共工怒触不周山的故事，最完整的记载见于西汉的《淮南子·天文训》：「昔者共工与颛顼争为帝，怒而触不周之山，天柱折，地维绝。」更早的《楚辞·天问》也问过：「康回冯怒，地何故以东南倾？」东汉王逸注释说，康回就是共工的名字。

The fullest account of Gong Gong crashing into Mount Buzhou is in the Huainanzi of the Western Han, in the chapter on the patterns of heaven: long ago Gong Gong fought Zhuanxu to become ruler, and in his fury he struck Mount Buzhou, breaking the pillar of heaven and snapping the cords that held the earth. Even earlier, the Heavenly Questions in the Chu Ci asks why the earth tilts to the southeast when Kang Hui was enraged, and the Eastern Han scholar Wang Yi explained that Kang Hui was the name of Gong Gong.

这则神话其实是古人对中国地形的一种解释。《淮南子》接着写道：「天倾西北，故日月星辰移焉；地不满东南，故水潦尘埃归焉。」中国的地势正是西高东低，长江、黄河等大江大河都向东流入大海，古人便想象这是共工撞断天柱的结果。

This myth is really an ancient explanation of the landscape of China. The Huainanzi goes on to say that heaven tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars move that way, and the earth sank in the southeast, so the waters and dust flow there. China really is high in the west and low in the east, and great rivers such as the Yangtze and the Yellow River all flow east into the sea, so people of old imagined it was because Gong Gong broke the pillar of heaven.

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