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Gonggong (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ ɡ ɒ ŋ /) is a Chinese water god who is depicted in Chinese mythology and folktales as having a copper human head with an iron forehead, red hair, and the body of a serpent, or sometimes the head and torso are human, with the tail of a serpent. [1] [2] He is destructive and is blamed for various cosmic catastrophes.
Chi You. Legendary weapons, arms, and armor are important motifs in Chinese mythology as well as Chinese legend, cultural symbology, and fiction. Weapons featured in Chinese mythology, legend, cultural symbology, and fiction include Guanyu's pole weapon (featured in the 14th century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms).
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 who conspired with Gonggong against Emperor Yao [4] Gun ( 鯀 ; Gǔn ; 'big fish'), [ a ] [ 7 ] whose poorly built dam released a destructive flood and whose son was Yu the Great ;
Chinese sea goddess Mazu. Emperor the Water Official (shuǐguān) Ehuang & Nuying, goddesses of the Xiang River. Gonggong, red-haired dragon with the head of a man and water god who, together with his associate Xiang Yao, is responsible for the great floods. Hebo, god of the Yellow River. Longmu, goddess of the Xijiang River in the Lingnan area.
However, in one myth, Zhurong was interested in physical power and fought against Gonggong for days in a contest to see who was stronger. [8] According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Gonggong is a descendant of Zhurong. [9] This raises suspicions that Haineijing(海內經)'s record was distorted in the Han dynasty for Chinese political ...
It is the mountain said to have supported the heavens, against which the Chinese water god Gonggong smashed his head in a fit of anger, requiring the goddess Nüwa to repair the sky. Nevertheless, once the spacer between the Earth and Sky was damaged, the land of China was permanently tilted to the southeast, causing all the rivers to flow in ...
Also in many versions of the mythology, Gun appears as a demi-god. In legends, he even discovered some of the secrets of the gods. In order to make dykes that would ward off floods, he stole Xirang (Chinese: 息壤) (self-renewing soil) from the gods. After the dykes were finished, when the water levels rose, the magical earth of the dyke also ...
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