Prehistoric Period (1700th millennium-21st century BC)

1 Pan Gu Shi (shi meant mister)

A Legendary Hero Cutting open Earth and Sky

Ancient Chinese philosophers believed that HunTun of universe took place every 120 hundred thousand years. HunTun, known as Chaos, meant the glob dyes and the world renews its life. It is said that, when the HunTun comes, the universe seems like a big egg filled with stuff like egg whites or thick paste. In the egg, there slept a small boy. Ten thousand years later, when the boy woke up, he felt uncomfortable living in the suffocative circumstance, so he tried to cut open the paste by using a magic axe. With his every wielding of the axe, a bit of paste was divided into two parts: the solid material sank down and the soft rose up. In pace with the opening of area, the boy grew taller and taller, and became a superman. It consumed him long-lasting time and painstaking efforts, leading to the sky and the earth final separation. The glob gradually took its shape. The superman was Pan Gu Shi. Pan Gu thus became the first household name in China as the Hero of “Cut Open the Earth and Sky”.

After Pan Gu’s death, his eyes turned into the sun and moon, his skin became soil, his bones became mountains and blood vessels became lakes and rivers scattered all over the world.