taught his opffsprings to cook, to fish with nets, and to hunt with weapons made of iron. He instituted marriage and offered the first open air sacrifices to heaven. Fu Xi developed the Eight Diagrams from the marks on the back of a tortoise.

In the beginning, the universe was all blackness and emptiness. Then suddenly a bubble appears, which becomes a ball of smoke, Then it begins to coalesce and grows and grows for millennia, eventually becomes a red, egg-shaped object, inside this object lies Pan Gu. After 18,000 years, Pan Gu awakes. Appalled by the infinite blackness, he throws open his arms and legs to break this suffocating emptiness, separating heaven and earth. The clear and light positive energies rise gradually, becoming the sky. The turbid and heavy negative energies descend gradually, becoming the earth. But the breach between heaven and earth is not large enough; Pan Gu is still confined. He will not let the opening close up again, returning to void. So he plants his feet firmly on the ground, puts his hands on the sky and forces them further apart. From then on, the sky will become one zhang  higher, the earth one zhang  denser, and Pan Gu one zhang taller every day. After another 18,000 ye...

When  Pan Gu  separated the Heaven and the Earth, the sky likes a canopy covering  and protecting the Earth. As time went by, the columns which supporting the sky began to rot and the land began to crack. Heaven did not completely cover the earth; Earth did not hold up Heaven all the way around its circumference. Lava and putrid water oozed up from underground; Fires blazed out of control and could not be extinguished; The sky would drop rain, hail, and meteors day and night; Water flooded in great expanses and would not recede. Ferocious animals ate blameless people; predatory birds snatched the elderly and the weak. Thereupon, the God sent down His daughter Nüwa to repair the Earth and Sky. Nüwa smelted together five-colored stones to patch up the azure sky, and the surging waters were drained; the Earth was again tranquil; crafty vermin died off; blameless people preserved their lives. ************ One year, the God of Fire Zhu Rong and Gong Gong fought ...