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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).
Illustration from the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (early 18th century) Stone carving at the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, with inscription "Kua Fu Chases the Sun" Kuafu (Chinese: 夸父) is a giant in Chinese mythology who wished to capture the Sun. [3] He was a grandson of Houtu. [4]
China is the home of many mythological traditions, including that of Han Chinese and their Huaxia predecessors, as well as Tibetan mythology, Turkic mythology, Korean mythology, and many others. The study of Chinese mythology tends to focus upon material in Chinese language.
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Feng (mythology), an edible monster that resembles a two-eyed lump of meat and magically grows back as fast as it is eaten. 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 ...
The Food of China. Yale. ISBN 9780300039559. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Translated by Birrell, Anne. Penguin Classics. 2000. Eberhard, Wolfram (1968). The Local Cultures of South and East China. E.J. Brill. OCLC 1006434315. Girardot, Norman J. (1983). Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hun-Tun). University of ...
This myth has a long history of being transmitted by Han Chinese and several of the other ethnic groups of the fifty-six officially recognized by the current administration of China, both orally and in literature. [1] [2] (Yang 2005:4) The Panhu myth is an important origin myth for various ethnic groups.
Yi (Chinese: 益, Yì; fl. 2nd millennium BCE) was a tribal leader of Longshan culture and a culture hero in Chinese mythology who helped Shun and Yu the Great control the Great Flood; he served afterwards as a government minister and a successor as ruler of the empire