Chapter 8 mend the sky

one Nuwa (2) suddenly woke up. Yi (3) seemed to wake up from a dream, but she couldn't remember what dream she had; she was just very annoyed, feeling that there was something lacking and something was too much.The turbulent breeze warmly blows Yi's strength into the universe. Yi rubbed her eyes. In the pink sky, there are many stone-green floating clouds in zigzags, behind which stars flicker on and off.In the blood-red clouds in the sky, there is a radiant sun, like a flowing golden ball wrapped in ancient lava; on the other side, there is a moon as cold and white as cast iron.However, Yi didn't care who was going down and who was going up.

The ground is all tender green, even the pines and cypresses that don't change their leaves very much are extraordinarily tender. The peach-red and blue-white variegated flowers, which are still distinct in front of my eyes, turn into colorful mist in the distance. "Alas, I have never been so bored!" Yi thought, and suddenly stood up, raised her very full and energetic arms, and stretched towards the sky, the sky suddenly turned pale and turned into a miracle. The meat is red, and for the time being, I can no longer tell where Yi is. Yi walked to the beach in this flesh-red world, and the curves of her whole body were melted into the sea of ​​pale rose-like light, until the center of her body became pure white.The waves were amazed, their ups and downs were very orderly, but the waves splashed on Yi's body.This pure white shadow wavered in the sea water, as if the whole body was exploding in all directions.But Yi herself didn't see it, she just knelt down involuntarily, reached out to scoop up the watery ooze, and at the same time kneaded it a few times, and there was a small thing similar to her in both hands.

"Ah, ah!" Yi thought that he made it himself, but he also suspected that it was in the soil like a sweet potato, and couldn't help being very surprised.However, this surprise made Yi like it, and continued her career with unprecedented courage and joy, breathing and bragging, and sweating... "Nga! nga!" (4) The little things cried out. "Ah, ah!" Yi was startled again, and felt that there was something flying out of the pores all over her body, so the ground was covered with a cloud of milky white smoke. Only then did Yi regain her composure, and those little things also stopped talking.

"AkonAgon!" Something said to Yi. "Ah, cute baby." Yi looked at them, and stretched out his muddy fingers to touch his fat white face. "UvuAhaha!" they laughed.This is the first time Yi saw the smile between heaven and earth, so it was also the first time that she couldn't close her lips. While fondling them, Yi continued to do them, and the things being done circled around her, but they gradually walked away, talking too much, and Yi gradually couldn't understand, only felt that her ears were full of noisy shouts. , quite a bit dizzy. In the long-term joy, Yi was already tired.Almost finished breathing and sweating, and Kuang became dizzy, his eyes dimmed, his cheeks gradually became hot, he felt indifferent and impatient.However, Yi still didn't stop working as usual, just doing it unconsciously.

Finally, with sore waist and legs, Deyi stood up and leaned against a relatively smooth high mountain. Looking up, the sky was covered with white clouds like fish scales, and below was dark green.Yi herself didn't know what to do, but always felt that things were not going her way, so she stretched out her hand impatiently, pulled up a wisteria that grew from the mountain to the sky, and the purple flowers were just blooming from house to house. With a wave of Yi, the vine lay horizontally on the ground, and half purple and half white petals were scattered all over the place.Yi then waved her hand, and the wisteria turned over in the mud and water, splashing out mud mixed with water at the same time, and when it fell to the ground, it became like many small things that Yi had made before, but most of them were dumb. The purpose of the roe-headed mouse is somewhat annoying.However, Yi didn't care about these things anymore, just being funny and irritable, she just swung her hand with a mischievous hand, and the more she swung, the faster the vine rolled on the ground, like a red snake scalded by boiling water.The mud spots splashed from the vines like a rainstorm, and turned into little crying things while they were still in the air, crawling around and scattered all over the ground.

Yi nearly lost his mind, and swung even more, but not only his waist and legs hurt, but also his arms were exhausted, so Yi could not help but squat down, leaning his head against the high mountain, with his black hair resting on the top of the mountain, panting After a while, he sighed and closed his eyes.The wisteria fell from Yi's hands, and lay lazily on the ground as if in a state of exhaustion. two boom! ! ! Amidst the sound of the sky collapsing, Nu Wa woke up suddenly, and at the same time slipped straight to the southeast.Yi stretched out her foot and wanted to step on it, but she couldn't kick anything, (5) quickly stretched her arms and grabbed the mountain peak, so there was no further downward trend.

But Yi felt that water and sand and stones were pouring over her head and sides from her back. Turning her head slightly, she took a mouthful of water and two ears of water. Yi quickly lowered her head, and saw the ground shaking again .Fortunately, the shaking seemed to have calmed down. Yi moved back and sat up firmly, then moved out her hand to wipe off the water on her forehead and around her eyes, and took a closer look at what was going on. The situation is very unclear, there are waterfall-like flowing water all over the place; probably in the sea, there are even sharp waves standing up in a few places.Yi had to wait blankly.

But at last it was calm, the waves were not as high as the mountains before, and the rocky bones were exposed in places like land.Yizheng looked towards the sea, and saw several mountains rushing towards them, while whirling in the waves.Fearing that those mountains would touch her feet, Yi stretched out her hand to grab them. Looking at the valley, there were still many things she had never seen before. Yi withdrew her hand, pulled closer to the mountain to look carefully, and saw that the ground next to those things was vomited in a mess, which seemed to be gold and jade powder (6), mixed with some chewed pine leaves and fish meat.They also slowly raised their heads one after another. Nuwa opened her eyes wide and finally realized that this is the little thing she made earlier, but the weird ones have already wrapped themselves in something, and some of them are still there. The lower half of the face has snow-white fur, although it is glued by the sea water like a pointed poplar leaf.

"Ah, ah!" Yi exclaimed in surprise and fear, his skin was covered with millet, as if he had touched a burrworm. "Shangzhen (7) Help..." A man with white hair on the lower half of his face raised his head, vomited, and said intermittently, "Help...my minister...you are a student of immortals. Who would have thought that the disaster would come? , the world fell apart....Now fortunately...encounter Shangzhen,...please save the ant's life...and give the fairy...the fairy medicine..." He then moved his head up and down and made strange moves.Yi Du was at a loss, so he had to say again, "What?" Many of them also spoke, and they all vomited and yelled "really, really, really" on the one hand, and then they all behaved strangely.Yi was annoyed by their troubles, and regretted the pull, which caused an inexplicable disaster.Yi couldn't help but look around, and saw a group of giant aurochs (8) playing on the sea. Yi couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately put those mountains on their backs, and said, "Hump it up until it's stable." Let’s go where we want!” The Giant Ao seemed to nod their heads, and drove away in groups.But before pulling too hard, a white-haired man fell from the mountain. Now he couldn't catch up, and he didn't know how to swim, so he fell on the beach and slapped himself.This made Nuwa feel sorry for her, but she didn't care, because Yi really didn't have time to take care of these things.

Yi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling more relaxed, and then turned to look around her, the running water had receded a lot, and vast earth and rocks were exposed everywhere, and many things were embedded in the crevices of the rocks, some were straight, some were But still moving.Yi caught a glimpse of one staring blankly at Yi with blank eyes; it was covered with iron sheets all over its body, and the expression on its face seemed to be disappointed and frightened. "What's going on?" Yi asked casually. "Whoa, mourning from heaven." That one said pitifully, "Zhuanxu didn't know the way, resisted me, and I fought against the sky, fought in the suburbs, the sky didn't favor virtue, my master turned away..." (9 ) "What?" Yi had never heard such words before, and was very surprised.

"My teacher went against me, and my queen touched the mountain of Buzhou (10) with my head, broke the pillar of heaven, and defended the land, and my queen also fell. Woohoo, it's true..." "Enough is enough, I don't understand what you mean." Yi turned her face away, but saw a happy and proud face again, which also covered her whole body with iron sheets. "What's the matter?" Yi didn't know these little things could change their faces in such different ways until now, so she also wanted to ask a different and understandable answer. "People's hearts are not ancient, but Kanghui really has the heart of a hog, and looks at the position of heaven. I will go to the sky and fight in the suburbs. Tianshi Youde, my teacher is invincible in battle, and Kanghui will return to the mountain of Buzhou." (11) "What? ?” Yi Yao still didn’t understand. "People's hearts are not old,..." "That's enough, that's enough!" Yi was so angry that her cheeks flushed to the base of her ears, she quickly turned her head away, and searched elsewhere, only to find something that was not wrapped in iron, naked, with a The wound was still bleeding, but there was also a piece of rag around his waist.He was taking off the rag from the waist of another straight thing, and hurriedly tied it around his own waist, but his expression was quite calm. Yi guessed that he was different from those covered with iron sheets, so he should be able to get some clues, so he asked: "What's the matter?" "That's what's going on." He raised his head slightly and said. "Then what happened just now?..." "Did that happen just now?" "Is it a war?" Yi had no choice but to guess for herself. "Will you fight?" he asked, however. Nu Wa took a deep breath, and at the same time raised her face to look at the sky.A great crack in the sky, very deep and very wide.Yi stood up and flicked it with her nails. It was not crisp at all, but it was almost the same as the sound of a broken bowl.Yi frowned, looked around, and thought for a while, then wrung out the water in her hair, separated it and put it on her left and right shoulders, and pulled out reeds everywhere: Yi has made up her mind." Let’s fix it and talk about it” idea. (12) From then on, Yi piled up reeds day and night, no matter how high the firewood pile was, Yi became much thinner, because the situation was not the same as before,—the crooked and cracked sky was on her face, and the dirty and tattered ground was on her head. There was nothing pleasing to the eye. something. When the reeds piled up to the gap, Yicai went to look for the green stone.At first I wanted to use pure bluestone that was the same color as the sky, but there were not so many on the ground, and Dashan was reluctant to use it. Sometimes I went to lively places to find some scraps, and when I saw them, I sneered, scolded them, or snatched them back, and even bit them. hand.Yi had no choice but to add some white stones, and if it was not enough, he put together some red, yellow and gray-black ones, and finally filled up the gap with what he had, only needing a little fire, and once it melted, the job would be completed, but Yi was too tired to see it. Ear ringing, unable to hold on. "Alas, I have never been so bored." Sitting on the top of a mountain, Holding his head in both hands, he said out of breath. At this time, the fire (13) in the ancient forest on Kunlun Mountain had not been extinguished, and the sky to the west was all red.Yi glanced to the west, determined to take a big burning tree from there to light the reeds, when she was about to reach out her hand, she felt something prick her toe. Yishun looked down, as usual, it was a small thing he had made before, but it was even more strange, he hung all over his body with something like cloth, more than a dozen pieces of cloth were hung around his waist, and his head was also covered. I don’t know what, on the top is a small black rectangular board (14), and I am holding an object in my hand, and it is this object that stabs Iraq’s toe. The one with the rectangular plate stood between Nuwa's legs and looked up. Seeing Yi Yi's eyes, he hastily handed over the small piece.When Yi took it over to look at it, it was a very smooth piece of green bamboo with two rows of fine black spots on it, which were much smaller than the black spots on the oak leaves.Yi also admired the delicacy of this method. "What is this?" Yi couldn't help being curious, and couldn't help but ask again. The one with the top rectangular board pointed to the bamboo piece and recited like a stream, "Naked clothes are obscene, immoral, contemptuous and corrupt, and beasts. The state has permanent punishment, but it is forbidden!" Nuwa glared at the small square board, and laughed to herself that she was asking too much. Iben already knew that talking with such things would not make sense as usual, so he stopped talking, and casually put the bamboo piece on top of his head. On the square board above, he returned his hand and pulled out a burning tree from the forest of fire, intending to light it on the pile of reeds. Suddenly, she heard whimpering, but it was an unheard of thing. Yi glanced down again, but saw two tears smaller than mustard seeds in the small eyes under the square board.Because it was very different from the "nganga" cry that Yi was used to before, so she didn't know that it was also a kind of cry. Yi went to light the fire, and more than one place. The fire was not very strong, and the reeds were not completely dry, but they were still warm, After a long, long time, it finally stretched out countless tongues of flames, stretching and shrinking to lick upwards, and after a long time, it became a heavy flower of flames (15), and became a pillar of flames, overwhelming the red light on Kunlun Mountain.A strong wind suddenly rose, the pillar of fire whirled and roared, and the blue and mottled stones were all reddened, flowing like caramel in the cracks, like an inextinguishable lightning bolt. The wind and fire swept De Yi's hair into four directions and twirled, and sweat flowed like a waterfall. The great flames set off Yi's body, making the universe show the final flesh-red color. The pillar of fire gradually rose, leaving only a pile of reed ash.Yi waited until the sky was all green and blue, and then stretched out her hand to touch it, but felt that there was still some unevenness on the surface of her fingers. "If you regain your strength, let's do it again..." Yi thought to herself. Then Yi bent down to hold the reed ashes, and filled the handfuls of them into the big water on the ground. The reed ashes hadn't cooled completely yet, and the water boiled with steam, and the gray water splashed all over Yi's body.The strong wind wouldn't let up, and brought ash with it, making Iraq the color of dust. "Woo!..." Yi let out her last breath. In the blood-red clouds in the sky, there is a radiant sun, like a flowing golden ball wrapped in ancient lava; on the other side, there is a moon as cold and white as cast iron.But it is not known who is going down and who is coming up.At this time, Yi Yiyi used up all his body, and lay down in the middle, and stopped breathing. Above, below, and in all directions is the silence above death. three One day, when the weather was very cold, a noise was heard. It was that the Custodians had finally arrived, and they arrived late because they waited for the time when they could see no fire or smoke.They had a yellow ax on the left, a black ax on the right, and a huge and ancient banner behind them. They dodged and attacked the side of Nuwa's dead body, but they didn't see any movement.They made a stockade in the belly of the dead body, for that was the fattest place, and they were wise in picking these things out.However, they suddenly changed their tone, saying that they were the only descendants of Nuwa, and at the same time they changed the character Kedou on the banner to write "Nuwa's intestines". (16) The old Taoist priests who fell on the coast have also been passed down for countless generations.When he was about to die, he passed the important news of the fairy mountain being carried to the sea by Juao to his disciples, and his disciples passed it on to his disciples and grandchildren. Later, an alchemist wanted to curry favor, so he went to hear about Qin Shihuang, and Qin Shihuang instructed the alchemist to find it (17 ). The alchemist could not find the fairy mountain, and Qin Shihuang finally died; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty taught him to look for it again, but there was no trace (18). Probably the Juaos didn't understand Nuwa's words, and they just nodded by chance at that time.After humming around for a while, everyone dispersed and went to sleep, and the fairy mountain sank, so until now, no one has seen half of the fairy mountain, at most they have discovered some barbaric islands . Made in November 1922. ==================================================== ============== (1) This article was originally published on December 1, 1922 in Beijing's "Morning Post Four Weeks Commemorative Supplement", titled "Buzhou Mountain", and it was included; when it was printed for the thirteenth time in January 1930, the author This article was removed, and later changed to its current name, and included in this book. (2) Nuwa, the ancestor of human beings in ancient Chinese mythology.She made people out of loess, which is a myth about the origin of human beings in our country. Volume 78 of "Taiping Yulan" quotes Ying Shao's "Customs of the Customs" of the Han Dynasty, saying: "As the saying goes: the world was opened, and there were no people; Nuwa made people out of loess, and the drama was too busy to perform, so she drew ropes in the mud and lifted them up. Think of people. Therefore, the rich and the rich are also the people of the loess; the poor and the mediocre are also the poor people." (According to the full name of "Customs of the Customs", "Tongyi of the Customs", there is no such article in the current biography.) (3) The third-person pronoun of Yi women.The word "she" was not used at that time. (4) "Nganga!!" and the following "AkonAgon,!" "UvuAhaha,!" are all elephant tones spelled in Latin letters. "Nganga!!" transliterated like "uh! huh!" "AkonAgon,!" transliterated like "Akong, grandpa!" (5) This is a myth about Gonggong's wrath. "Huainanzi Tianwen Xun": "In the past, Gonggong and Zhuanxu fought for the emperor, and in anger they touched the mountains of Zhou, the pillars of heaven were broken, and the dimension of the earth was lost. The sky tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars moved; the earth was not full of the southeast, so the water Let the ashes return." According to Gonggong and Zhuanxu, they are both characters in ancient Chinese myths and legends.In the past, historians said that Gonggong was a descendant of Yandi (Shennong), a prince in ancient times; Zhuanxu was the grandson of Huangdi, one of the "Five Emperors" in ancient history, named Gaoyang. (6) The powder of gold and jade refers to things like cinnabar and gold jade taken by Taoist priests. Taoist priests believe that after taking it, they can live forever. (7) Shangzhen Taoism calls people who have cultivated Taoism real people.Shang is really a title. (8) Juao read "Liezi Tang Wen": "The east of the Bohai Sea, I don't know how many millions of miles, ... there are five mountains in it: one is Daiyu, the other is Yuanqiao, the third is Fanghu, and the fourth is Yingzhou. 5. The fifth is Penglai....The people who live there are all the seeds of immortals....The roots of the five mountains are not connected to anything, and they are always like tides, going back and forth up and down, without being able to (temporarily) stand still. Therefore, tell the emperor, fearing that the emperor will go to the west pole and lose the residence of the saints, so he ordered Yu to make the giant Ao Fifteen raise his head and wear it, repeating it three times, and at 60,000 years old, the five mountains will stand upright According to Yu□, see "Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Bei Jing": "There is a god in the North Sea, with a human face and a bird body, two green snakes, and two red snakes, named Yu□." (9) These are the words of the Gonggong side in the battle between Gonggong and Zhuanxu.Finally, the monarch, here refers to Gonggong.These few sentences and the following two classical Chinese sentences are all imitated from ancient books such as "Shangshu". (10) Buzhou Mountain According to Guo Pu's note in Jin Dynasty in "Shan Hai Jing·Xishan Jing": "The shape of this mountain has a place where Bu Zhou coins are missing, because of the name cloud." In the "Northwest of Kunlun". (11) These are the words of Zhuanxu's side.Kang Hui, the name of Gong Gong.Finally, here refers to Zhuanxu. (12) Regarding the myth of Nuwa refining stones to repair the sky, there is the following record in "Huainanzi·Lan Mingxun": "In ancient times, the four poles were abolished, and Kyushu was split; The fire never extinguishes, and the water never ceases to burn.... So Nüwa smelted five-colored stones to mend the sky, cut off the turtles to set up the four poles, killed the black dragon to help Jizhou, and accumulated reed ashes to stop the water." It also replaced Sima Zhen's "Records of the Three Emperors": "In the last years of Dangyi (Nvwa), the princes had Gonggong, and they were punished by wisdom to be strong, bully but not king, and they used water to ride wood, so they fought against Zhu Rong. When she was overwhelmed and angry, the mountain collapsed when her head touched it, the pillars of the sky broke, and the earth was missing. Nv Wa smelted five-colored stones to mend the sky, broke off a turtle enough to set up the four poles, and gathered reed ash to stop the flooding and help Jizhou." (13) The fire in the ancient forest on Kunlun Mountain According to "Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Xi Jing": "There is a big mountain named Kunlun Hill... outside of it is a mountain of flames, where things are thrown (burning)." (14) Rectangular plate The ornamental plate on the top of the crowns of ancient emperors and princes was named "Yan" in ancient times, also known as "Mianban".The small thing with a rectangular top is the "little husband in ancient clothes" mentioned in the "Preface" of this book.The few classical Chinese sentences he recited below are also imitations of ancient books such as "Shangshu". (15) Double Taiwan flower with double petals. (16) Regarding the myth of "Nuwa's Intestine", the "Shan Hai Jing · Da Huang Xi Jing" has the following records: "Beyond the Northwest Sea, in the corner of the Great Wilderness, there are mountains that do not fit together, so it is called Bu Zhou Negative Son. ... There is a country named Shushi, the son of Zhuanxu. There are ten gods named Nuwa's intestines, who are transformed into gods and live in the wild of Liguang." Guo Pu's note: "Nuwa, the ancient goddess and emperor, has a human face and a snake body , seventy changes in one day, and its intestines are transformed into this god." Kedou characters, ancient characters, with strokes thick at the beginning and thin at the end, shaped like tadpoles. (17) The story of Qin Shihuang's search for fairy mountains is recorded in "Historical Records: The Chronicle of Qin Shihuang" as follows: "Xu Shi (Fu) from Qi wrote a letter saying that there are three sacred mountains in the sea, named Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou, where immortals live. Please fast, and ask the virgins and men and women. So thousands of virgins and men and women were sent to Xu City to go to the sea to beg the immortals. . . . (18) The story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty looking for the fairy mountain is recorded in the "Historical Records Fengchan Book" as follows: The alchemist "(Li) Shaojun said (Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty): '...I tasted the sea and saw An Qisheng, An Qisheng Eat jujubes raw during the period, which are as big as melons. Those who live in peace can pass through the middle of Penglai. All the medicines (preparations) are gold.... But the alchemist waits for the gods and men, and goes to the sea to seek Penglai, but there is no experience."