According to Classified Anthology of Literary Works, the sky and the earth were at first one blurred entity like an egg.
据《艺文类聚》记载：天之初，浑沌一体，像鸡蛋一样。
Pangu was born into it.
盘古便生于其中。
The separation of the sky and the earth took eighteen thousand years-the yang which was light and pure rose to become the sky, and the yin which was heavy and murky sank to form the earth.
天地开辟耗时18000年之久：阳清者上升为天，阴浊者下沉为地。
Between the sky and the earth was Pangu, who went through changes with them.
盘古在天地之间，随着天地的变化而变化。
Every day the sky rose ten feet higher, the earth became ten feet thicker, and Pangu grew ten feet taller.
天日高一丈，地日厚一丈，盘古也日长一丈。
Another eighteen thousand years passed, and there was an extremely high sky, an extremely thick earth, and an extremely tall Pangu.
如此又过了一万八千年，天变得极高，地变得极厚，盘古也变得极长，
The sky is ninety thousand li from the earth.
天地之间的距离有九万里。
Nobody knows how many years passed, and then Pangu finally fell down.
又不知过了多少年，盘古终于倒下了。
Just before his death, the earth underwent a miraculous change：
就在盘古临死的时候,世界突然发生了奇异的变化:
Pangu's breath turned into wind and cloud,
他呼出的气变成了风云，
his sound thunderbolt,
声音变成了雷霆，
his left eye the sun,
左眼变成了太阳，
his right eye the moon,
右眼变成了月亮，
his four limbs the four corners of the sky, his five body constituents the Five Famous Mountains in China,
四肢五体变成了四极五岳，
his blood the rivers,
血液变成了江河，
his veins the roads,
筋脉变成了道路，
his muscles the fields,
肌肉变成了田土，
his hair and moustache the stars,
发髭变成了星辰，
his skin and hair the grass and trees,
皮毛变成了草木，
his teeth and bones the metals and stones,
齿骨变成了金石，
his marrow the pearls and jades,
精髓变成了珠玉，
and his sweat the rain.
汗水变成了雨泽。
The vitality in Pangu,
而盘古身体中的生命体，
touched by the wind,
因风所感，
turned into the common people.
变成了老百姓。
Thus came the dawn of the vigorous earth.
世界从此充满了活力。
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