...nding in the rain and licking her hand. She is described as a goddess from China's Mount Wushan, who is a cloud in the morning and rain in the evening. She
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...(Wade-Giles:T'ien kou; 天狗; "celestial dog") is a legendary creature from China.
...ry is that the Chinese derived its name from a destructive meteor that hit China sometime in the 6th century BC.
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...t undiscovered hominid residing in the mountainous and forested regions of China's remote Hubei province.
*[http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/papers/living9.html Wildmen of China]
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==China==
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...this usage within both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan as the symbol of nation is not common. Instead, it is generally u
Historically, the dragon was the symbol of the Emperor of China. In the Zhou Dynasty, the 5-clawed dragon was assigned to the Son of Heaven
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...monster similar to the tiger, reportedly living in the Fujian Province of China.
Richard Perry, in his book "The World Of The Tiger" reiterated that China's blue tigers were called blue devils because they were so often man eaters
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'''Gin-Sung''' is a Asian type of giant hair hominid that inhabits central China. According to reports the Gin-Sung has a long and shaggy black to dark gray
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...Korean) or Lake Tianchi, within the Changbai Mountains of Jilin Province, China, not far from the North Korean border.
...ted in the north-eastern Jilin province near the border of North Korea, in China. The lake is 1,243 feet deep and has had some volcanic activity in the last
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Appearance and legends are similar as for the Wildman of China; it is described as being approximately six feet tall and completely covere
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...Girl's Tabletop Mountain, Lutemute Mountain and Jade Mountain in Southern China.
...e Hooded Pitohui of New Guinea has poisonous feathers. A recent article in China has been published bringing up the question if the Zhen bird could have rea
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...jpg|thumb|right|250px|''Xian'' riding dragons, from ''Myths and Legends of China'', 1922, E.T.C. Werner.]]
*Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E. J. Brill.
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The Jinmenju grows in remote mountain valleys in China. The jinmenju's fruit appear to be human heads. The faces are always smilin
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...with the mythological yellow dragon that is associated with the Emperor of China.
==In China==
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* Xing Tian has appeared through China's recent online gaming boom as a monster the player must defeat. In ''Shura
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In China, the same entity is called '''Batsu''' (魃).
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* Mackenzie, Donald A. 1923. Myths of China and Japan. Gresham.
* Visser, Marinus Willern de. 1913. The Dragon in China and Japan. J. Müller.
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...-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fenghuang sculpture, Nanning city, Guangxi, China.]]
...re-historic bird, similar to an ostrich, which were common in pre-historic China.
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'''Liou Seng-Sen''' and '''Liou Tang-Sen''' were conjoined twins born in China and sideshow performers.
...heir father. Their exhibition career began at an early age in their native China. At age six they were shown at a fair in Hangzhou and were later taken to S
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*A somewhat more unfriendly race called grindylows appears in The Scar by China Miéville.
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...n that sun, moon, and stars move towards the northwest, and that rivers in China flow southeast into the Pacific Ocean.
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...ed 5th, behind the dragon, phoenix, winged horse and sea horse. In ancient China, statues of Pi Xiu were also used as tomb guardians.
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...s in the appearance of the qilin, even as seen in a single country such as China, owing to cultural differences between dynasties and regions.
In the Ming dynasty of China the Qilin is represented as an oxen-hooved animal with a [[dragon]]-like he
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==In China==
When Buddhism entered China, it encountered stiff opposition from the Confucian adherents to ancestor w
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* Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E. J. Brill.
* Groot, J.J.M. de. 1910. ''The Religious System of China'' 6. E. J. Brill.
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In the mid 1700's, babies were dying in what is now Beijing China. Wherever they struggled for life, an owl was always observed nearby. Heari
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*Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E. J. Brill.
...us_system_of_china/volume_6/groot_religious6.doc ''The Religious System of China'' 6]. E. J. Brill.
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...the Yao people (a tribe located at the lower reaches of the Chang Jiang in China) and a canine shapeshifter that married an emperor's daughter and founded a
Thousands of years ago, in the country now known as China, there lived a king named Gao Xin. One day, his wife, the queen, suddenly g
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...have occurred among a rare species of predatory feline (such as the North China Leopard) which caused the growth of a bony protrusion from the skull. Among
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Haetae sculptures in architecture was widely used in China and other Asian countries. Sculpture of this sacred animal may have differe
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...oma-inu (lion dogs), is a variation of the guardian lions ("fu dogs") from China.
When a certain emissary to China returned from one of his voyages to the court at Shuri Castle, he brought w
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...cruel tyrant Zhou Xin (紂辛 Zhòu Xīn), the last king of the Shang Dynasty in China. A nine-tailed fox spirit who served Nüwa, whom Zhou Xin had offended, ent
...een traditionally linked to taboo and sexuality. Nowadays in some areas of China, there still exist “Fox Fairy Temples” that are erected especially for
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...ularity in folklore can be traced to the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (712 to 756). According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong
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...d a creature called '''kutabe''', thought to be identical to the Bai Ze of China, once appeared on Mount Tateyama in Toyama Prefecture and predicted that a
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Su Kong Tai Djin was born in 1849 in a poor province of China. His parents were superstitious as were most Chinese at that time. When the
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There are numerous temples dedicated to Dragon Kings in China. One temple in Beijing was built during the Yuan Dynasty and renovated in t
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'''Wu Tou Gui''' 无头鬼- Ghost of the beheaded. In ancient China, people who committed heavy crimes were sentenced to decapitation, and thes
...try, the Chinese regard them as brutal murderers of countless commoners in China and South East Asia during World War II. The appearance of such a ghost giv
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...ay in areas of extremely high poverty and overpopulation, such as parts of China and India [http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html]. Female infants
...can partially be to blame. The illegal use of ultrasound is widespread in China, and itinerant sonographers with plain vans in parking lots offer inexpensi
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...ted Ox head existed in Buddhist writings, but when Buddhism spread through China, the folk people preferred things in symmetry. Hence he was then matched wi
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...AyGAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_ViewAPI&pgis=1 The Local Cultures of South and East China]''. E. J. Brill.
...s Willern de. 1913. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/GR830xD7xV8/# ''The Dragon in China and Japan'']. J. Müller.
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Apsarases are often depicted in Buddhist art as far afield as Cambodia and China, however. They are a common motif in the decorations of the Angkor temples.
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.../religious_system_of_china/religious_system.html ''The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect, Manners, Customs
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...]] by Kyokutei Bakin. The kojin are creatures thought to live in the South China Sea, which resemble [[ningyo]], are always weaving at their looms, and whos
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In ancient China, the tortoise and the snake were thought to be spiritual creatures symbolis
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...y white snake.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Image from the Summer Palace, Beijing, China, depicting the legend]]
...se TV series, is the most accepted, popular and thought classic edition in China Mainland. It starred Angie Chiu, Cecilia Yip and Maggie Chen (陈美琪). L
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...ls of a very similar animal, the Elasmotherium, have been found in Eastern China and Southern Russia. Although Elasmotherium is thought to have died out in
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*De Groot, Jan Jakob Maria. 1892-1910. ''The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect, Manners, Customs
*Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China.'' E. J. Brill.
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...re is a rabbit on the moon appears in the Warring States period in ancient China. The Chu Ci, a Western Han anthology of Chinese poems from the Warring Stat
...d in the Konjaku Monogatarishu, a Japanese collection of tales from India, China, and Japan. In this version, however, the rabbit's friends are a fox and a
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* Visser, Marinus Willern de. 1913. ''The Dragon in China and Japan''. J. Müller.
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* Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E.J. Brill.
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- Jan Jakob Maria Groot, ''The Religious System of China''
* Groot, Jan Jakob Maria. ''The Religious System of China, Volume II''.
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