15.女娲补天

Lesson Fifteen

Nvwa Mends the Heaven

1.Since human beings were made by Nvwa, they began to live in peace and happiness on the earth with laughter everywhere.

2.One year, Gong Gong, the God of Water, and Zhu Rong, the God of Fire, suddenly got into a fight for some unknown reason.

3.They fought fiercely, from heaven to earth.

4.As a result, the God of Water was defeated, and he was ashamed and annoyed.He felt shameful to live in the world, so he crashed into the Buzhou Mountain in the west.

5.You know, Buzhou Mountain was originally a big pillar supporting the heaven.With such a bump, this pillar was broken.

6.A big hole suddenly appeared in the sky, and the earth cracked with deep black ditches.Floods spewed out from the ground, and all kinds of wild animals ran out of the mountains to harm human beings.People panicked and fled everywhere, and the whole world fell into chaos and terror.

7.Nvwa was very sad when she saw this, and she was determined to mend the heavens and the earth so that mankind could live a happy life again.

8.This is a huge and difficult job.Nvwa first picked up stones of red, green, yellow, white and black from all over the world, which were melted with holy fire.

9.With the gradual extinction of holy fire, the five-colored stones were melted into thick stone paste.

10.It was used to mend the cracks in the sky.

11.Since then, there have been colorful clouds in the sky.

12.To replace the broken pillars, she cut off the four legs of a huge turtle and erected them in the four corners of the earth to support the fallen sky, so that the sky is no longer in danger of collapse.

13.Then, she bravely killed the black dragon that did all kinds of evil in the Central Plains.Other beasts were intimidated and fled back to the mountains, and did not dare to run around and harm human beings.

14.Finally, Nvwa burned the reeds into ashes and sprinkled them into the water.The reed ashes accumulated thicker and thicker, and the cracks were also blocked

15.Peace has finally been restored to the heavens and the earth, and mankind has been reborn.

16.For generations, people miss Nvwa and preach her great achievements.