盤古開天
Pangu Opens the Sky
Level 5 · Idiom Stories · 成语故事 · 67 vocabulary words
Source: 《三五历纪》 · Sanwu Liji, Records of the Three and Five
很久很久以前,天地不分,像一个大鸡蛋,盘古就睡在里面。
Before time, sky and earth lay merged like a great egg, and Pangu slept inside.
盘古睡了一万八千年,醒来一看,四周漆黑一团。他抓起一把大斧,劈了下去。
He slept eighteen thousand years; waking in blackness he seized an axe and swung.
轻的往上升,成了天;重的往下沉,成了地。盘古站在中间,把天撑高。
The light rose and became sky; the heavy sank and became earth — Pangu stood between, propping the sky up.
又过了一万八千年,盘古倒下了。他的眼睛变成日月,血变成江河,身体变成山川大地。我们脚下的世界,就是盘古变的。
After eighteen thousand more years he fell. His eyes became sun and moon, his blood rivers, his body the mountains and land. Our world is Pangu transformed.