Legend has it that Pangu started the world, so how did Pangu come from? Did Pangu open the world?

Legend of Pangu in the Three Kingdoms Period

There are many records about Pangu myth, which are described in many ancient books, but the earliest one should be Xú Zhēng in the Three Kingdoms period. In his May 3rd Calendar, he wrote the legendary "Huang San", but this book has been lost. Now we know that there is a legend of Pangu opening the sky, because some paragraphs in the book exist in other ancient books, so some of them can be passed down to this day.

However, although it is the earliest written work, it does not represent the Pangu myth. The image of Pangu comes from this book. The myth of "Pangu Tiankai" came into being much earlier than this period, probably in ancient times. But at first, our ancestors didn't record it in words, but it was passed down from mouth to mouth. Until someone recorded it in words, it gradually formed the legend we saw.

Pangu is people's imagination.

However, Pangu was not born in people's imagination at first, but a great creator. In fact, this sentence has already explained that Pangu came from people's imagination. Ancient ancestors could not explain how the world came from, but they were curious about the world, but their ability to understand things was limited. In this case, it is easy to produce all kinds of fairy tales, and use this strange imagination to explain what you can't recognize, thus giving birth to many myths.

However, if we want to explore from written records, Pangu does not seem to be a myth born in ancient times. San Li Wu Ji is the earliest ancient book with Pangu written records, but before that, the writing had been born for a long time, various academic schools appeared and disappeared, and various dynasties changed. But why didn't Pangu myth appear in any book? So when and where Pangu originated, many people have their own opinions, which can be said to be different. However, it is very difficult to explore the source of these fairy tales. The records in the May 35 Calendar may only be heard from other places, so the myth was born earlier, but to what extent, it is unknown. Some legends even think that Pangu is actually Fuxi, and the combination of Pangu and his sister Nuwa is also a very popular legend in some areas, but it is generally considered as the myth of Fuxi Nuwa and Pangu, and the development of the combination of the two legends does not occupy the mainstream.

Pangu is fictional, but it is an inseparable part of our culture.

Pangu created the world, mountains and lakes, the sun, the moon and the stars, Nu Wa created mankind, Fuxi created gossip, and the Yellow Emperor ruled by hanging clothes ... We all know that these are myths and legends, all of which are fictional, so the characters in them are naturally fictional, but they have already surpassed the fictional meaning and become an inseparable part of our culture.