The Father Earth in Charge of Four Seasons
In ancient times，the whole world was dark and chaotic.Later，Pan Gu created the earth and distributed the sun，the moon and stars.Pan Sheng，Pan Gu's younger brother，created all things，and then creatures came into being.Shen Nong taught people to make five kinds of cereals and provided them with a source of livelihood，but people did not know when to plant it and when to harvest it.Later，Fu Xi created Bagua（Eight Trigrams：eight combinations of three lines each—all solid，all broken，or a combination of solid and broken lines joined in pairs to form 64 hexagrams used in divination），setting a year and four seasons according to the heat and the cold of the sun to the earth.But who would manage the four seasons of the year？After Pan Gu and Pan Sheng discussed about it，they called the five brothers of Jin（gold），Mu（wood），Shui（water），Huo（fire）and Tu（earth）to jointly manage the four seasons.
But the five brothers made a mess of things because each thought differently.Sometimes all of them ignored things，so even a small thing could not be settled down.Later，the big brother Jin called his four younger brothers to discuss how to divide the four seasons，one for charging a few days.But how four seasons could be properly divided by five brothers？After several days of discussion，nothing was settled.
One day，the youngest brother Tu went out for playing.Mu，the second brother，who was hot-tempered，asked all his other brothers to divide the four seasons.
When the youngest brother Tu came back，he was so angry to hear his four elder brothers had divided the four seasons and he got no one.He kept crying and shouting loudly.Although Huo got the name of“fire”，he was cold by nature.He pretended not to hear it and ignored it.Mu kept scolding Tu，“How can you manage the four seasons in such a young age？What's wrong with us working so hard to manage it and let you eat and do nothing at home？”Jin and Shui had always been mild-mannered and fair-minded，and they felt it was inappropriate not to let their youngest brother Tu take part in the management.Therefore，they each proposed to give up 18 days to Tu for managing the season.Huo agreed to give up 18 days.Though Mu is an impetuous person，he had to give up 18 days.Tu had to agree with the suggestion that each brother gave up 18 days to him and he got the same amount of days as theirs to manage.However，he was still not satisfied and often cried when he took office.Although he was young and had a short time to manage，people thought that the Father Earth was also in charge of the four seasons.