Goddess Nvwa Patches the Sky·女娲补天

Since Goddness Nvwa craeted men and women,the world became increasingly lively and beautiful.But one day,Gonggong(the water god) and Zhurong(the fire god) had a fight.They fought from the heaven to the earth and finally Zhurong won.The defeated Gonggong was so angry that he headed toward the Buzhou Moutain,a pillar supporting the sky,and knocked it down.Half of the sky then collapsed and a giant hole appeared in the sky;the earth broke into cracks,fire broke out in forests,flood emerged from underground and drowned tens of thousands of people.

Goddness Nvwa's heart ached at seeing this and determined to stop the sufferings. She chose a pile of rocks of five colors from the river and melted them into magma to patch the holes in the sky. Then she caught a giant tortoise and cut its four legs to support the collapsed half sky as pillars.

With the effort of the goddness,the sky was patched and the flood was stopped.People lived happily again.But the sky no longer as before and inclined to the west.That's why the sun, the moon and all the stars naturally go down to the west. In addition, since the land inclines to the southeast, all the rivers flow eastward to the sea. While the rocks of five colours turned into colourful clouds beautifying the sky.