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Chang Lo Co built a house roofed with banana leaves. The Thunder Chief, wanting to destroy the house, transformed himself into a cock and landed on it, but he fell from the slippery roof and was caught and caged by Chang. Chang planned to slaughter the cock for a party and went to buy some wine.

While he was away, his son Phuc Hy looked in the cage and saw the thunder chief, now in the form of a man, and he went to investigate. The thunder chief asked for a drink of water, which the boy fetched for him. The water gave the thunder chief his strength back, and he broke free from the cage. Grateful to the boy, he have Phuc Hy a tooth and told him to sow it. He told that it would grow into a gourd in seven days and warned the boy to take refuge inside the gourd then.

Phuc Hy did as he was instructed. On the seventh day, the gourd was mature, a heavy rain had begun, and he and his sister entered the gourd and sealed the opening with beeswax. They also brought food and a pair of each species of domestic animal.

Chang Lo Co was also aware of the thunder chief's vengeance. He built a raft and sailed on the flood to the gate of heaven to fight the thunder chief, but the flood withdrew too quickly. Chang's raft crashed on a mountain, killing him.

The gourd carrying the siblings landed on Con Lon Mountain. Each sought a spouse, but all other people had been killed. One day, Phuc Hy met a tortoise which told him to marry his sister. Angered by this, he threw a stone at the tortoise, breaking its shell. The tortoise regained its form immediately, but with marks where it had broken. Later, a bamboo told Phuc Hy the same thing, and he cut the bamboo to pieces. The bamboo regenerated, albeit with marks where it had been cut. Seeing these omens, Phuc Hy told his sister that they should marry, but the sister refused.

That night, they slept on opposite sides of a stream. Two trees grew from their bellies as they slept and entangled together. Three years, three months, and three days later, she gave birth to a gourd. Phuc Hy told her to cut it open and sow the seeds, which grew into people. She began sowing in the lowlands and had just a few seeds left when she reached the uplands, which is why the population is greater in the plains.

Dang Nghiem Van, 1993, 326-327.

In another version, the sister gave birth to a leather bag from which ten boys and nine girls emerged to become the ancestors of the races.

Ho Ting-jui, A Comparative Study of the Myths and Legends of Formosan Aborigines, Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs, vol. 18 (Taipei: Orient Culture Service, 1971), 275.