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The story as told is that there were three goddesses in the era of Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor), namely Sunü (Chinese: 素女, "the Simple Woman"), Xuannü (Chinese: 玄女, "the Mysterious Woman"), and Cainü (Chinese: 彩女, "the Colorful Woman"); the three sisters taught the Huangdi Taoist sexual practices, the theory of sex, and ...
Xiaoqing (Chinese: 小青; lit. 'Little Qing'; Little Blue or Little Green) or Qingqing (Chinese: 青青) is a green or blue snake spirit and one of the protagonists of the Legend of the White Snake, one of China's "four great folktales". [1]
Shuimu (Chinese: 水母), or Shuimu Niangniang (Chinese: 水母娘娘), is a water demon, spirit or witch of Buddhist and Taoist origin in Chinese mythology. [1] She is also identified with the youngest sister of the transcendent White Elephant (Buddha's gate-warder). [2]
Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) [a] [1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, [2] hunting, fishing, domestication, [3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC [4] or 2000 BC.
The Legend of the White Snake is a Chinese legend centered around a romance between a man named Xu Xian and a female snake spirit named Bai Suzhen.It is counted as one of China's Four Great Folktales, the others being Lady Meng Jiang, Butterfly Lovers, and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Yunhua (Chinese: 云华; lit. 'Lady Cloudy Flower'), is a Chinese goddess and mother of the god Erlang Shen. [1] She appeared in classical Chinese literary works such as Erlang Baojuan (The Precious Scroll of Erlang) and Journey to the West as well as in folktales.
The Qiao sisters are featured as characters in the 14th-century historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. In the novel, the Chinese character for "Qiao" in their names, 橋/桥, is replaced with 喬/乔.
Along with Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology forms an important part of Chinese folk religion (Yang et al 2005, 4). Many stories regarding characters and events of the distant past have a double tradition: ones which present a more historicized or euhemerized version and ones which presents a more mythological version (Yang et al 2005, 12–13).