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The earliest description of Wuzhiqi can be found in the early 9th century collection of stories from the Tang dynasty, Guoshi bu (國史補) by Li Zhao, which briefly tells of a fisherman in Chuzhou (楚州) who encounters a monkey demon with a black body and a white head in the Huai River. [2]
Chinese water torture, or use of a dripping machine, [1] is a mentally painful process in which cold water is slowly dripped onto the scalp, forehead or face for a prolonged period of time. [1] The process causes fear and mental deterioration of the subject.
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 ...
Water Monkey 22 January 2004: 8 February 2005: Wood Monkey 8 February 2016: 27 January 2017: Fire Monkey 26 January 2028: 12 February 2029: Earth Monkey 12 February 2040: 31 January 2041: Metal Monkey 1 February 2052: 18 February 2053: Water Monkey 17 February 2064: 4 February 2065: Wood Monkey 5 February 2076: 23 January 2077: Fire Monkey 24 ...
The monkey, which lived for 10 days before being euthanized, was made by combining stem cells from a cynomolgus monkey — also known as a crab-eating or long-tailed macaque, a primate used in ...
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]
May 6 – Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor; May 13 – Ernest Torrence, British actor (b. 1878) May 15 – Hermann von François, German general (b. 1856) May 16 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher (b. 1864) [57] May 22 – Sándor Ferenczi, Hungarian psychoanalyst (b ...
Zhong Zhong (Chinese: 中中; pinyin: Zhōng Zhōng, born 27 November 2017) and Hua Hua (Chinese: 华华; pinyin: Huá Huá, born 5 December 2017) are a pair of identical crab-eating macaques (also referred to as cynomolgus monkeys) that were created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996.