The Dragon Picture of Biography 3

After patching the sky, those who survived came to the river. They have fire, a wedding rope, and five-color stones, as well as new hunger, old marriage robbery, endless fisheries, and floods that no one can understand. When Xi first cast the net into the river, the old man said that he had stolen the tooth of the water god. But the broken net later rescued the child, and also picked up the patterns on the fish scales, the changes in the star shadows, and the old totems that the various tribes refused to give up. He learned to count from the knots, saw the flow of water from the fish scales, revised the wedding from the disputes before the fire, and combined the dragon patterns from the snake patterns, antlers, bird feathers and the backs of river animals. Later generations said that Fuxi painted hexagrams, made nets and silk baskets, fixed marriages, and made harps and harps. Those who have actually seen him only remember: He often squats in front of wet stones, pressing the broken net with one hand and holding a stone knife in the other, carving the chaos into patterns that others can understand.