The origin of nuwa

Based on archaeological remains, relics and painted pottery patterns, Nu Wa provided information about prehistoric people's struggle against floods and life impressions of reproductive worship. The historical and cultural roots lie in the inheritance of the concept of female worship in the primitive matriarchal society.

There are also titles such as Wa Huang, Ling Wa, Di Wa, Feng Huang, Nu Yin, Queen, Nu Wa, Nu Wa, Goddess, Yin Di, Yin Di and Emperor Nv. It is the mother of the earth in ancient legends.

One said that her name was Feng Richi (or offering sacrifices to the Phoenix), and she was an ancient goddess who helped everything in China's historical myths and legends. According to legend, she is the mother of the Chinese nation. She created life kindly and bravely took care of creatures from natural disasters. She is the creator and mother god, and has been widely worshipped for a long time. She has magical power and can create at least seventy things every day.

Legend has it that Nu Wa took loess as a model and created human beings and human society. There is also a legend in "Goddess of mending the sky", that is, a catastrophic disaster happened in nature, the sky collapsed, and raptors and beasts came out to harm the people. Nu Wa smelted five-color stones to fill the sky, killed the evil beast Raptor, re-established the Quadrupole Tianzhu, and leveled the world.

In addition, it is said that Nu Wa made something called Shengquan. Therefore, people worship Nu Wa as the goddess of music. In the records, she established a marriage system for human beings, which enabled young men and women to marry each other and reproduce, so she was also called the goddess of marriage.

In the myth of Nu Wa, a series of achievements, from the initial transformation of Nu Wa into a god, to the transformation of all things by Nu Wa, and then to the creation of man by Nu Wa, are all carried out in the state of opposition between heaven and earth. Nu Wa used to be in a state of lawlessness, no land and no people. From the birth of Nu Wa, she first became a god, and the appearance of God led to the birth of heaven. Then Nu Wa incarnated everything, and then everything appeared, and the earth also appeared. At this time, the world is at peace.

According to the records of Nu Wa in Qin and Han Dynasties, such as Shan Hai Jing, Chu Ci, Shuo Wen Jie Zi, we can see that Nu Wa has transformed into all things and protoss, which is consistent with the view that body organs have transformed into all things (with gods) after the fall of ancient gods in the creation myths of all nationalities in the world. Since the later Pangu myth and other minority creation myths also contained the content of the metaplasia of all things and gods, this affirmation also increased its reliability. Comparing Nu Wa with the ancient creation myths recorded in other countries, in fact, this description indicates the beginning of creation. Before all things, the material God used to create could only be his own body.

Scholars have come to some conclusions by studying the ancient books such as Shan Hai Jing, Huai Nan Zi, Chu Ci, Customs, Zhu, Historical Records and Taiping Magnolia. It is believed that the most outstanding achievements of Nu Wa, one of the mythological figures, are "making people unearthed" and "refining stones to make up the sky", but one thing is often overlooked, that is, Nu Wa, reflected in folk myths and legends, is the creator of all things in the world.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Nuwa