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A picture of a child with a fish expresses the wishes of having an "abundance of high-ranking sons". [3]: 124 Due to their association with wealth, fishes are eaten on Chinese New Year as they expresses the wishes of being affluent year by year [3]: 124 or "bring abundance of good wishes throughout the year".
Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology; Four Perils; Four Symbols, also called Sixiang, four legendary animals that represent the points of the compass.
This article is a list of topics in Chinese mythology. Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature from the area now known as China. Chinese mythology includes many varied myths from regional and cultural traditions. Chinese mythology is far from monolithic, not being an integrated system ...
In Chinese literature, the Daoist classic Zhuangzi has the oldest record of the Kun Peng myth. The first chapter ("Free and Easy Wandering" 逍遙遊 pinyin xiāoyáoyóu) begins with three versions of this parable; the lead paragraph, a quote from the Qixie (齊諧 "Universal Harmony", probably invented by Zhuangzi), and a quote from the Tang zhi wen Ji (湯之問棘 "Questions of Tang to Ji ...
An illustration of Heluo fish from the 18th-century Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China.. In Chinese mythology, Heluo fish (simplified Chinese: 何罗鱼; traditional Chinese: 何羅魚; pinyin: Héluóyú) and Zi fish (simplified Chinese: 茈鱼; traditional Chinese: 茈魚; pinyin: Zǐyú) are fish with one head and ten bodies.
Various mythology of China involves fish or fish-like beings. Part human, part sea creatures of the Mermaid (人魚) type appear. The Kun (or Peng) was a giant monstrous fish transformation of the Peng bird. Carp that leapt the dragon gate falls of the Yellow River were said to transform into dragons.
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The human-fish were also known as "child-fish" or haieryu (孩 兒魚; 孩儿鱼). [22] [30] The other type, called the niyu (鯢魚) is elaborated in a separate section. [33] It has been noted by Li Shizhen that the character for the Niyu (Ni 鯢 fish) consists of the "fish" indexing component (魚) and "child" (兒) radical. [32]