...ese: 伏藏龍; pinyin: Fúcánglóng), '''Futs-Lung''' or '''Futs-Long''', are the Chinese underworld dragons which guard buried treasures, both natural and man-made.
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..."spirit dragon", Japanese: 神竜 Shinryū) is a spiritual dragon from Chinese mythology that controls wind and rain.
...ng governed the wind, clouds and rain on which all agrarian life depended. Chinese people took great care to avoid offending them, for if they grew angry or f
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...f birds, while the Vermilion Bird is a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations.
* Well (Chinese: 井; pinyin: Jǐng)
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In Chinese mythology, the '''Peng''' and '''Kun''' (Chinese: 鯤; pinyin: kūn) are different forms of the same creature.
...sea, the Peng will fly to the southern sea. They travel three thousand li (Chinese miles) in one flap of their wings. They can fly for six months without rest
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...(黄龙, Yellow Dragon) (Korean: Hwang-Ryong) is a hornless dragon in Chinese mythology.
...ity is the guardian of the center and it represents the element earth, the Chinese quintessence, as well as the changing of the seasons.
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'''Zhu Rong''', also known as Chu Jong, is a God of Fire from Chinese mythology. He is regent of the southern quarter of heaven and helped in the division
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'''Yecha''' (夜叉) are nature spirits in Chinese mythology.
The Chinese term ''ye cha'' translates to ''night ghost'' but is sometimes referred to
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* Legs (Chinese: 奎; pinyin: Kuí)
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'''Gong Gong''' is a Chinese water god that takes the form of an immense black dragon attended by a nine
In Chinese mythology, Gong Gong was ashamed that he lost the fight to claim the throne of Heaven
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The '''Hsigo''' or '''Hsiao''' is a creature of Chinese folklore that resembled an owl but had a human face, the body of a monkey,
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...ity is the guardian of the center and it represents the element earth, the Chinese quintessence, as well as the changing of the seasons.
Huang Long doesn't appear in Japanese mythology: the fifth element in the Japanese elemental system is Void. So there canno
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Tibetans call this creature Dzu-Tehy. Other Chinese names include Kung-Lu and Tok.
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Chinese literature assigns this creature a variety of descriptions, but most often
One plausible theory is that the Chinese derived its name from a destructive meteor that hit China sometime in the 6
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...-xia or ba-xia) is a chimeric dragon and the Lord of the Rivers in Chinese mythology.
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...), and it represents the north and the winter season. Although its name in Chinese, Xuánwǔ, is often translated as Black Tortoise in English, it is usually
* Dipper (Chinese: 斗; pinyin: Dǒu)
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In Chinese mythology, the '''xiezhi''' is a legendary creature that act as guardian of holy plac
...symbol of justice and water, due to tits fire-eating qualities. In Chinese mythology, the xiezhi is credited with the ability to distinguish between right and w
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...s: Pai Tse), or '''hakutaku''' (白沢) in Japanese, is a fantastic beast from Chinese legend which is said to advise only kings of virtue.
* Harper, Donald (December 1985). "A Chinese Demonography of the Third Century B.C.". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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A mythical being of Chinese mythology, comparable with the western [[unicorn]]. Ki-lin personifies all that is go
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'''yāoguài''' or '''yaomo''' (妖魔) or '''yaojing''' (妖精) is a Chinese term that generally means "demon".
...lly referred to as guài (literally, "freak") or mó (literally, "demon") in Chinese. There are also yaoguai kings (mówáng) that command a number of lessor de
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...ian]] (Horse face) are two fearsome guardians of the Underworld in Chinese mythology.
In the Chinese classic novel ''Journey to the West'', at one point Horse-Face and Ox-Head
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'''Chinese dragons''' are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore, with mythic counterparts among Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese a
...inology, a dragon is yang (male) and complements a yin (female) fenghuang "Chinese phoenix".
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...mplified Chinese: 青龙; pinyin: Qīng Lóng) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations and one of the four guardian spirits of Japanese cities.
...l characteristics and origins. They have been portrayed in many historical Chinese myths and fiction, and also appear in many modern Japanese comic books and
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...e-Giles: t'ien lung; lit. "heavenly dragon") is a flying dragon in Chinese mythology
In Chinese Buddhist terminology, ''tianlong'' means either "heavenly [[Naga]]s (dragon
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...en''' or '''Poisonfeather Birds''', are poisonous birds referenced in many Chinese myths, annals and poetry.
...' (Chinese: 迴陽; pinyin: huíyáng) and the female is called ''Yin Harmony'' (Chinese: 阴氳; pinyin: yīnyūn).
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...its certain quadrumana, besides actual human beings, mountaineers alien to Chinese culture, perhaps a dying race of aborigines."
...Michael. 1990. [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/carr1990chinese.pdf "Chinese Dragon Names"], ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 13.2:87-189.
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...de-Giles: lung-ma) was a fabled winged horse with dragon scales in Chinese mythology. Seeing a longma was an omen of a legendary sage-ruler, particularly one of
The Chinese word longma combines long 龍 ''dragon'' and ma 馬 ''horse''.
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...iles: pa-she) was a mythological giant snake that ate elephant in Chinese mythology.
''The Shanhaijing'' is an ancient Chinese mytho-geography. Chapter 10, the ''Haineinan jing'' 海內南經 ''Classic
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The '''Yeren''', variously referred to as the '''Yiren''', '''Yeh Ren''', '''Chinese Wildman''', '''Wildman of Shennongjia''', '''Man-Monkey''', or '''Ren Xiong
...he local fauna, adding to its mystique. It has been connected with ancient Chinese legends of magical forest [[ogre]]s and man-like bears.
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It is often represented with the head of a Chinese dragon.
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The '''Pénghoú''' (彭侯) is a tree spirit from Chinese folklore also known as '''Hōkō''' in Japan.
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In Chinese mythology, the four '''Dragon Kings''' (龍王; pinyin: Lóng Wáng) are the divine r
...led descriptions were given of the finery of their crystal palaces. In the Chinese classical novel ''Journey to the West'', a Dragon King is one of the main c
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The Chinese characters are also a Japanese (and Chinese) word for ''orangutan'', and can also be used in Japanese to refer to someo
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'''Pixiu''' or '''Pi Yao''' (Chinese: 貔貅; pinyin: pí xiū) is a Chinese mythical hybrid creature and a protector to practitioners of Feng Shui.
Originally known as Pi Xie (辟邪; to avoid evil spirits in Chinese)
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...oguai]] with the head of a bull that appears in ''Journey to the West'', a Chinese novel was written and published anonymously by Wu Cheng'en in the 16th cent
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...iu-Tou]] (Ox head) are two fearsome guardians of the Underworld in Chinese mythology.
In the Chinese classic novel ''Journey to the West'', at one point Horse-Face and Ox-Head
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[[Image:Yatagarasu.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|Three legged bird commonly found in mythology and art.]]
In Chinese mythology, the sun is in the form of a three-legged golden crow (金烏/金乌). Acco
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...羅), also called '''Yan Wang''' is the senior king of the ten courts of the Chinese underworld. He looks into the former lives of the dead and assigns them to
The name Yanluo is a shortened Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit term "King Yama". In Korean, the same chara
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...dragon") is a dragon with a human head worshipped as a Sun God in Chinese mythology.
* Carr, Michael. 1990. ''Chinese Dragon Names", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 13.2:87-189.
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In Chinese mythology, the '''shen''' or '''chen''' (Chinese: 蜃; pinyin: shèn or chèn; Wade-Giles: shen or ch'en; literally "large c
...zes that the chen < *dyən 辰 phonetic series (using Bernhard Karlgren's Old Chinese reconstructions) split between *dyən "dragon" and *tyən "thunder". The fo
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...iai Chai, Chiai Tung''', or '''Kai Tsi''') is a mythical creature known in Chinese and other East Asian cultures.
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'''Shui-mu Niang-niang''' was a Chinese water demon whose evil doings caused yearly floods, claiming numerous lives
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'''Xing Tian''' (Chinese: 刑天; pinyin: Xíng Tiān) is a Pre-Qin Dynasty mythological headless gi
* Xing Tian was played by Nicky Wu in the TV series based on another Chinese Myth ''Jingwei tries to refill the Sea'' (精卫填海 )
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...sant with nine heads. She is a character featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel ''Investiture of the Gods''.
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The '''Shang Yang''' is a magical bird from Chinese mythology.
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'''Zhong Kui''' (Chinese: 鍾馗; pinyin: Zhōng Kuí; Japanese: '''Shōki''') is traditionally rega
...er Zhong became king of ghosts in Hell, he returned to his hometown on the Chinese New Year's Eve. To repay Du Ping's kindness, Zhong Kui gave his younger sis
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[[Image:chinese-phoenix-from-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fenghuang sculpture, Nanning cit
...鳳凰 hō-ō; Korean: 봉황 bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) are mythological Chinese birds that reign over all other birds.
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...ade-Giles: ying-lung) is a winged dragon and rain deity in ancient Chinese mythology.
应龙 (ying-lung) in Chinese means ''responsive dragon''.
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...ed kirin. Japanese art tends to depict the qilin as more deer-like than in Chinese art. Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd. is named after the animal, and the word ki
...imals, the qilin is ranked as the second most powerful creature (after the Chinese [[dragon]]), but in Japan, the kirin occupies the top spot.
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...from jade pipa, is a fictional character featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel ''Fengshen Yanyi''.
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*In 2007, Zhuo Yongsheng, a Chinese TV reporter said he had shot a 20-minute video of six unidentified creature
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...ore ignorant might easily be tempted into pronouncing it a ''Quilin'', the Chinese retelling of the universal unicorn legend. But they would be very mistaken.
[[Category:Chinese mythology]]
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...fox that lives a thousand years turns into a kumiho, like its Japanese and Chinese counterparts (the kitsune and the huli jing). It can freely transform, amon
In ''The Maiden who Discovered a Kumiho'' through a Chinese Poem (한시로 구미호를 알아낸 처녀) the kumiho was ultimately re
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...onjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. According to Sekien, it is in service of U-shi, a Chinese god of precipitation, and thus has the power to make the rain fall.
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...e legends and folklore concerning dragons, sea serpents, unicorns, and the Chinese phoenix.
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'''Jiang Shi''' (simplified Chinese: 僵尸; traditional Chinese: 僵屍 or; pinyin: jiāngshī) are reanimated corpses that hop around, k
...fluence of Western vampire stories brought the blood-sucking aspect to the Chinese myth in modern times.
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...貘, also known as "dream eaters") are spirits found in Chinese and Japanese mythology that devour dreams and nightmares.
...plush dolls may be used instead). In addition, people sometimes write the Chinese character for "baku" on pillowcases. In the Edo era, pillows with a baku d
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...ced itself by the concepts of heavenly beings found in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism.
...s cannot return to heaven), an idea that was perhaps influenced by Persian mythology. More rarely, they are shown with feathered wings. This is similar to the W
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...the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god Kui variously said to resemble a Chinese dragon, a drum, or a monkey with a human face; and for the Kuiniu wild yak
...and a demon name. The ''Discourses of Zheng''(鄭語) discusses the origins of Chinese surnames and notes that Kui was the tribal ancestor of the Mi W羋|羋 (ram
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In Chinese mythology, '''Hundun''' (渾敦) is the worthless son of the Yellow Emperor, one of t
...jing'' 神異經 "Classic of Divine Wonders" records a later variation of Hundun mythology. It describes him as a divine dog who lived on Mt. Kunlun, the mythical mou
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In Chinese mythology, '''Huli jing''' (Chinese: 狐狸精) are fox spirits that can be either good or bad.
In Chinese, ''huli'' means fox, and ''jing'',spirit. Also a modern colloquial term fo
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...simply '''Gui''' is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 (Mandarin Chinese: 魔鬼; pinyin：móguǐ) meaning "ghost", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demo
...imply means deceased spirits or souls of the dead. Nevertheless, in modern Chinese, it has evolved to refer usually to the dead spirits or ghosts of non-famil
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...a''' (Pāli यक्ष) are nature-spirits who appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology. Usually benevolent, they are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in
...kkhinī). In Buddhist countries yakṣas are known under the following names: Chinese Pinyin: 夜叉 yè chā, Japanese: Yasha (夜叉), Burmese: ba-lu)
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According to Chinese people, Asena means wolf. In Turkey many people believe that Asena should b
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...]] from ''Journey to the West'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
[[Category:Chinese mythology]]
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...iew their World War II soldiers as a symbol of honor to their country, the Chinese regard them as brutal murderers of countless commoners in China and South E
..."great grand-elder" and "second grand-elder". These two were guards of the Chinese hell whose tasks were to bring the souls of the dead to hell for sentencing
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...ad an encounter with a Ninki Nanka said it looked similar to an image of a Chinese dragon.
[[Category: African mythology]]
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'''Long Nü''' (Chinese: 龍女; pinyin: Lóngnǚ), translated as ''Dragon Daughter'' is described
A single chapter in the Complete Tale of Guan Yin and the Southern Seas (Chinese: 南海觀音全撰; pinyin: Nánhǎi Guānyīn Quánzhuàn), a sixteenth c
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The 'Ta fang hsi-yu chi' by Hsuan-tsang (a Chinese scholar who wrote about India) tells the story of Apalala. Kasyapa Buddha w
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The '''Fauna of Mirrors''' are a mythical race of creatures in Chinese mythology. They are described in the [[Book of Imaginary Beings]] by the Argentinian
...iating punishment imposed on them by Huang-Di, the Yellow Emperor of early Chinese legend. They are connected to any mirrors and reflective surfaces, sharing
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...ella"), or '''Kasa Obake''', are a type of Tsukumogami, ghosts in Japanese mythology.
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...u''' was the first living being and the creator of the universe in Chinese mythology.
...limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, -- which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babyl
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In the study of [[mythology]] and religion, the '''underworld''' is a generic term approximately equiva
===[[Akkadian mythology]]===
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...Rabbit''' , is a rabbit that lives on the moon in East Asian folklore. In Chinese folklore, it is often portrayed as a companion of the moon goddess Chang'o,
...ing States period in ancient China. The Chu Ci, a Western Han anthology of Chinese poems from the Warring States period, notes that along with a toad, there i
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In Chinese mythology, a '''Nian''' (simplified Chinese: 年兽; traditional Chinese: 年獸; pinyin: nián shòu) is a beast that lives under the sea or in the
...elebrating Chinese New Year, guo nian (simplified Chinese: 过年; traditional Chinese: 過年; pinyin: guò nián) means 'the passing of the beast'.
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...r his head. The race(s) descended from P'an Hu were often characterized by Chinese writers as monsters who combined human and dog anatomy.
[[Category: Chinese mythology]]
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In Chinese mythology, '''Jiaolong''' (simplified Chinese: 蛟龙; traditional Chinese: 蛟龍; pinyin: jiāolóng; Wade-Giles: chiao-lung) or '''jiao''' is a myt
"''Jiao'' < *''kǒg'' 蛟 is defined with more meanings than any other Chinese draconym", writes Carr (1990:126), " 'aquatic dragon', 'crocodile; alligato
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...nake, Bai She Chuan, Bai She Zhuan), is a mythical shapeshifter in Chinese mythology.
...have it, by the malicious monk). Realgar (arsenic sulfide) was believed in Chinese medicinal practices to be an antidote to all poisons and was said to drive
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While being partially mythic (the image shown is exactly like Chinese and Japanese gilded bronze phoenix statuettes) there are references to the
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'''Wani''' (鰐) is a dragon or sea monster in Japanese mythology.
Since it is written the kanji 鰐 (from Chinese e 鰐 or 鱷 "crocodile; alligator") ''wani'' is translated as "crocodile",
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...wakened to Power"), is one of the three helpers of Xuanzang in the classic Chinese novel ''Journey to the West''. He is called "Pigsy" or "Pig" in many Englis
[[Category: Chinese mythology]]
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...'Tuyul''' is a small child spirit invoked by a bomoh (shaman) in the Malay mythology of South-East Asia (notably Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore).
...the Arabs used to kill their children and bury them all around Mecca. The Chinese (Cantonese) name for the toyol is guai zai (literally "ghost child"). The c
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...akened to Purity"), is one of the three helpers of Xuanzang in the classic Chinese novel ''Journey to the West''. He is given the name Friar Sand or Sandy in
...formed him into an arhat or luohan known as the Golden-bodied Arhat (金身羅漢, Chinese: Jinshēn Luóhàn), giving him a higher level of exaltation than Zhu, who
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...ltese tigers reported have been of the South Chinese subspecies. The South Chinese tiger today is critically endangered, and the "blue" alleles may be wholly
[[Category: Chinese mythology]]
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The '''Celestial Stag''' or '''Celestial Roe''' is an undead creature from Chinese folklore that lives in mines. It is mentioned in the [[Book of Imaginary Be
...luding Willoughby-Meade, believed that Groot's translation of the original Chinese word was incorrect, or that it is a variation of another word. This has als
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'''Japanese''' dragons include diverse legendary creatures in Japanese mythology and folklore.
...indigenous tatsu from Old Japanese ta-tu, Sino-Japanese ryū or ryō 竜 from Chinese lóng 龍, nāga ナーガ from Sanskrit nāga, and doragon ドラゴン fr
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...bols. Similar to other Oriental dragons, it was strongly influenced by the Chinese dragon.
In this period, the Vietnamese dragon's image was influenced by the Chinese dragon, because of Confucianism's expansion policy. Differing from those of
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...though Elasmotherium is thought to have died out in prehistoric times, the Chinese have legends of a similar creature named the zhi, and the Evenks also talke
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...uly in Uwajima of Ehime Prefecture. Something like the dragon dancers at a Chinese New Year celebration, this ushi-oni is represented with a huge, multiple-pe
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..., but also known as jiangshi), sometimes called '''hopping corpse''' or '''Chinese vampires''' by Westerners, are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing
[[Image:Chiang-shih.jpg|thumb|Hong Kong movie Chinese vampire]]
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...rth. Pretas are often translated into English as "Hungry ghosts", from the Chinese, which in turn is derived from later Indian sources generally followed in M
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In Japanese mythology, the sibling progenitors Izanagi and Izanami gave birth to the islands and
...etic of long 龍 "dragon") is a variant Chinese character for Japanese rei < Chinese ling 靈 "rain-prayer; supernatural; spiritual" (with 2 巫 "shamans" inste
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Ghostly fires in Japan may also be called onibi (鬼火, onibi? "demon fire"). In Chinese they are called guǐ-huǒ (Pinyin) or gwäe-fo (Cantonese). Hitodama is the
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...ant''' or '''Ajdaha''' is a legendary dragon in Turkic (Tatar) and Russian mythology which is mentioned in legends about the foundation of Kazan.
...rds his *beneficial influence on humans, the White Snake is similar to the Chinese dragon. According to Idel-Ural beliefs, any snake that survives for 100 yea
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*[[Huli Jing]], demon of the Chinese Lore
*Ann Martha and Myers Dorothy ''Goddesses In World Mythology'' the book considers the fairy as a source of intelligence, creativity, art
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...also known as the '''Monkey King''', is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel ''Journey to the West'' (西遊記, Pinyin: Xīyóujì). In the
...o the Journey to the West'', 1640) - A Ming Dynasty addendum to the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West, which takes place between the end of chapter 61
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The legends in the Chinese culture originally said that the Cynocephali resided somewhere in the wild
...all the fables of the dog-headed barbarians, whether European, Arabic, or Chinese, can be found in the Alexander Romance.
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...Dragon chinois.jpg|thumb|''[[Chinese dragon]]'', colour engraving on wood, Chinese school, 19th Century]]
...nt or other reptile, with [[magic]]al or [[Spirit|spiritual]] qualities. [[Mythology|Mythological]] creatures possessing some or most of the characteristics typ
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