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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Chinese mythology

At the moment this page contains a list of links. This list itself does not provide the information that this article should include. Please help wikipedia by expanding this article, once a sufficient amount of information has been added please remove this message. Thank you! Chinese mythology is the mythology of Chinese civilization. Many of the legends of Chinese mythology take place during the period of Sanhuangwudi. Chinese mythology - Important mythologies and deities. Nüwa (女媧): Nüw ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Yan Luo Chinese mythology In Chinese Mythology, Yan Luo (閻羅) is the god of death and the ruler of hell (Feng-Du). The name Yan Luo is a shortened Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit term Yama Raja (閻魔羅社). His personification is always male, and his minions include a judge who holds in his hands a brush and a book listing every soul and the allotted death date for every life. Bullhead and Horseface, the fearsome guardians of hel ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia II - Chinese constellation - Mythology

The belief of the heavens being governed by these four (sometimes five, completing the elemental cycle of the five Chinese elements; the fifth is at the centre and is a Golden Dragon that binds the universe together) symbols. The Azure Dragon was associated with the element of wood, the Vermillion Bird with fire, the White Tiger with gold/metal, and the Black Tortoise was associated with water. The fifth element, earth, was associated with the Golden Dragon. This belief extended from China to Korea and Japan. In Japan, the Four Symbols are refered to as Seiryuu (Azure Dragon), Suzaku (Vermillion Bird ...

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Chinese constellation - Mythology

Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Underworld

Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Beralku Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Ereshkigal Nergal Underworld - Babylonian mythology. Kurnugia Underworld - Buddhist mythology. Naraka (also Neraka) Underworld - Celtic mythology. Annwn Mag Mell ...

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Underworld - Underworlds

Underworld - Rulers of the Underworld

Underworld - Fictional underworlds

Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Chinese literature

List of Chinese authors, List of Taiwanese authors, List of Hong Kong authors, Chinese classic texts, Chinese art, Chinese language, Chinese mythology, Chinese culture, Literature of Hong Kong, Literature of Taiwan, Tea Classics Chinese literature - Classical Poetry. Classical Chinese poetry List of Chinese language poets Chinese literature - Classical Prose. Eight Great Literary Masters of the Tang and Song (Tang Dyn ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - World egg

A world egg or cosmic egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg. World egg - Chinese mythology. In the myth of Pangu, developed by Taoist monks hundreds of years after Lao Zi, the universe began as an egg. A god named Pangu, born inside the egg, broke it into two halves: the upper half became the sky, while th ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Jade Emperor

The Jade Emperor (玉皇 Pinyin: Yù Huáng or 玉帝 Yù Dì), known informally by children and commoners as Grandpa Heaven (天公 Tiān Gōng) and known formally as the Pure August Jade Emperor or August Personage of Jade (玉皇上帝 Yu Huang Shangdi or 玉皇大帝 Yu Huang Dadi), is the ruler of Heaven according to Chinese mythology and among the ...

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Jade Emperor - Chinese mythology

Jade Emperor - Worship and festivals

Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Solar deity

A solar deity is a deity who represents the sun, or an aspect of it. People have worshipped the sun and solar deities for all of recorded history. Hence, many beliefs and legends have been formed around this worship, most notably the various myths containing the "missing sun" motif from around the world. Although many sources contend that solar deities are generally male, and the brother, father, husband and/or enemy of the lunar deity (usually female), this is not cross-culturally upheld, as sun goddesses are found on every continent ...

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Solar deity - Examples

Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Tortoise

Chersina Dipsochelys Furculachelys Geochelone Gopherus Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus Manouria Psammobates Pyxis Testudo The tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile which is of the order Testudines. As with its aquatic cousins, the turtle and the terrapin, the tortoise is shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is called the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoi ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Fengshen Yanyi

Fengshen Yanyi (Traditional Chinese: 封神演義; Simplified Chinese: 封神演义) (translated as The Investiture of the Gods or The Creation of the Gods), also known as Fengshen Bang (Traditional Chinese: 封神榜; Simplified Chinese: 封神榜), is one of the major works of classical Chinese literature created in Ming dynasty. The story deals with the decline of the Shang dynasty and rise of the Zhou dynasty, intertwining numerous elements of Chinese mythology, including gods and goddesses, Chin ...

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Fengshen Yanyi - Fengshen Yanyi in Modern Culture

Fengshen Yanyi - Modern adaptations

Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Fusang

Fusang (扶桑) is a country described by a Buddhist missionary, Hei-Shin (慧深) in 499 CE, as a place 20,000 Chinese miles (around 1,500 kilometers) beyond the sea to the east of China. Hei-Shin went by ship to Fusang, and upon his return reported his findings to the Chinese Emperor. His descriptions are recorded in the Liang Shu (History of the Liang Dynasty, by Yao Silian, 7th century). A common interpretation of the term "Fusang" is Japan, although in Hei-Shin's report Fusang is presented as distinct from the statelet of ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Shang Dynasty

Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝) or Yin Dynasty (殷代) (1600 BC - 1046 BC) is the first historic Chinese dynasty and ruled in the northeastern region of China proper. The Shang dynasty followed the quasi-legendary Xia Dynasty and preceded the Zhou Dynasty. Information about the Shang Dynasty comes from bronze artifacts and oracle bones--turtle shells or cattle scapula on which were written the first recorded Chinese characters, which were found in the Huang He valley. These bones typically had three sections: a question for th ...

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Shang Dynasty - Sovereigns of the Shang Dynasty

Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Chinese traditional religion

Chinese traditional religion is a loosely-connected system of practices and beliefs that has been practiced by large segments of the Han Chinese population of China from the early period of Chinese continuing to the present. With the influx of Western cultural influences for several centuries and the complex developments and modernization of the 20th century, the prevalence of Chinese traditional beliefs has declined, but still remain strong, many or most gradually transforming into elements of culture and social b ...

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Bi Fang

Bi Fang is the God of Fire in Chinese mythology. Other related archivesChinese mythology, Fire, God

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Xuan Nu

In Chinese mythology Xuan Nu (玄女) assisted Huang Di to subdue Chi You. Other related archivesChi You, Chinese mythology, Huang Di

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - A Xiang

In Chinese mythology, A Xiang is the driver of the chariot of the God of Thunder. Other related archivesChinese, God of Thunder, mythology

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Chinese Mythology: Encyclopedia - Chinese dragon

The Chinese dragon (龍; pinyin: lóng; Cantonese: loong; Hokkien: leng; Japanese: ryū; Korean: yong; Vietnamese: long) is a mythical creature. Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art, it is the embodiment of the concept of yang and associated with the weather and water as the bringer of rain. The dragon is sometimes viewed in the West as a national emblem of China. However, this usage within both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan is extremely rare, both because the dragon ...

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