 Even today, when a man takes a wife, they hold a fan, which is a symbol of what happened long ago.One of the most popular creation myths in Chinese mythology describes the first-born semidivine human Pangu (, "Coiled Antiquity") separating the world egg-like Hundun (, "primordial chaos") into Heaven and Earth.However, none of the ancient Chinese classics mentions the Pangu myth, which was first recorded in the 3rd-century "Sanwu Liji" (, "Historical Records of the Three Sovereign Divinities and the Five Gods"), attributed to the Three Kingdoms period Taoist author Xu Zheng.