Chinese Myth: Nüwa, The Creator of Humans

Many years after Pangu created the world, Nüwa (Chinese name: 女娲, Pinyin: nǚ wā), the great God, woke up from deep sleep. She took a walk along crystal clear river, pleased by green trees and colorful flowers.

Time passed, Nüwa began to feel that there was something else missing in this paradise, it was way too quiet! She sat by river and started thinking, "Yes! It's human being! This lovely world will never complete without humans!", Nüwa decided to create humans.

Nüwa carefully pinched dozens of human figures from mixture of water and loess. After that she blew a breath at the human figures and turned them into living person! The once eerily quiet world became noisy and lively.

Nüwa continued to make people however pinching human figure one by one was inefficient. She soaked a long rope in the mud and pulled it up, countless human shape mud dripped down the rope and turned into humans.

First few batches of humans were delicately pinched by hand, they were smart and talanted but those who were later mass produced with rope were rough and mediocre.

As human beings would grow old and eventually die, Nüwa gave them the ability to reproduce so that humankin could continue making this world a more wonderful place from generation to generation.