女娲补天
Nuwa Mends the Sky
[汉]刘安
By Liu An
往古之时，四极废，九州裂，天不兼覆，地不周栽。火煙焱而不灭，水浩洋而不息。猛兽食颛民，鸷鸟禝老弱。
In ancient times, the four comers of the sky collapsed and the world with its nine regions split open.The sky could not cover all the things under it, nor could the earth carry all ihe things on it. A great fire raged and would not die out; a lierce flood raced about and could not be checked.Savage beasts devoured innocent people; vicious birds preyed on the weak and old.
于是女娲炼五色石以补苍天，断螯足以立四极.杀黑龙以济冀州，积芦灰以止淫水。
Then Nuwa melied rocks of five coiours and used them to mend ihe cracks in the sky,She supported the four comers of the sky with the legs she had cut off from a giant turtle.She killed the black dragon to save the people of Jizhou, and blocked the flood with the ashes of reeds.
苍天补，四极正，淫水溷，冀州平；校虫死，韌民生，背方州，抱阖天。当此之时，禽兽虫蛇，无不匿其爪牙，藏其蛰毒，无有攫噬之心。
Thus the sky was mended, its four comers lifted, the flood tamed, Jizhou
pacified,and harmful birds and beasts killed, and the innocent people were able to live on the square earth under the dome of the sky,It was a time when birds, beasts, insects and snakes no longer used their claws or teeth or poisonous stings, for they did not want to catch or eat weaker things.
考其功烈，上际九天，下契黄轳，名声被后世，光晖熏万物。
Nuwa's deeds benefited the heavens above and the earth below. Her name was remembered by later generations and her light shone on every creation.
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