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  2. List of legendary creatures from China - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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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

  5. Chinese gods and immortals - Wikipedia

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    Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities because traditional Chinese religion is polytheistic , stemming from a pantheistic view that divinity is inherent in the world.

  6. Buruma - Wikipedia

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    Buruma may refer to: Buruma, Japanese for bloomers, specifically athletic bloomers; Bulma (ブルマ, Buruma), a character in the Japanese comic series Dragon Ball, by Akira Toriyama; Ian Buruma, pen-name of an author on Japanese culture; Buruma (Baucau), a village in East Timor in the district of Baucau

  7. Chinese folklore - Wikipedia

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    Chinese folklore contains many symbolic folk meanings for the objects and animals within the folktales. One example of this is the symbolic meaning behind frogs and toads. Toads are named Ch'an Chu (蟾蜍) in Chinese, a folklore about Ch'an Chu illustrates the toad imports the implication of eternal life and perpetual. Chinese folklore unfolds ...

  8. Cranes in Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    There are various myths involving cranes, and in Chinese mythology cranes are generally symbolically connected with the idea of longevity. [ 1 ] : 86–87 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In China, the crane mythology is associated with the divine bird worship in the animal totemism ; cranes have a spiritual meaning where they are a form of divine bird which ...

  9. Ian Buruma - Wikipedia

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    Ian Buruma (born 28 December 1951) is a Dutch writer and editor who lives and works in the United States. In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, but left the position in September 2018. Much of his writing has focused on the culture of Asia, particularly that of China and 20th-century Japan.