中国神话故事英文简介ppt课件.ppt

The Ancient Mythology of China Chinese civilization is one of the most splendid cultures in the world, which dates back to thousands of years ago. Similar to many old civilizations, its early culture is integrated with legends and myths. As described in mythology, Chinese civilization begins with Pangu, the creator of the universe, and Nvwa, the creator of mankind.The creator of the universe According to legend, in the beginning of the world , the heaven and earth were integrated into one body that is just like an egg. And in the “egg” Pangu slept for thousands of years. One day he suddenly woke up. Opening his eyes, he found everything was blurred and invisible. Angrily, he grasped an axe and wielded it with an effort. The heaven and the earth started to split. He feared that the heaven and the earth got integrated into one body again. So he decided to hold the heaven with his hands and feet. Thousands of years passed ,the heaven and the earth finally separated ,but Pangu fell down exhaustedly . Following his death ,his breath turned into the wind and cloud, his voice the thunder; his eyes the sun and the moon. His four limbs and body became the four quadrants of the globe, and his blood the rivers and his muscle and bones the layers of the earth . His flesh became the soil , his hairs and furs the stars, flowers and trees. Pangu created the rich and beautiful world with his body. It is said that Nwa existed in the beginning of the world. She was a goddess had human face with a snake-like body. She felt lonely as there were no animals so she began the creation of animals and humans. On the first day she created chickens. On the second day she created dogs. On the third day she created sheep. On the fourth day she created pigs. On the fifth day she created cows. On the sixth day she created horses. On the seventh day she began creating men from yellow clay. One day, she found the villain she originally created has been hair snow-white and died.Looked at this kind of situation , she felt secretly worry. So Nuwa reference everything pick generation method, divided human into men and women, so that human can also cooperate, reproduce. Because human is god-like creature, not equal with animals, so she again established marriage system which is different from animals promiscuity-after. It is said there were two deities, Gong Gong, the God of Water and Zhu Rong, the God of Fire, one day they fell in battle. They fought all the way from heaven to earth, causing turmoil everywhere. The God of Fire won, and in anger the God of Water struck his head against Buzhou Mountain .The mountain collapsed and down came the big pillar that held heaven from earth. The sky slanted to the northwest and the earth to the southeast, and so, since then, the sun, the moon and all the stars turn towards the west and all the rivers run southeast. After Gonggong struck against the Buzhou Mountain. Half of the sky fell in, leaving a big black hole. The earth cracked open, forests went up in flames, floodwaters sprouted from beneath the earth and dragons, snakes and fierce animals leaped out at the people. Many people were drowned and more were burned or devoured. It was an unprecedented disaster. Nuwa was grieved that mankind should undergo such suffering. She decided to mend the sky and end this catastrophe. She melted together various kinds of colored stones and with the molten mixture patched up the sky. Then she killed a giant turtle and used its four legs as four pillars to support the fallen part of the sky. She caught and killed a dragon and this scared the other beasts away. Then she gathered and burned a huge quantity of reeds and with the ashes stopped the flood from spreading, so that the people could live happily again. In ancient myths Pangu was a giant and the offspring of Nether God Houtu, who lived in the northern wilderness. His ears hung two yellow snakes, holding two yellow snakes, to catch up with the sun. When he arrived at where the sun sets he felt thirty so he drunk up the Yellow River and Wei-Shui, still not enough, he went to the north of the Great Lakes. Have not arrived at the Great Lakes, he died of thirst on the halfway.精卫填海 Once upon a time, there was a cute little fairy, named baby girl, she was the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, and he loved her very much. Baby girl wanted to visit the sun rises place the east sea. But her father was too busy to take her there. One day she sailed a boat to the depths of the east sea. Farther and farther away from land, sea waves were more and more big and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound jinwei, jingwei. That was why people called it Jingwei. The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the seaThank You