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Nv [i.e. Nü] Wa mends the sky / adapted by Wang Yangguang ; translated by Liu Yonghou ; illustrated by Li Chunming and others = Nüwa bu tian / gai bian Wang Yangguang ; fan yi Liu Yonghou ; hui tu Li Chunming ... [et al.].

by Wang, Yangguang.

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Beijing : Dolphin Books, 2005.

Folklore -- China

Chinese language materials, Juvenile -- Bilingual.

9787801385314 (pbk.)

Zhongguo shen hua gu shi.

37 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

The goddess Nüwa comes down to Earth and creates the human race from the mud of the Yellow River and sets up human society. All goes well until one day two gods get into a fight and one of them knocks down a mountain that is holding up the sky, producing a hole through which flood waters pour, creating all manner of disasters. Nüwa melts down many five-colored stones from the Yellow River and uses the molten metal to patch the sky. Then she catches a huge turtle and uses its legs as pillars to hold up the sky. She kills a dragon and uses the body to fill a crack in the earth and uses ashes from the forest to stop the flood waters.

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