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女娲补天It is said that there were no men when the sky and the earth were separated. It was Nuwa who made men by moulding yellow clay. NThe work was so taxing that her strength was not equal to it. So she dipped a rope into the mud and then lifted it. The mud that dripped from the rope also became men. Those made by moulding yellow clay were rich and noble, while those made by lifting the rope were poor and low.In a ancient times, the four corners of the sky collapsed and the world with its nine regions split open. The sky could not cover all the things under it, nor could the earth carry all the things on it. A great fire raged and would not die out; a fierce flood raced about and could not be checked. Savage beasts devoured innocent people; vicious birds preyed on the weak and old.Then Nuwa melted rocks of five colours and used them to mend the cracks in the sky. She supported the four corners of the sky with the legs she had cut off from a giant turtle. She killed the black dragon to save the people of J1zhou(1), and blocked the flood with the ashes of reeds.Thus the sky was mended, its four corners lifted, the flood tamed, Jizhou pacified, and harmful birds and beasts killed, and the innocent people were able to live on the square earth under the dome of the sky. It was a time when birds, beasts, insects and snakes no longer used their claws or teeth or poisonous stings, for they did not want to catch or eat weaker things.Nuwa's deeds benefited the heavens above and the earth below. Her name was remembered by later generations and her light shone on every creation. Now she was traveling on a thunder-chariot drawn by a two-winged dragon and two green hornless dragons, with auspicious objects in her hands and a special mattress underneath, surrounded by golden clouds, a white dragon leading the way and a flying snake following behind. Floating freely over the clouds, she took ghosts and gods to the ninth heaven and had an audience with the Heavenly Emperor at Lin Men(2) where she rested in peace and dignity under the emperor. She never boasted of her achievements, nor did she try to win any renown; she wanted to conceal her virtues, in line with the ways of the universe.盘古开天In the beginning , the heavens and earth were still one and all was chaos. The universe was like a big black egg, carrying Pan Gu inside itself. After 18 thousand years Pan Gu woke from a long sleep. He felt suffocated, so he took up a broadax and wielded it with all his might to crack open the egg. The light, clear part of it floated up and formed the heavens, the cold, turbid matter stayed below to form earth. Pan Gu stood in the middle, his head touching the sky, his feet planted on the earth. The heavens and the earth began to grow at a rate of ten feetper day, and Pan Gu grew along with them. After another 18 thousand years, the sky was higher, the earth thicker, and Pan Gu stood between them like a pillar 9 million li in height so that they would never join again. When Pan Gu died, his breath becamethe wind and clouds, his voice the rolling thunder. One eye became the sun and on the moon. His body and limbs turned to five big mountains and his blood formed the roaring water. His veins became far-stretching roads and his muscles fertile land. The innumerable stars in the sky came from his hair and beard, and flowers and trees from his skin and the fine hairs on his body. His marrow turned to jade and pearls. His sweat flowed like the good rain and sweet dew that nurtured all things on earth. According to some versions of the Pan Gu legend, his tears flowed to make rivers and radiance of his eyes turned into thunder and lighting. When he was happy the sun shone, but when he was angry black clouds gathered in the sky. One version of the legend has it that the fleas and lice on his body became the ancestors of mankind.女娲造人Nu Wa is a goddess of personal dragon's tail. Pangu an epoch-making later, traveled everywhere in between heaven and earth.Nu Wa slide the earth, the envy of Pangu physical structure of those beautiful, she loves trees and flowers, but she was more intoxicated with those who are more lively, more vibrant of the insects, fish, birds and beasts. In some of them looked after the creation of Nu Wa that can not be considered complete Pangu, insects, fish, birds and animals can not make her intelligence is far from satisfied. She wanted to create a life more than any thing to be superior beings. In this way, the world will have to dominate and manage everything in life, there will be no more than just weeds Man Shan, beasts and flocks of birds into the gang, the world will not be lonely and deserted.So, she decided to use the riverbed mud on the appearance of their own to pinch clay figurine. Nu Wa ingenuity, soon on a lot of good pinch of clay. The clay is almost like her, but she gave them to match the legs with his hands, to replace the dragon's tail. Nu Wa towards those little figurines Chuikou Qi, those small clay figurines have been infusion of energy, "live" up into a group of able to walk upright, can be made will be language, clever clever little thing, Nu Wa calling them " people. "Nu Wa, in which some people who injected yang, so they become men; while in some other person, she injected a chi, so they became a woman. These men and women around the Nu Wa jumping, cheering, has brought life to the earth.后羿射日Long long ago,there were ten suns.Each day,one of them set out on his jouney across the sky,but one day all ten suns set out together.As a result,the world was being destroyed by heat until Yi was sent to save the world.Yi closed his eyes for some seconds because of the burning sunlight.Then he placed an arrow against the bow-string anddrew it to the full.Then he let go his arrow.A golden crow,one of the ten suns,was killed and fell down.Still the earth was burning .Nine suns remained. The watchers were still blind with the pain of the heat.Yi loaded,drew and let go.When the ninth fell from the sky,Yi was told that the world needed one sun to give its warmth and light.Thus,the sky became clear and blue again.Since then,the only sun rises in the morning on his journey acrossthe sky every day.创世纪Before there was heaven and earth,there was only darkness.God said, “Let there be light!”And lignt appeared and filled the sky.He commanded the rivers to lie in their banks and the oceans to roll back from the land.He made plants and trees to grow on the land and to bear fruit.About the land,God made the sun to give light by day and the moom and stars to twinkle by night.When everything was ready,God created living creatures to make the earth their home.First God made the fish that swim in the water and the birds that fly in the air.On the next day,God made all the animals,big and small,to walk on the earth.God was very pleased with the world he had made.He looked down upon it and said,“It is good!”God wanted one more creature to make the world complete.This creature world be very special to God.God took clay from the earth and molded it into the shape of a man.When God breathed into the man,he came to life.Then God named the man Adam,and took him to a beautiful place called the Garden of Eden.He put Adam to work naming all the animals,insects,birds,and fish.There were many fruit trees in the garden.God told Adam that he could pick any of the fruit except the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.“If you eat the fruit from that from that tree you will die,”God said.Although the garden was very lovely and Adam han much to do,he was still lonely.God knew this so he lay Adam down to sleep and took a rib from his side.From the rib God created a woman,Eve,to be with Adam.Together they walked in the garden,talking with God and doing his work.They were very happy living in the perfect world God had made.亚当和夏娃When God made the first man, he put him on a beautiful garden, the Garden of Edan. Here Adam lived dinpeace whit all the animals. God gave Adam eternal life. But Adam was lonely in the garden, so Dod made Eve. When Adam was asleep one night,God took a rib grom him and made Eve,the first woman.Adam was happy when hr work up the next morning and found Eve beside him. God saidto them,"here in the Garfen you have rverything. but you cannot have ong thing:you cannot eat the apples from the tree of knowledge."One day Satan came to the Garden. He changed into a snake and went to live in the tree of Knowledge.When Eve came near the tree one day,the snake called her. He gave her an apple and said,"Take this apple and eat it.Don'tlisten to the God.Eat it."After Eve took a bite,she took the apple to Adam.He was afraid,but Eve re-peatef again and anginL:It's good.Here,eat it.why not ?so he finally ate the apple.before they ate the apple.before they ate the apple,Adam and Evedidn't know that they were naked. But now they were ashamed and covered their bodies with leaves.God was angry whit them. He said,"leave the Garden.You cannot stay here."When Adam and Eve left thegarden,they had their first experience of pain and hard work in the cold hard world outside.诺亚方舟The Bible story tells that men and women became so wicked that God was sorry He had made the Earth. He looked at the way men and women were living, and determined to punish them by sending a great flood; but there was one good man, and for his sake God saved the Earth. This man was Noah. He called Noah, we are told, and bade him build a great Ark out of wood, with rooms in it for his wife and is sons, and his sons’ wives, with one great window and with a mighty door in the side, The Ark was to be covered with pitch inside and outside, and to be built so well that-it should have room for two of every living thing, with food for each one. Noah, having made the Ark, called two of every living thing upon the Earth-animals, birds, and insects; and, laying in a great quantity of food, he himself, and his wife and his children, with all these other living things, entered the Ark. When they were all in, the windows of the heavens were opened, and the water covered the highest mountains. And in the flood the wicked perished. But God remembered Noah. The rain ceased, the waters passed away, and the sun-light went into the Ark. Then Noah let a raven fly from the window of the Ark, and in did not come back to him. Noah then sent out a dove, which flew terrified above the waters and returned to the window of the Ark. After seven days more Noah sent out the dove again, and this time it returned bearing in its bills a leaf of olive. Noah then knew that the Earth was dry, and when he again sent the dove forth it did not return. Then Noah came out with his family, and on an altar of stones they offered thanks to God. So God was pleased with Noah, and set a bow of light in the sky after the rain.耶稣诞生His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph,but before they came together,she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace,he had in mind to divorce her quietly.But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,"Joseph son of David,do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,because what is conceived in her is from Holy Spirit.She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,because he will save his people from their sins."All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son,and they will call him Immanuel",which means,"God with us." When Joseph woke up,he did what the angel of Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son.And he gave him the name Jesus.。