C41. Why is the sky blue. 26.

At first, the sky doesn't have a specific color. After a character hangs cloth on him or does other things, the sky takes on his characteristic color.

Chinese (Liaoning, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan).

China - Korea. Chinese (Liaoning; G. Fushun, Wanhua District, 44-year-old woman, primary education) [Mother Nuiwa collected a lot of stones, there was also a green building stone, repairing the sky by inserting stones into the walls; it remains to repair the northern one side, but there was no suitable stone, and she put in a piece of ice; on the ground, the old people saw this piece and thought that the ice would not withstand the streams from the sky and would fall, people would be crushed; people were desperate and became to work poorly; upon learning of this, the Jade Emperor and Tathagata pointed it out to N.; she blew blue air and finished repairing the sky; it is cold on the north side because a piece of ice is stuck in there; after the sky was repaired, there was nowhere to place the remaining two stones; N. went to Mount Huago and left them there; Mother Sivanmu ("mistress of the West") once stayed at these stones; the stones absorbed the rays The sun and the glitter of the moon split and a stone monkey jumped out of the two halves; it was the one who was named Sun Wukun (King of the Apes)]: Liaoning 1994, No. 1:3; Chinese (Sichuan): Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 18 (y. Pingshan) [The sky was not blue before and consisted of large stones that fell down every time the wind blew. People were scared all the time, and when they went outside, they kept looking up. There was a kind, beautiful and skillful weaver in the world. She started weaving a blue cloth, spent half her life doing it, but she finally finished. When it got dark, she took this cloth, flew up into the sky and hung the sky with it, so that the stones no longer fell and the sky turned blue]: 37;: Zhou Yang et al. 1998 (y. Guanghan) [the evil Gungun killed many people, he had a horn growth on his head; the more people he killed, the bigger the growth became; when he finished killing people, the growth became tall, as big and heavy as a mountain, began to press down Gungun; he became angry and hit Mount Buzhou, which served as a pillar of heaven; the mountain collapsed, the ground shook, and large and small holes through which the waters of the heavenly river flowed to the ground; Nuiva realized that all living things on earth would die in the waters of the flood, collected stones and filled large holes with them, and filled them with small stones small; stars are small stones that Nuiva used to patch the sky; after a long time, the stones decayed, loose and began to fall down; people say that stars defecate]: 26; Chinese ( Shanxi, wu. Pingding) [Lord Yan-di died, his descendants Gong-gong and Chuan-xu began to fight for power; Gong was defeated, hit his head against Mount Buzhou, knocking over the pillars supporting the sky; the sky collapsed in the NW, the sun and moon stopped shining, the rivers overflowed, the Jade Lord sent Nuiwu to earth to patch the sky with molten stones; N. smelted two mountains of stones; to make the supports of the sky, went to the sea ; at this time, the jug she had forgotten continued to burn, broke, half fell into the gorges; N. defeated the sea turtle, cut off its paws, made the supports of the sky, patched it up with five-colored stones, but not one it was enough, because when the jug burst, one stone flew off; N. sighed, exhaled blue air, so the sky was blue]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 2:4-5; Chinese (Henan) [Pan-gu divided the sky and land and has moved them apart for 18,000 years. His son Taishan Lao-Jun (=Lao Tzu) sat in his mother's womb for 80 years, asking him if the sky was ready. In the end, she lied to him, he ate her three ribs and got outside, saw that the sky was not ready, and there was a hole in the northwest. He sealed the hole with a piece of ice, so the wind coming from the northwest is cold. The piece of ice looked different from the rest of the sky, it looked ugly, and then Taishan Lao-Jun took off his blue robe and hung it on the sky, which turned evenly blue. The eight trigrams on the robe turned into the sun and moon, and the patterns into constellations]: Vol. 24:16-17.