Chinese Mythology Creation Story Explained in Animation
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This video on Chinese mythology explains the Chinese creation myth starting from the first god Pangu. In this video, many creation myths have been fused, when often Pangu would be its own answer to the “Creation” question, and Nüwa would be another. With the creation of the humans, the brother and sister myth often does not co-exist with Nüwa, and in some versions, they simply do one test and everything works out. Another version, not included here, has a giant snake give birth to all animals and then finally humans. This said, creation myths are not a dominating aspect of Chinese Mythology and there are not as many records of them as there are of other areas (like the creation of the immortals and various arts or ideas) - it seems like the origin of the human race and Earth was not as important of a question to the ancient Chinese.
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This takes the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, to an entirely different level lol
Lol
the chicken came first
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Boy, you can say that again!
hahah
I find it hilarious that we apparently ate and pooped so much we literally made Heaven go "AW HELL NAW" and noped noped noped all the way home
in the Sumerian mythology, the gods were fed up after giving the humans the ability to reproduce, as the humans were too noisy, and so they decided to create the flood and leave the Earth. I find it fascinating that the parallels between ancient societies, all have the same sort of allegories playout within them.
It’s becuase of global warming . To much carbon in the atmosphere from poop or too much ppl and pollution something we are facing now
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Earth is a giant dead person body. seems familiar....*Nordic flashback*
Damm, I took more than one year searching Chinese myth history but you make it easier and faster
Glad you like it!
but after 3:00, what he talked was never heard by Chinese people. I don't know where and why he got the wrong stories.
Everything in the first five minute was ok, after that, pretty much nonsense.
humans have one hell of an imagination
Taqifsha Nanen he’s not. To put it simply we will believe what we want to believe.
a bit insulting really
The craziest part is imaginations all around the world are identically crazy.
Some take things too literal
@W. A.j. None of what you described is in Chinese culture. Those are caused by poverty and lack of education, you will find cultured Chinese people do none of those things. Before you jump into conclusion and blame everything on culture or tradition maybe take some time to try to understand the real reasons that caused all those horrible things.
Chinese society went through probably the hardest fall in human history in the 20th century, European colonization, two Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, the disastrous end of Qing Dynasty, Sino-Japanese War, a civil war, Great Leap Forward and Culture Revolution, more than 150 years of unrest and warfare contributed to a poor, uneducated and superstitious Chinese society which caused people to do desperate and disgusting things. Though still a lot efforts need to be made for China to recover, things are a lot better now that more and more people are educated and traditional cultures, values and wisdom are once again appreciated.
Hey man thank you so much for making this, had to do a school project on it, editing and audio was amazing, great transitions, music, and overall timing and storytelling of the video, really appreciate it, thank you
Interesting that Chinese creation myth has a universal flood too, as do others.
If you’re really interested, I would like to introduce you to Erich Von Daniken. His theory about the great flood sounds so fascinating! :)
Well yeah floods represent the highest order of natural annihilation, at least in a metaphorical sense
Yeah, floods are really scary so people tend to make myths about how scary they are.
You will find That the “great flood “runs through all comparative religions. Even back to the epic of Gilgamesh. There is great beauty in that fact. The more you research every religion the more you find there’s a common thread running between them
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Chinese mythology is so interesting.
stop the cap
@@issasujawal2794 ????
@@glamorgirl911 hes just stupid
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while after about 3:00, the stories have not been heard by Chinese people. I dont know where the fake stories come from
I like to learn about their tales because the deities backstories are fascinating to look up on.
Same
Poor beetle 😢... Remember things is hard.!!
This is my absolute favorite creation story.
I find it amazing that so many creation myths have the earth formed from a giant or giant beast.
Norse,Chinese, Japanese Korean,Iceland,Australian aboriginal, Mayan,Aztec, several native American tribes etc.
Almost all myths have a flood story.
Pangu sounds like a Chinese interpretation of the big bang, before humans knew better.
While the egg reminds me of the big bang, Pangu reminds me of Ymir from Norse mythology.
Yes, taking the story literally would be non sense. But metaphorically. Demn. Nearly all cultures have written metaphorically and not literally.
Kingu also a cognate in sumerian
There was a flood in every mythology lol
I know that it just a summarize of the whole story of the Chinese myth and it is worth to see, but I also want to know the whole story of Creation like 3000 mazingers, the Three pure ones, nuwa and fuxi, the demon and pangu's descendants' tribes and so on before the creation of human
Ya alot of things are missing
I love that this video says excrete instead of urinate or defecate. In Mandarin, these actions translate to small excrement (shou bien) and large excrement (da bien). This is gives me the impression that a more direct translation of the legend was used here.
It’s amazing how similar the worlds creation myths are to each other’s
Because humans are similar, just like sex and other things we do.
Poor dung beetle :'< That's a tough punishment. Can you change the rule?
This is amazing thank you so much for posting.
The spherical flesh reminds me of the ball in the stomach of Gandhari in the Mahabharata. The flood reminds me of Noah’s ark. The failed pregnancy reminds me of Abraham and Sarah trying to conceive a child.
What about the dung beetle part? 😂
Most elaborated (Step)sister story I have seen so far 😂
Chinese mythology helps you learn Japanese mythology as Japanese culture largely came from China. That said both are gateways into each other in terms of becoming familiar with them. Fu Xi and Nu Wa are Chinese versions of Anunnaki. Japan's Susano'o as well. That said I honestly suspect the Sumerian stories came to Japan independent from China...just my suspicion, a crazy thought.
The Romans also worshiped their Princeps. Adding them to the pantheon of Greco-Roman gods.
The first was Iulius Caesar the last was probably Diocletianus(not sure about the last).
@Taqifsha Nanen
Yes he was, so was Aurelian lots of the better emperors of the late imperial age were from Illyria.
Trajan & Hadrian were Spaniards they all had their own cults of worship as well. Didn't matter if they were from Rome. As long as they were a good emperor and obviously Romanized.
Wow, That was one Heck of a Chinese Creation Myth Story.
The beginning reminds me so much of puntan and fu’na from chamorro creation story
And the fact that so many creation stories have a huge flood that swept humanity near the edge of exinction is just 🤯
And another thing is at the end, when one of the gods separated the heaven from the earth because of the stench reminded me of God of the bible, separating adam and eve from eden (where heaven and earth overlap) becuse of sin or in this case, something nasty and unclean and the snake or (beetle in this case) being the third one to get punished as well
3:59 sweet home Asia
Same thing in Christianity they just never had a problem with it in the Bible 😂
5:44 this is the funniset part in my opinon
enjoy watching your video, however this is not the creation myth that I was tough growing up in Chinese. There seems to be a mix of a few different stories with odd timelines. would you be willing to have an discussion?
So, I am not Chinese, nor have I learned in China. But from the limited research I have done so far for my novel, I have noticed several different myths in different religions of Chinese descent. Some have Pangu as the creator god, some have the Jade Emperor and some have other deities like Guanyin.
I wouldn't rush to call any single myth incorrect as there are many versions which vary in content, like most oral myth it's a game of broken telephone.
@@jogo-md8jq Compared to traditional Chinese mythology, it's not quite right
So wverytime it rains we are getting sweated on!!!😂😂😂😂😂
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The[Your] tone was very good as a narrator.
What a twist. The dung beetle stole the limelight of the story.
Born and raised in China and I have never heard about the 2 siblings rooting after the flood???
I read the story when I was little.
@KaraKeero They may not exist, but most long living stories have a moral or a lesson and that is their value
@KaraKeero I... Could not agree more. It hurts me that there are still people who believe in a god despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Anyone who still believes in a god is welcome to reply respectfully with their evidence and I will reply back. Respectfully of course.
@@jogo-md8jq Saying that there is no evidence for a God is a reach, but acceptable. But saying that there is evidence that is contrary to the existence of God is ridiculous.
@@skraskraa._.5371 Of a specific god, yes. God as an idea cannot be disproven, it is unfalsifiable (which actually works against it). However when you assert that God has certain properties, we can predict what would happen if he did, and then see if that is in accordance with reality. Which it isn't most of the time.
The myths of China began from "pangu" split heaven and earth, pangu died, a race called the "wizard" inherited his strength, the leader of the witch is twelve progenitor wu (but they don't have something called the yuan god, similar to the soul), his soul force was hung-chun bodhi old zu and sanqing, nuwa, get the power of the detachment. At the same time on the earth travel all sorts of demon beast, god beast, they formed an empire, the emperor is "East emperor too one", it mastered the power of the sun, demon clan and sorcery clan began to fight for the position of the leading role of heaven and earth war, in the battle both lose and lose, and the sky played a hole. Nuwa gave up her life to fill the hole in the sky. At the same time, the human race created by Nuwa began to multiply and became the protagonist of heaven and earth.
Do Persian mythology.
I am chinese and this mythology version is strange to me.
Were you English educated? Most Chinese who went to English school would not know these stories.
@@Zerpentsa6598 I from Chinese school and the story is different from this video.
what if you are strange to the mythology?
@@painyt4878 yes, i feel more strange to my cultural heritage after this video....
It's interesting! I have a Chinese clock, only It's not Chinese I don't know what it is
The three lords are Uranus (Prometheus), Saturn (El/Satan/Enlil), and Jupiter (Zeus, YHWH, Baal, Enki), and correspond to amps, resistance, and voltage
where did you get the info that Zeus is Enki and Satan is Enlil
God: Go eat sh*t!!
The beetle: Nom nom nom
Fun fact the story of the brother and sister who re populated the earth was changed by scholars who believed women could not be of such high status. ( it didn’t really stick tho thank goodness
Because of description differences within any cultures Most just cannot say the simple statement that God did everything from nothing.
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Hi, glad you enjoy them!
Thanks can you do a video on Indian mythology. 😀 It's okay if you don't. P.s. Thank you for replying 😎😜😍😀🤗
The beetle one was funny hahahaaha
This is extremely interesting
Yo this history is highly incomplete and doesn't include the Chinese power system the real myth should be something like this
In the nothingness where their was no conceptually laws such as space, time , matter , fate , energy , yin , yang , etc ; but within the endless nothingness or since their no concept so it not endless it gave birth to the simplistic source energy that can produce any conceptually energy, matter, space , time , and all other thing in and out of existence and even the various laws such as the 3000 laws of existence in Chinese myth that include physical laws in modern time that govern the operation rules of existences.
This initially source gave birth to the avenue that is a combination of all laws that been created or will be created and it gave birth to the initial prototype of chaos or as i like to call it the avenue experimentally site within this chaos the avenue gave birth to endless of various 'higher dimensional" creatures that were implanted with an experimentally rule that the likely emotionless computer like avenue (in term of personality) gave them so they could further perfect their own laws and among them 3000 of them have created the greatest results among them and the laws they perfect eventually became the 3000 fundamental laws currently while the other laws that was possible produce although might be included in future era's are not universally laws like 3000 and may only affect certain region depending on the situation.
At the end of avenue initial law experiment it gave pangu the chaos creature containing the law of POWER a mission stating that as long as it open up (or destroy chaos i guess) and create a world he can sanctify him upgrading his existence to an avenue saint that is an eternal existence as long as the avenue exist (or to put it in another way he becomes the administrator and become more privileged in comparison to other creatures and can modify the laws to a certain extent making it impossible for non avenue saints to kill him with the exception of the avenue itself that the source of avenue saint power.); so back on topic pangu eventually chooses this road to prove his law of power by completing the avenue mission to become a saint but during pangu creation the other 3000 chaos demons tries to stop pangu since if pangu creates the heaven and earth it would be the equivalent of blocking their path to an avenue saint at most it possible to be a lower level heavenly saint that restrict power within a single world that sanctified in.
So eventually pangu and most of the other 3000 chaos demons fight but possible under the avenue plan (since it likely doesn't need these experimentally creatures anymore) pangu had a few well basically plugin weapons that allowed him to win but drained most of his stamina so when the heaven and earth that he just created started to collapse inwards he was basically forced to gamble or sacrifice himself to complete heaven and earth so with his body and the remainder of the dead chaos demons he got together sufficient amount of material and laws from the 3000 demons to create a independent world with it own operating principles and consciousness named heavenly way.
So after pangu death and heaven and earth birth some creatures from chaos survived and entered the newly born heaven and earth and the avenue started it practical test stage as i like to call it. so it provided an energy called merit it basically a diluted version of source energy that the avenue gives to the various creatures and heavenly way the perfects the operating principles of heaven and earth and under the condition an certain creatures obtains a certain amount of merits they can become a heavenly saint although the power doesn't cover the endlessness of the avenue but within heaven and earth it has a comparable amount of power to an avenue saint.
the first saint as hongjun that taught the various creatures how to use an energy called aura to develop the brain gain wisdom , improve the body , and create an energy system closely linked to the soul allowing the billions of creatures to open up wisdom and gain power for their own goal allowing heaven and earth to prosperous for trillions of years.
later the first saint opened up a school basically and selected 3000 creatures to gain his knowledge of which 6 people were selected to become his inner students.
those 6 students and 2 or 3 other people eventually became a saint existence by completing various feet and further improving the operating principles of heaven and earth.
1.created humanity.
2.created 6 reincarnation
3.created god system
4.created specialized practice system
5.buddism
6.taoism
7 and onwards i am not queit sure you can look it up
and after the 9 or 10 saints were eventually selected except for 1 or 2 that were killed by other or entered into a robbery they basically stayed eternal alongside heaven and earth
as for the other creatures they followed the trends of heaven and earth although they are not as powerful as before so as not to treaten heavenly way but they got a more complex and wider system to live in and each fragment of inspiration they generated are collected by the heavenly way the further improve heaven and earth operating principles.
as for the avenue it basically treats heaven and earth as an cage containing countless chickens laying eggs of inspiration for it to further improve and who knows it might have not only created our world but endless other world with different sets of law containing endless other creatures with various different thinking habits and logic providing it endless inspirations to self improve it own existence eventually moving toward an state of perfection in myth called mixed yuan where it will be literally perfect in all aspect from that point onward past , present, and future since it will go beyond all concepct of time , space , yin , yang , chaos , nothingness, etc till it either fully replaces the nothingness , collapses , or stay stuck in a bottleneck.
What
DJREF yea of course i read all of that
thank you
Chinese male God reminds me of Purusha, and Nuwa reminds me of Prakriti.
Yoooo the brother and sister got busy lol.
it took me 1 minute to subscribe to you when i watch one of your Vid
Glad to hear that!
Do you know he came to lay in the egg? After the first separation, when Uranus used Nyx to move back and forth and tipped the Endless Ocean/Gaia over and all the primordials, who were in their dormant states, emerged to move by likes and likenesses to become elements on the Table. Pangu/Hydrogen was formed by the friction of Helium/Uranus on Gaia/Salt Water and thus he was formed over time by this LOVE.
A lovely video
I'm curious on what school of thought was this story based on. Was this Confucianism? Or Taoism? Or other else?
Other version says that the creation of earth was due to the Three Pure Ones. The First Pure One gives birth to the Second Pure One who's responsible for creation of the earth. On the same manner, the Second Pure One gives birth to the Third Pure One who is responsible for the creation of mankind.
So, which is which?
1. Gods in Taoism, for example Jade Emperor and Nezha is considered as "neo gods" since it appears similar time as Buddist and Christianity. Nezha for example as a god is later on mixed in some other stuff from Buddist and Hindu made it more like Asura but in a good manner.
2. Gods like Pangu and Nuwa in this video is more close to those gods in Ancient Greek. Chinese call them "Ancient gods" and "original religion gods"
3.Confucianism is only considered as a religion in the west. Its not considered as a religion in China, instead its just considered as a philosophy.
This is referred to as" Ancient myth" that predate those other religions.
In the egg lived P I N G U
They say his Noots shook the universe and formed the first matter.
Once check out Santan Dharma's history (creation of the universe)
So because of beetle I eat three times a day and get fatty. Dame beetle 😅😅😅
Wow now everything makes so much sense!
The Goddest took up the yellow Earth to make immoral people. The immoral people were than destroyed by a great flood. Similarities to the book of Genesis. Just like the Mayan creation story. All these different cultures have different interpretations of the same occurring events.
Thats why the eggman sings Xue Piao Piao song.
Does Fuxi also play a part?
He is the first of the 3 soverigns. Comes right after pangu
Wait, where did Nuwa come from?
she came from galaxy
Nuwa is actually a half human half serpent or reptilian. She created humans from the earth clay.
Nuwa = NOAH.
The Bible is the truth
thank you so much ...
Strange, I thought the brother and sister story was a Hmong story? Also the dung beetle is the same story as Hmong except it was a dog instead
Similar to Finnish and Sumerian interesting
i love the imperial russian backtrack
so what came 1st the chicken or the egg?
Egg came first. You can shine Ultra-Violet light and manipulate the Egg into anything.
Pangu is a giant created by Chinese mythology. After his death, the body evolved into all life on earth. This movie has a similar description:th-cam.com/video/ZHpJr7_5Mjg/w-d-xo.html
Who is Shangdi and how does he for in this mythology story?
The concept of God is copied from China, and the God of China is called lawless God.
To be honest, I never heard anything about the beetle….it’s so weird…..
3:20 suddenly the story went Alabama
"hey sis, you got a purdy mouth" lol
Absolutely Sharko!
Maybe at one point around 1000+ years ago there must have some flood as it is mentioned in many religions
Which came first the Pangu or the egg? 😂
Eating my lunch while watching was not a good idea😅
Similar to the Anunnaki myth of Tiamat.
There’s two I know of 2 Chinese creation stories, this one and the one with the humans being born from eggs
The earth growing 10ft thicker needs to be given more attention… Dr Pangu or 90210?? 😂
elder scrolls creation story has less plot holes then this, where did Nuwa come from if pangu was the first was Nuwa just a close second then? n where did this jade emperor spawn from, the void?
Is it just me or does history and mythology have the highest ai content?
Sounds like the Norse mythological origin story
Hay que tener mucha fe para creer en esto.
so you're saying the jade ring I have is made out of god jizz? huh... I never knew semen costed that much.
Nice Videooo
Thanks for the comment, glad you liked it!
Dude, you used Guan Yu 's image to show Pan Gu. XD
All creation "myths" including the Bible and Quran come from Sumerian texts. They're distorted versions of real events. In reality Anunnaki created humanity tens of thousands of years ago and gave us civilizational knowledge. Well, they retaught us after we lost it in the flood during the Younger Dyras Impact. Chinese creation myths are no different, although it's very crazy and mostly just human imagination and creation.
Here come the " Still more believable than Christian Creation story" comments.......
Its figurative, just like genesis
I'm not saying it isn't I was just prediciting the anti- religious trolls' comments.
@@Bizzmillah Why are people trolls for being anti-religious?Why are their comments anymore ridiculous then your's?Third what do you have against people that are anti-religious?You statement is not one of prediction you are just afraid what may be said by taking a stand.So like you I will make a prediction as well,since I disagree there is a high probability you will label me as a troll.
@@philosophicalreason you obviously are. I have nothing against atheists. In fact I feel bad for them. However, most people who comment on religion are either trolls or just haters. But all are predictable.
@@Bizzmillah Thank you for proving what I stated.
This version is funny as fuck.
Is Wang Mu Niang Niang another name for the one who created humans?
No, just a powerful female God
Wait, how did the gods come into existence?
Magical Science
??? Where did Jade Emperor and the other Gods come from? From beyond the world?
From order was born chaos. Let's call it another way "path"
中国神话故事多数是佛教和道家结合体，本土神话只有女娲，盘古之类的上古神
Is i the same egg thats the mst liked picture on instagram
Who laid pangu ?? 😂
@Decade 😂😂😂😂 Perfect answer
@Decade 😂😂😂😂 Perfect answer
my version of chinese mythology is start with the universal being contain in a shell and within it was an energy growing larger by year and the energy taking a human form call pangu. nv wa created human but there are no great floor nor sibling marriage...it only happen in greek mythology.
As a Chinese never heard the beetle part
how the hell did the jade emperor emerge and becomes ruler of heaven when in the beginning, it was pengu and the other goddess who created humans and life?
He was born with the mission to rule. Who knows?
玉皇大帝是来自于佛教天界主宰，在古代与印度佛教相结合而产生新兴神话，中国的原始神话处于秦朝之前
Universe was too small and the sky was just above the head...Stories is same with Meitei...
thats inaproprate. I'm not too happhy about that one NOW. - yours truly, Carrie and Aidan
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It is possible to eat once every three days I was awake for few weeks just drinking water and ate a rose from day today I haven't to went to the restroom at all well just to clean the sweet I swere
Omar Robledo what the hell are you talking about?
Every mythology across the world praises lord Shiva ❤️❤️
Its prajapati
@@dharmrakshak6735 no
There are some things that are missing
Ohh so we should have only eat 1 times a day huh?
That's basically the story of genesis... All the way up to the tower of babel...
Noah's flood is everywhere i presume
Are there any more good channels that cover Chinese Mythology?
Yes.
th-cam.com/video/DA-AkJzpKmg/w-d-xo.html
So the egg just appered? Or were there a gigantic intergalactic space hen who laid eggs all over?
那只是比喻sb
It slowly came from a void