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Yu (fish) Fishes are a symbol of wealth in Chinese culture. [3]: 124 The Chinese character for fish is yu (traditional Chinese: 魚; simplified Chinese: 鱼; pinyin: yú). It is pronounced with a different tone in modern Chinese, 裕 (yù) means "abundance". Alternatively, 餘, meaning "over, more than", is a true homophone, so the common ...
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 ...
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Diyu (Chinese: 地獄): hell, the subterranean land inhabited by souls of dead humans and various supernatural beings. Eight Pillars: pillars between Earth and Heaven, supporting the sky. Feather Mountain: a place of exile during or just after the world flood. Fusang: a mythical island interpreted to be Japan.
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. Fuxi was counted as the first ...
Chinese mythology (simplified Chinese : 中国神话; traditional Chinese : 中國神話; pinyin : Zhōngguó shénhuà) is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural traditions.
Hundun (Chinese: 混沌; pinyin: Hùndùn; Wade–Giles: Hun4-tun4; lit. 'muddled confusion') is both a "legendary faceless being" in Chinese mythology and the "primordial and central chaos " in Chinese cosmogony, comparable with the world egg.
The Chinese idea of the universal God is expressed in different ways. There are many names of God from the different sources of Chinese tradition. [17] The radical Chinese terms for the universal God are Tian (天) and Shangdi (上帝, "Highest Deity") or simply, Dì (帝, "Deity"). [18] [19] There is also the concept of Tàidì (太帝, "Great ...