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The story is loosely based on a short story in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. It was a huge success in Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan and sparked a trend of folklore ghost films in the HK film industry. The movie won many awards. [37] [38] Ten years later, A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation was based on the
The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...
The Legend of the White Snake is a Chinese legend centered around a romance between a man named Xu Xian and a female snake spirit named Bai Suzhen.It is counted as one of China's Four Great Folktales, the others being Lady Meng Jiang, Butterfly Lovers, and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
The Gate of the Ghosts [2] (simplified Chinese: 鬼门关; traditional Chinese: 鬼門關; pinyin: Guǐmén guān), or Devil's Gate, [3] Demon Gate, [4] known as Guimen guan in Chinese, [5] is a pass in the Underworld in Chinese mythology. [6] The gate is a pailou [7] with the words "Gate of the Ghosts" written on the horizontal plaque. [8]
Originally titled "Qiao Zhong Guai" (荞中怪), the story was first published in Pu Songling's 18th-century anthology Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.Allan Barr writes that it was probably part of the opening volume of ghost stories (c. 1670s–1683) in the original eight-volume incarnation of Strange Tales; like the other early ghost stories as "Biting a Ghost" and "Wild Dog", "The ...
Chinese folklore unfolds the story of a Ch'an Chu (toad) is saved by Liu Hai, who is a courtier in ancient Chinese period. For recompense the gratitude to Liu Hai, Ch' an Chu divulge the secret of eternal life and being immortal to Liu Hai. And this is the origin of Ch' an Chu as a symbol of eternal in traditional Chinese folklore culture. [5]
The influence of western vampire stories brought the blood-sucking aspect to the Chinese myth in more modern times in combination with the concept of the hungry ghost, though traditionally they feed solely on the qi of a living individual for sustenance and in order to grow more powerful.
"Scholar Gu" (Chinese: 顧生; pinyin: Gù shēng) is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. It follows the titular scholar whose eye infection apparently allows him to another world. The story was first translated into English by Herbert Giles in 1880.