共工怒触不周山

上古神话：水神共工与颛顼争帝失败，怒触不周山，天柱折、地维绝，天倾西北、地不满东南，故江河东流。此变局之后，才有女娲补天的修补叙事。共工故事解释宇宙「倾斜」与治水想象，是创世链条上的关键一环：破坏、失衡、再修复。

In early myth, the water deity Gonggong loses a struggle for power and smashes Mount Buzhou in rage. The sky-pillar breaks; heaven tilts northwest and earth sinks southeast—so rivers run east. This catastrophe sets the stage for Nüwa’s later repair of the sky. Teach it as cosmology-story: imbalance, flood imagination, and the need for restoration after force.

共工触不周：怒与力可改天地倾斜——神话把灾变写成意志的余波。读时可问：愤怒解决了什么，又弄塌了什么。怒若改了天地，也改了众人的立足处。今日：发泄若只改地轴、不修关系，代价常由众人承担。

Gonggong strikes Buzhou: rage and force tilt heaven and earth—myth casts catastrophe as will’s aftershock. Ask what anger fixed, and what it toppled. Today: if venting only shifts the axis and never repairs relation, the cost is social.