On the earth, there were many people and animals originally, but due to a great catastrophe, they all disappeared, leaving only Fu Xi （伏羲） and Nu Wa （女娲）.What kind of catastrophe was it exactly?And how did Fu Xi and Nu Wa survive this catastrophe?
Fu Xi and Nu Wa were brother and sister, but later they got married.
When they were children, their village hadn’t rained for most of the year. The crops were dying, and people were also dying of thirst.
The villagers asked their father for help because he knew magic and could communicate with gods.
Their father angrily said to the sky, “If it doesn’t rain within three days, I will make Lei Gong (the Thunder God) fall from the sky!”
The next day, it really rained, and the crops were saved. People were very happy.
But their father offended Lei Gong （雷公） because of this, and Lei Gong wanted revenge.
Their father prepared an iron cage and a fork, waiting for Lei Gong to come.
One day, Lei Gong came with a fierce look, and their father hit him with the fork.
Their father put Lei Gong in the iron cage and cast a spell on him.
Their father asked Fu Xi and Nu Wa to guard Lei Gong and told them not to give him water to drink.
After their father left, Lei Gong groaned and begged for water.
Fu Xi said they couldn’t give it, but Nu Wa softened and gave Lei Gong a few drops of water.
Lei Gong regained his power after getting the water and broke the iron cage.
To thank the siblings, Lei Gong gave them a tooth and said that if they planted it in the soil, it would grow into a gourd, and they could hide inside it during disasters.
When their father returned and found out that Lei Gong had escaped, he built an iron ship just in case.
The siblings planted the tooth and a huge gourd grew out.
Lei Gong retaliated by ordering the Rain God to keep raining, and the flood淹没d the earth.
Their father hid in the iron ship, while the siblings hid in the gourd and floated to the sky with the flood.
Their father knocked on the gate of heaven to make the flood go away, but the iron ship fell from the sky and broke into pieces, killing him.
The siblings came out of the gourd and were safe.
Everyone and every animal on the earth died except Fu Xi and Nu Wa.
The gods blamed Lei Gong, who regretted it. The gods then asked Fu Xi and Nu Wa to marry and reproduce a new humanity.
Fu Xi and Nu Wa said they wouldn’t marry unless bamboo could be reconnected.
The gods reconnected the bamboo, and it became jointed.
Fu Xi and Nu Wa got married and gave birth to a meatball two years later.
They crushed the meatball and scattered it, and fish, birds, animals, and people appeared.
From then on, there were people and animals on the earth again.
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