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  2. List of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore - Wikipedia

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    Nü gui (Chinese: 女鬼; pinyin: nǚ guǐ; lit. 'female ghost'), is a vengeful female ghost with long hair in a white or red dress, a recurring trope in folklore, schoolyard rumor-mongering, urban legend, and popular culture. [34] In folklore, this ghost is the spirit of a woman who committed suicide while wearing a red dress.

  3. Hu Tao - Wikipedia

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    Hu Tao can only be obtained via specific banners that ran throughout the update. [20] She was designed to be a primarily offensive character with good damage output. Hu Tao differs from other offense-based characters in that she consumes health points to convert attack damage into Pyro elemental attacks and increase damage.

  4. Ghosts in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    The Ghost Inside (疑神疑鬼; Yi shen yi gui) is a 2005 Chinese horror film directed by Herman Yau, and starring Mainland actors, Liu Ye and Gong Beibi and Taiwanese actress Barbie Shu. The film was produced by the China Film Group and at the time of its filming was the most expensive horror film ever made in mainland China.

  5. Fox spirit - Wikipedia

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    Fox spirit. Huli jing (Chinese: 狐狸精) are Chinese mythological creatures usually capable of shapeshifting, who may either be benevolent or malevolent spirits. In Chinese mythology and folklore, the fox spirit takes variant forms with different meanings, powers, characteristics, and shapes, including huxian (Chinese: 狐仙; lit. 'fox ...

  6. List of Water Margin characters - Wikipedia

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    Chu Jian (褚堅) is the Right Premier (右丞相) and Royal Adviser (太師) of the Liao Empire. He represents the Liao Empire in surrendering to the Song Empire. Youxi Bojin (幽西孛瑾) is the Left Premier (左丞相) of the Liao Empire. Yelü Guozhen (耶律國珍) is Yelü Hui's nephew. He is killed by Dong Ping.

  7. 108 Heroes - Wikipedia

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    The 108 Heroes are the main characters of the Ming dynasty classic Chinese novel the Water Margin, which was written in the 14th century and usually attributed to Shi Nai'an. The heroes are divided into the 36 Heavenly Spirits and 72 Earthly Fiends, groups that are based on a belief in Daoism that Ursa Major has 36 Heavenly stars and 72 Earthly ...

  8. Hun and po - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Bronze script for po 魄 or 霸 "lunar brightness" Chinese Seal script for po 魄 "soul" Chinese Seal script for hun 魂 "soul". Like many Chinese characters, 魂 and 魄 are "phono-semantic" or "radical-phonetic" graphs combining a semantic radical showing the rough meaning of the character with a phonetic guide to its former pronunciation in Ancient Chinese.

  9. Yaoguai - Wikipedia

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    Yaoguai (Chinese: 妖怪; pinyin: yāoguài) are a class of creatures in Chinese mythology, folk tales, and literature that are defined by their supernatural (or preternatural) abilities [1][2] and by being strange, uncanny or weird. [1][3][4] A popular translation for them in Western texts is simply "demon", [5][6][7] but this label can be ...