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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
Chinese Standard Bible (CSB 中文标准译本 Zhongwen biaozhun yiben), New Testament, Global Bible Initiative and Holman Bible Publishers 2011 Chinese NET Bible ( NET圣经 中译本 ), 2011–2012 Contemporary Chinese Version (CCV), The New Testament, 《圣经．新汉语译本》 Chinese Bible International ( 汉语圣经协会 ) 2010
Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees.
Chinese creation myths are symbolic narratives about the origins of the universe, earth, and life. Myths in China vary from culture to culture. In Chinese mythology, the term "cosmogonic myth" or "origin myth" is more accurate than "creation myth", since very few stories involve a creator deity or divine will.
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 ...
Isobel Miller Kuhn also worked on the translation. The New Testament was finished in 1938, and the complete Bible in 1968. The Trinitarian Bible Society completed a translation in 1980, with some light revisions having been made in the later part of that decade. [2] An annotated Bible in Lisu was completed in 2013 from the United Bible ...
A simplified Chinese Bible along with Pinyin, text rendered in the Roman alphabet, was published in 2004. On July 5, 2019 Jehovah's Witnesses released the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in Chinese Traditional and Simplified at a regional convention at the National Taiwan Sport University Stadium in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
Authors and playwrights have written numerous stories and plays on the Eight Immortals. One famous story that has been rewritten many times and turned into several plays (the most famous written by Mu Zhiyuan in the Yuan Dynasty) is The Yellow-Millet Dream, which is the story of how Lǚ Dòngbīn met Zhongli Quan and began his path to immortality.