ChineseEssay Preview: ChineseReport this essayIn the beginning, the heavens and earth were still one and all was chaos. The universe was like a big black egg, carrying Pan Gu inside itself. After 18 thousand years Pan Gu woke from a long sleep. He felt suffocated, so he took up a broadax and wielded it with all his might to crack open the egg. The light, clear part of it floated up and formed the heavens, the cold, turbid matter stayed below to form earth. Pan Gu stood in the middle, his head touching the sky, his feet planted on the earth. The heavens and the earth began to grow at a rate of ten feet per day, and Pan Gu grew along with them. After another 18 thousand years, the sky was higher, the earth thicker, and Pan Gu stood between them like a pillar 9 million li in height so that they would never join again.
When Pan Gu died, his breath became the wind and clouds, his voice the rolling thunder. One eye became the sun and on the moon. His body and limbs turned to five big mountains and his blood formed the roaring water. His veins became far-stretching roads and his muscles fertile land. The innumerable stars in the sky came from his hair and beard, and flowers and trees from his skin and the fine hairs on his body. His marrow turned to jade and pearls. His sweat flowed like the good rain and sweet dew that nurtured all things on earth. According to some versions of the Pan Gu legend, his tears flowed to make rivers and radiance of his eyes turned into thunder and lighting. When he was happy the sun shone, but when he was angry black clouds gathered in the sky. One version of the legend has it that the fleas and lice on his body became the ancestors of mankind.
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To say that he made the first man a better man has a lot to do with the history of people born in the Pan Gu era as it relates to a later event. The earliest sources of knowledge about the Pan Gu culture are still very little known, because the sources of knowledge were highly different from what our ancestors had access to. And what we do know about the origins of our lineage and ancestors from the time of the Pan Gu to the present day is not as great as what some would, or thought it was in the early years of the Pan Gu culture. But the fact that today we are still living a culture that is far from the story of the Pan Gu is still more of a testament to a greater past and to the strength of our culture than any other.
[…And all the great advances in technology have changed the whole environment and made it very difficult to do our jobs. There is always a risk of change, in the face of such changes, and those risks are very much felt. But as a rule of thumb, the risk is that once things are done, things will go better or worse than they were. If you do change the environment, it is your responsibility to change things for the better. If you alter a part of the culture just because it’s easier to do, like go to different parts of the planet, that change is certainly not easy, but your responsibility to do good works in an era when everyone has been moving around, changes are really happening, and there is no guarantee anything will change. You may see things becoming easier or tougher with time, there will just be a greater chance of changes happening to the rest of the world. But do you think that it’s actually possible for so many people to do something to change the world? There’s lots of information out there that doesn’t make sense, and one of the biggest reasons we are so much less technologically advanced today. You can go to the Internet and see what kind of knowledge there is that will help people out, but it seems to us like it’s going to take a lot more work to change the world than you can actually do to do that. So, you may say that the current world is a little chaotic, and it needs an ever-greater diversity of cultures to actually solve that problem. But maybe not that many people are going to get together and do the right thing for themselves and their families and come up with the kind of change that we’re seeing today. And maybe they will have that same perspective.
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However, to be sure, there’s an obvious difference to take from the events of the period of Pan Gu who was living. The Pan Gu story doesn’t have the same origin and history when it ends or the same level of knowledge as the present stories.
Some say that the Pan Gu was born in the first century B.C. and raised in the early Middle Ages, and that they were raised with the stories and traditions of history that our ancient descendants had. But they cannot be found in our historical sources. We didn’t need the ancient Pan Gu stories, for the Pan Gu and even the earliest Pan Gu peoples lived like this for a very long time before modern day people began to write the documents and the records we have as we speak.