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梟楊 "owl poplar") is a final example of Chinese mythological xiaos. This xiao is an archaic name for "owl" (maotouying 貓頭鷹 "cat-head hawk" in modern usage), and the Yang clan in southwestern China were supposedly descended from monkeys. [26] The variant transcription xiaoyang 梟羊 "owl goat" names the legendary feifei 狒狒 "a man ...
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]
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).
Xiao (mythology) (Chinese: 嚣), certain legendary creatures in Chinese mythology Ling Xiaoyu , a character from the Tekken video game series, also known as Xiao Xiao, a character in 2020 video game Genshin Impact
The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...
Zhu Bajie (豬八戒), also known by his Buddhist name Zhu Wuneng (豬悟能), is originally the Marshal of the Heavenly Canopy (天蓬元帥) who was banished from Heaven for attempting to seduce Chang'e and reincarnated as a humanoid monster with a pig's head. He becomes Tang Sanzang's second disciple and accompanies the monk on his quest for ...
Chinese mythology holds that the Jade Emperor was charged with running of the three realms: heaven, hell, and the realm of the living. The Jade Emperor adjudicated and meted out rewards and remedies to saints, the living, and the deceased according to a merit system loosely called the Jade Principles Golden Script (玉律金篇, Yù lǜ jīn piān
Xiao Ling (Chinese: 小灵; pinyin: xiǎo líng, only appears in Shaosiming's special edition): One of the students from the Heaven Clan. Little is known about him, but he entered Yin-Yang School's Water Division and did everything to find his lost sister, Xiao Yi(Chinese: 小衣; pinyin: xiǎo yī). Five years later, he met a nameless girl ...