According to Chinese mythology, mountains and the trees occupied by animals and birds, great female Goddess (her represented with a human body, the bird's legs and a snake tail) wandered. People yet were not then. She has taken a handful of yellow clay and blinded one small figure, then another, a third... They have come to life. They were first people. However, having understood, that will fill in such a way the world with human beings uneasy, the Goddess has simplified the work. She has taken a cord, has lowered it in a bog, then has pulled out and began to shake clay on the ground. Thus, from each slice of clay arose a person. But also the given way has seemed unproductive. Therefore the Goddess has established the form of a marriage for people (as Chinese myth talks created manually people became ancestors rich and notable, created later have caused poor). From lines of sources we know and about husband of Goddess, the Cultural hero, thought up various musical instruments (for example, a psaltery), to given people fire, and created eight trigrammes which are basis conjectural "the Book of Changes". Nevertheless, the God of Sun ("Red imperor") was considered as more powerful spirit. He was rather mercy to people also having learned them to sow cereals and giving them light and is warm. Other name of his god is "Divine Farmer. Ancient Chineses represented his having a body of man and a head of bull.