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Some birds are associated with other mythological content. A three-legged bird or birds are a solar motif. Sometimes depicted as a Three-legged crow. The Qingniao is associated with the Queen Mother of the West, bearing her messages or bringing her food. [3] [4] Some birds feature as part of visions of the mythological geography of China.
Bifang, a crane-like bird with only one foot that is accompanied by strange fires [2] Bixi, a dragon with the shell of a turtle. Birds in Chinese mythology; Black Tortoise, a turtle that represents the cardinal point North and Winter. The Black Tortoise. Bo beast,a horse-like beast with one horn that eats tigers and leopards. [3] Bovidae in ...
Pages in category "Mythological and legendary Chinese birds" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fenghuang are mythological birds featuring in traditions throughout the Sinosphere. Fenghuang are understood to reign over all other birds: males and females were originally termed feng and huang respectively, but a gender distinction is typically no longer made, and fenghuang are generally considered a feminine entity to be paired with the traditionally masculine Chinese dragon.
Zhenniao (Chinese: 鴆鳥; pinyin: zhènniǎo; lit. 'poison-feather bird'), often simply zhen, is a name given in many Chinese myths, annals, and poetry to poisonous birds that are said to have existed in what is now southern China.
The three-legged (or tripedal) crow is a mythological creature in various mythologies and arts of East Asia. It is believed to inhabit and represent the Sun. Evidence of the earliest bird-Sun motif or totemic articles excavated around 5000 BCE at China. This bird-Sun totem heritage was observed in later Yangshao and Longshan cultures. [1]
Various birds are found in Chinese mythology, some of them obviously based on real birds, other ones obviously not, and some in-between. The Crane is an example of a real type of bird with mythological enhancements. Cranes are linked with immortality, and may be transformed xian immortals, or ferry an immortal upon their back. Early depictions ...
Along with Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology forms an important part of Chinese folk religion (Yang et al 2005, 4). Many stories regarding characters and events of the distant past have a double tradition: ones which present a more historicized or euhemerized version and ones which presents a more mythological version (Yang et al 2005, 12–13).