"In Chinese myths, Nuwa is the creation deity and the heaven-repairing heroine. It was said that there was no creature in the world at the beginning of the genesis. Thus, Nuwa made humans with clay. Soon after that, there was a collapse of the northwest sky followed by gales, heavy rain, snow and hail, and the world was suffering from flood. Seeing this, Nuwa began to repair the sky with stones of five colors and then adjusted the four sky poles in place, which enabled the people to live a happy and peaceful life again. The flood myths are also popular among the ethnic groups in southwest China such as Miao, Zhuang, Yao, Bai, Dai, Hani, Lisujingpo, Buyi, Bulang, Naxi, Lahu, Benglong, Pumi and Achang ethnic groups. These myths relate that the ancient ancestors offended the deities and the God of the Heaven punished them by creating disastrous floods. Only a sister and a brother survived the floods by hiding in a gourd or other flood-proof tools. Later, they got married under the direction of the God and became the ancestors of human beings."

-China Culture.org

"The goddess Nu Wa lived upon the earth that Pangu the giant had created, which was a place teaming with life and filled with beauty, entirely suitable for a goddess. But she was the only goddess on the earth, and she was lonely, although, having always been lonely, she did not know that it was loneliness from which she suffered.

One day, as Nu Wa sat in a state of picturesque but rather abstract emotional emptiness beside a sparkling pond, she chanced to see her reflection in the water, and it occurred to her to try to make a small model of herself from the lakeside mud.

It was a better model than you or I would make, since Nu Wa was a goddess, but even she was surprised when she gently set it down on the ground and it began to move, rose, sang and danced, and called her "mother." Delighted, she made another figure, and another and another, and each came to live in the same way.

Day in and day out Nu Wa amused herself making mud figures and watching them come to life. An at length when she wearied of sculpting them, she chanced to flick drops of mud off a vine, and these too came to life and became human, until there were humans everywhere.

When she finished making humans, Nu Wa taught them to use leaves to cover themselves, and to pick fruit to feed themselves, and to gather in the moonlight to rejoice in their lives. And this was the origin of humans. "

-Chinese Tales