12.盘古开天地

Lesson Twelve

Pangu Creates the World

1.According to legend, in the beginning of the world, the sky and the earth were not separated, and there was only darkness and chaos, which seems like a huge egg.

2.Our ancestor Pangu, a giant, had been born and growing up in it for 18,000 years.

3.One day, he suddenly woke up.Opening the eyes, he found that everything was blurred and invisible.

4.He rolled over with great effort and sat up.“Click”.A crack appeared in the “big egg”, and a glimmer of light came in.

5.When Pangu saw an axe around him, he grasped it and wielded it with an effort.With a bang, the chaos was split all of a sudden.

6.The light and clear air rose up to the sky, and the heavy and turbid to the earth.

7.After it, Pangu propped up the sky with his head and stepped on the ground with his feet, fearing that they might close.

8.The sky increased its height by 1 zhang daily, and the earth sank by 1 zhang.Pangu grew with it.

9.18,000 years later, the sky rose very high and the earth became very thick.

10.Pangu, a towering giant, was like a pillar, propping up between the sky and earth, and preventing them from closing again.

11.Thousands of years passed, the heaven and the earth finally separated, but he fell down exhaustedly.

12.Following his death, great changes have taken place in Pangu’s body.

13.His breath turned into the wind and drifting clouds in four seasons; his voice turned into the rumbling thunder; his left eye became the sun, shining on the earth, and his right eye became the moon, bringing light to the night.His skin turned into a vast land, his four limbs and body the four quadrants of the globe and five famous mountains of the earth.His blood became the running rivers and his hair the lush flowers and trees.Even his sweat turned into rain and dew that moistened everything.

14.Pangu created the rich and beautiful world with his body.