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Mythological Chinese rivers are an important motif in Chinese mythology, forming part of a mythological geography. Among mythological Chinese rivers are: Weak River or Weak Water: a river or body of such low specific gravity that no one can swim nor anything float, not even a feather; Red River or Red Water: one of the colored rivers flowing ...
Magpie Bridge (Queqiao), crossing the Silver River , one of the famous mythological locations of Chinese mythology, in a mural decorating the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace, in Beijing. Chinese mythological geography refers to the related mythological concepts of geography and cosmology , in the context of the geographic area now known as ...
Diyu (traditional Chinese: 地獄; simplified Chinese: 地狱; pinyin: dìyù; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka, traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife, and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these two traditions.
Chinese mythology (traditional Chinese: 中國神話; simplified Chinese: 中国神话; pinyin: Zhōngguó shénhuà) is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural traditions.
Juling Shen (simplified Chinese: 巨灵神; traditional Chinese: 巨靈神; pinyin: Jù Líng Shén; lit. 'god of giant spirit') is a gigantic river god in Chinese mythology. He is usually associated with the Yellow River.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Rivers in Norse mythology (8 P) R. Rigvedic rivers (1 C, ... List of mythological Chinese rivers; M. River Malvam; Moving ...
Hebo (Chinese: 河伯; lit. 'Lord of the River'), also known as Bingyi (冰夷), [1] is the god of the Yellow River (Huang He). The Yellow River is the main river of northern China, one of the world's major rivers and a river of great cultural importance in China. This is reflected in Chinese mythology by the tales surrounding the deity Hebo.
Chinese mythology and imagination developed an extensive collection of ideas related to a mythical geography. Put together, these could form a picture of an exotic land usually thought to be located somewhere "in the west". Sometimes, as the areas to the west were charted, real geographical features would be named for mythological ones.