Dongfang Shuo
In Chinese mythology, Nüwa was the goddess who created the world. She created the animals on different days, and human beings on the seventh day after the creation of the world. "Questions and Answers on Rites and Customs" () by Dong Xun () of the Jin dynasty and the "Book of Divination" (), an earlier of publication by Dongfang Shuo in the Western Han dynasty, both specify the order of creation: