炼石补天 LIAN4 DAN4 BU3 TIAN1

Posted by elvis | Posted in L1 | Posted on 04-02-2009

炼石补天
melt down stones to repair the sky; have supernatural power to remedy a situation; cast water into the thames; perform useless labour
“原来女娲氏炼石补天之时,于大荒山无稽崖练成高经十二丈,方经二十四丈顽石三万六千五百零一块.”
“when the goddess nu wa melted down rocks to repair the sky, at baseless cliff in the great waste mountain she made thirty-six thousand five hundred and one blocks of stone, each a hundred and twenty feet high and two hundred and forty feet square. ”
其文化英雄神格则主要是通过女娲炼石补天和置神?两方面,深入阐释石头作为构成女娲神话的主要因子,其中所蕴藏的深厚原始灵石崇拜文化。
then as for her god dignity ofhuman cultural hero, i , by analyzing the myth of mending the sky by stone-melting and theestablishment of marrige institution, further explain the culture of adoring the living stone inthe stone, which is the main ingredient in the myth of nu wa.

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