11 Facts About Pangu

Pangu is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology who separated heaven and earth and became geographic features such as mountains and rivers.

Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive, hairy giant who has horns on his head.

Pangu began creating the world: he separated yin from yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the earth and the sky .

In some versions of the story, Pangu is aided in this task by the four most prominent beasts, namely the Turtle, the Qilin, the Phoenix, and the Dragon.

Pangu's breath became the wind, mist and clouds; his voice, thunder; his left eye, the Sun; his right eye, the Moon; his head, the mountains and extremes of the world; his blood, rivers; his muscles, fertile land; his facial hair, the stars and Milky Way; his fur, bushes and forests; his bones, valuable minerals; his bone marrow, precious jewels; his sweat, rain; and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became animals.

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Senior Scholar Wei Juxian states that the Pangu story is derived from stories during the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Pangu cites the story of Zhong and Li in the "Chuyu" section of the ancient classics Guoyu.

Pangu myth appears to have been preceded in ancient Chinese literature by the existence of Shangdi or Taiyi .

Pangu was forced to remarry and eventually died on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

Pangu's made peace with him and they went on to pay their respects to Pangu annually on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

Pangu is worshipped at a number of shrines in contemporary China, usually with Taoist symbols, such as the Bagua.