Chinese Myths by Kitty

Yan Di had many, many children, but he had one favorite, Jing Wei. She was very beautiful and loved to play out on the open sea. One day, as she was frolicking in her favorite sailboat, a giant wave hit her, and she drowned. Once her father found out, he had no choice but to bury her and weep *sob*. Who knew, that after Jing Wei  died, she became a beautiful bird with colorful feathers, a white beak, and red feet. From that day on, Jing Wei always brought a stick, or stone with her to try (in vain) to flatten the sea. Day after day, the sea tried to convince her to stop this tedious work and give up.  The sea claimed that it would never happen, everything would just sink to the bottom and cause no harm to the sea. Besides, Jing Wei could never bring something large or heavy enough to pose a threat to the almighty sea. But Jing Wei didn't listen, she still persisted. She did this every single moment of her time. Yet she may never prevail. But she continued for her lost life and

Once upon a time, there were 10 suns. They scorched the land until it burned, dried up all the water, and made us little chumps pretty miserable. Then, a hero named Hou Yi scrambled up a mountain, used his superpowers and shot down 9 of them. Very soon after, Hou Yi got married to this lovely person named Chang E. One day, Hou Yi went out to Kun Lun Shan to do Hou Yi things, and he saw Wang Mu Niang Niang. She gave Hou Yi two "super pills" (if you eat one super pill you get immortality, if you eat 2 super pills, you go ascend to heaven). Since he couldn't leave his wife behind, he told her to go hide the  "super pills". Chang E then decided to hide the the pills in one of the nooks and crannies in the house. But who knew that one of Hou Yi's so-called acquaintances saw the "super pills". 3 days later,while Hou Yi was gone, his acquaintance came to take the pills! Chang E had no method of defending herself, so she quickly swallowed all the pills

Once upon a time, there were ten suns. They each took turns going out and bringing the people warmth. These ten suns were all brothers. When one of the suns went out, The others would relax, play, and do random things suns do. Then,one day, they came up with an idea that will get them killed. Going out together. Now that may sound weird to you, but they would parch the land if the came out together. In fact, they even had restrictions for that. But nooo, they just had to make that decision, and the next morning they all went out to play baseball, just kidding, they went out and did things that suns do. This lasted for quite a while. Pretty soon our puny little lives got pretty sad and our numbers were dwindling. A "hero" Hou Yiwent to go and help us, then squinted through the blinding white light (when did they invent sunglasses?) aimed pretty well, and shot one of the suns. Boom! One Sun down. *8 booms later* Hou Yi's wife Chang E came to plead with him to not shoot th

Long, long ago, the plants of this extravagant world were unclassified. No one knew what were weeds, medicine and food. That is really sad. The people of the world ate only meat at the time, since they had no veggies (wish I could do that). When that caught an animal, they had dinner, if not, then no food. Sometimes, people got so hungry that they ate veggies,but, some of them were poisoned. Others were ill and had no medicine to cure them. In order to stop our suffering a nice guy named Shen Nong decided he would be our lab rat. Yay! In the daytime, he would taste herbs on the mountain and at night he sorts them out by the fire. Wait... Doesn't he need to sleep too? Once he put a piece of herb into his mouth,and before he even started chewing, he got really dizzy and fell to the ground. A passerby caught him and picked him up. But Shen Nong knew he was was poisoned. He took his last bit of energy and pointed towards to super healing herb. The passerby immediately put it in

Once upon a time, there was a giant named Kua Fu who popped out of absolutely nowhere and thought he was sooooo awesome (he was also real nice). One day, to make sure his people were no longer cold and to bring them warmth (kinda like Prometheus), he decided to chase the sun (smart, right?). As he ran and ran with his super big strides (he is a giant after all) he got more tired and tired (After all, he was really close to the sun at that time). Very soon Kua Fu was suuuuupeeer thirsty. so he drank up a river. He ran a bit more, then he drank up a lake, then the sea (I'm surprised he didn't die of dehydration from that) he was still thirsty and drank the Chang Jiang and Huang He. Finally, when he got to his village and ran halfway across the world, he lay down to rest and died of exhaustion and heartburn. His wooden staff that he always carried around (when I say always I mean A.L.W.A.Y.S.) became a bijillion peach trees (FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD) to quench our thirst so we don

After Nv Wa created us, the water god and fire god got into a huge hissy fight. They fought from the sky to the ground, but the fire god won. The water god was such a sore loser that he hit his head on the mountain that kept the earth and sky apart. The mountain crumbled into itty bitty pieces and a chunk of the sky fell out. There was fire raging everywhere and flood water rushing out of the broken sky. Around this time, we were pretty miserable (as we should be) so Nv Wa decided that she should fix things up for her darling little creatures. She took super bright and colorful stones (I'm surprised she can find stones that aren't brown) and patched up the sky. Yay! Then she realized she needed something to keep the sky up, otherwise the same thing would happen. Wow. so she took a giant tortoise that somehow existed and plopped it down to hold up the sky. It worked! Somehow.                                                 The End

After Pan Gu created the world, and made all the trees and rivers with his body, there were all sorts of birds and other creatures. At this time, there was the goddess Nv Wa who somehow popped out of nowhere (again, mythology), a woman with a human torso and a snake tail. She always thought something was missing until it hit her right in the face one day, and guess what??? It was us *angelic music* !!! Of course she wanted these new creatures to look like herself, but there was one major difference, we have legs, not snake tails, that and, we're not goddesses. Once she got up to here with her amazing idea, she took some dirt and water, mixed them and Voila! made mud to sculpt with. In my opinion, it's pretty sad that we're made out of mud, we should have been made of something a bit more glorious. Nv Wa sculpted and sculpted until her hands were numb. then she realized there were too little of us awesome creatures, so she took a vine that she found, and whipped it in the

Once upon a time, before the skies and seas were formed, it was all chaos. There was no ending point or edge, no up or down or left or right, no cardinal directions, just a giant egg. Within this egg, there was Pan Gu the ancestor of all humans. After 18,000 years, Pan Gu woke up. He found out all was pitch black, so he got really mad(Anger Issues!). He picked up the ax he somehow found in there (mythology explains all) and broke the chaos egg. All the lighter things floated up and became the sky, while everything that was heavy sank down and became the ground. From then on, the sky and ground were separate. Pan Gu now used his head to keep the sky up and his feet to keep the ground down. He then grew a meter an day for another 18,000 years (kids grow fast, just not that fast!). At that time, the sky couldn't get any higher and the ground couldn't get any lower. By that time he was a giant, almost like a pillar that kept the earth and sky apart. The sky followed his emotio

Hi! I 'm Myth Kitty and on this blog I will be talking to you guys about Chinese mythology!!! I was born in California and raised in New York. I am also a cat enthusiast. In my free time I read Chinese mythology and interpret it for you guys! In this blog I will be talking about creation myths and occasionally a bit of history. I hope you guys enjoy!