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Curculigo orchioides (commonly called golden eye-grass, xian mao, weevil-wort, [1] कालो मुस्ली (in Nepal) black musli, [2] Kali musli, [3] or Kali Musali [4]) is a flowering plant species in the genus Curculigo. It is native to Nepal, China, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Papuasia, and Micronesia.
Queen Mother of the West is a calque of Xiwangmu in Chinese sources, Seiōbo in Japan, Seowangmo in Korea, and Tây Vương Mẫu in Vietnam. She has numerous titles, one being Yaochi Jinmu (瑤池金母), the "Golden Mother of the Jade Pond (瑤池)" [4] (also translated "Turquoise Pond" [5][6]). She is also known in contemporary sources as ...
Chinese folk religion. 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. [1] The gods are energies or principles ...
The Wansheng Dragon King (萬聖龍王) is a yaoguai based in Emerald Waves Lake (碧波潭) at Rocky Mountain (亂石山) in the Kingdom of Jisai (祭賽國). He plots with his son-in-law, the Nine-Headed Beast, to steal a śarīra from the pagoda in Golden Ray Monastery ( 金光寺 ) and release a rain of blood in the kingdom.
American Dragon: Jake Long, or simply American Dragon, is an American animated television series. It was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, created by Jeff Goode and co-developed by Eddie Guzelian and Matt Negrete. It premiered on Disney Channel on January 21, 2005, and ended on September 1, 2007. [2] Fifty-two episodes were produced.
Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908. Selected as a concubine of the ...
Zhulong / ˈ dʒ uː l ɒ ŋ / or Zhuyin / ˈ dʒ uː j ɪ n /, also known in English as the Torch Dragon, was a giant red solar dragon and god in Chinese mythology. It supposedly had a human's face and snake's body, created day and night by opening and closing its eyes, and created seasonal winds by breathing.
American Dragons. American Dragons (also known as Double Edge) is a 1998 action crime thriller film directed by Ralph Hemecker and starring Michael Biehn, Park Joong-hoon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Don Stark and Byron Mann. It was written by Erik Saltzgaber and Keith W. Strandberg and produced by Brad Krevoy.