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China's big cat species include the tiger, leopard, snow leopard and clouded leopard. The tiger is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, and figures prominently in Chinese culture and history. Tiger bones are used in traditional Chinese medicine and tiger fur is used for decoration. The animal is vulnerable to poaching and habitat loss ...
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; Four Perils; Four Symbols, also called Sixiang, four legendary animals that represent the points of the compass.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Individual animals in China (1 C, 15 P) ... Pages in category "Fauna of China" The following 30 pages are in this category ...
The origin of the Chinese Zodiac is laid out in a mythological story. It is said that the Jade Emperor organized a race and invited all the world's creatures to participate.
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is the national animal of China. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in China. There are 495 mammal species in China, of which thirteen are critically endangered, twenty-four are endangered, forty-seven are vulnerable, and seven are near threatened. One of the species listed for China can no ...
Chinese New Year animals. Twelve animal symbols comprise the Chinese zodiac. Here are the animals and which birth years they are associated with: Rat: 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 ...
China hardiness map, giving some indication of the ecological zone diversity of modern China. Over the past, global climatic change has wrought many changes over the centuries and millennia. This is a list of Chinese terrestrial ungulates, including both extinct and extant types.
In Chinese mythology and culture, the tiger is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. In Chinese art, the tiger is depicted as an earth symbol and equal rival of the Chinese dragon – the two representing matter and spirit respectively. The Southern Chinese martial art Hung Ga is based on the