The creation myth of Chinese Mythology (in simplified Chinese 中国神话) is actually a combination of China’s Confucian literature, Daoist literature and folk beliefs, but between different versions of the myths there would always be a situation of conflict. When discussing about who is the creator of the world, there would usually be some common ones, who are the God, the sky, Nu Wa, pangu and the Jade Emperor. These different people have different characteristics and different thing such that people would believe they are the creator of the world.

For the God, the first place where his name was seen is in the Book. From this source, he might be existed in 700BC or earlier. From many literatures, God was given a lot of “human” interpretation. Documented in Zhuangzi chaos, the God was regarded as the most “human” image. Of course, one thing that needs to be clarified is that the “God” mentioned here is not the God of Christian. It is just the Chinese God.

The Sky is also known as the King Sky. Since ancient Chinese depended on farming heavily, what the sky happen would affect their lives a lot and therefore, they would regard the Sky as one of the creators of the world. Thus, Emperor would usually call themselves as “Son of the Sky” and gain the support of the people.

Nu Wa first appeared in Songs of the South Liezi and she probably existed in 350 BC or earlier. In the myth, she is the image of half-human, half snake, and together with Fuxi she was the ancestor of mankind. When there was once a very severe disaster happened in China, people said that she once used a lot of stones to repair the problem.

The earliest historical record about the Pangu comes from the whole of the Three Kingdoms. According to it, he opened the world with a broken axe and he used his dead body, upon his death, to create all the things in the world nowadays.

Jade Emperor is usually regarded as the leader of all Chinese god and goddess.