在古代典籍中,女媧神話的主題主要集中在補天和造人上,情節也較為簡單。而在民間,勞動民眾以他們對歷史的理解與評判,用他們的審美情趣與敘事風格,對女媧神話進行了再創造,主題上有所擴展,想象更加豐富大膽,情節愈加生動完整,語言鮮活富有生活情趣,並且在多則傳說中加入了推原情節,為傳統的女媧神話注入了新的活力,較好地體現了民間傳說的傳承性與變異性。

In the ancient works, the theme of the Nv Wa Myth is mainly about mending the sky and creating human beings, the plot of which is simpler. In folk,however, people made the Nv Wa Myth recreated by using their aethestic standards and narrative styles with their own understanding and judgement, in which the theme was broader, imagination was richer and bolder, the plot was more vivid and completed and the language was more alive and fuller of spice of life. In addition, it pushed the plot in many items of the legend, injecting new vitality into the traditional Nv Wa,which better showed the inheritance and variability of folk legends.