The first writer to record the myth of Pangu was Xu Zheng during the Three Kingdoms period . Recently his name was found in a tomb dated 194 AD . In the beginning there was nothing in the universe except a formless chaos. This chaos coalesced into a cosmic egg for about 18,000 years. Within it , the perfectly opposed principles of Yin and Yang became balanced , and Pangu emerged (or woke up) from the egg. Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive , hairy giant who has horns on his head and wears furs. Pangu began creating the world : he separated Yin from Yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the Earth (murky Yin) and the Sky (clear Yang). To keep them separated, Pangu stood between them and pushed up the Sky. With each day the sky grew ten feet (3 meters) higher, the Earth ten feet thicker, and Pangu ten feet taller. 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 . The goddess Nüwa then used yellow clay to form humans. These humans were very smart since they were individually crafted . Nüwa then became tired of individually making every human , so she dipped a rope in mud and blobs that fell from it became new humans although not as smart as the original ones
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