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2. List of legendary creatures from China - Wikipedia

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   Chinese guardian lions, traditional architectural ornaments. Guardian lions in Beijing. Chinese dragon; Chinese dragon from around the 17th century. Chituma, steed of General Lü Bu. Chiwen, a dragon that protects against fires, floods, and typhoons. Crane in Chinese mythology

3. Four Symbols - Wikipedia

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   Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including a season of the year, an emotion, virtue, and one of the Chinese "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). Each has been given its own individual traits, origin story and a reason for being.

4. 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 ...

5. Luanniao - Wikipedia

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   The name is sometimes reserved for males, while female luan are called Jīnjī (金雞; lit. golden chicken). [citation needed] The luan is sometimes referred as simurgh by western sinologists when they translate the Chinese term luan; however, they do not refer to the same bird creature [2] [3] and is therefore an inappropriate translation of ...

6. Xiao (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   This xiao is an archaic name for "owl" (maotouying 貓頭鷹 "cat-head hawk" in modern usage), and the Yang clan in southwestern China were supposedly descended from monkeys. [26] The variant transcription xiaoyang 梟羊 "owl goat" names the legendary feifei 狒狒 "a man-eating monkey with long hair", which is the modern Chinese name for ...

7. Four Holy Beasts - Wikipedia

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   The Four Holy Beasts (四靈、四聖獸、or 四大神獸) are Chinese astronomical and cultural Four Benevolent Animals that are spread in the East Asian cultural sphere. They are mentioned in the Chinese classic Book of Rites [ 1 ] and includes the Dragon (龍) in the East, the Qilin (麟) in the West, the Turtle (龜) in the North, and the ...

8. File:Chinese (Mandarin).pdf - Wikipedia

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   English: This is a PDF file of the Mandarin Chinese Wikibook, edited to include only the Introduction, Pronunciation and complete or somewhat complete lessons (Lessons 1-6). Does not include the Appendices, Stroke Order pages, or the Traditional character pages.

9. Four Perils - Wikipedia

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   In the Book of Documents, they are defined as the "Four Criminals" (四罪; Sì Zuì): [1] [2] Gonggong ( Chinese : 共工 ; pinyin : Gònggōng ; lit. 'join(t) works'), the disastrous god; Huandou ( 驩兜 ; Huāndōu ; 'happy helmet', a.k.a. 驩頭 , 讙頭 ; Huāntóu ; 'happy head' [ 3 ] ), a chimeric minister and/or nation from the south ...