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Ao Guang. Diorama at Haw Par Villa, Singapore, depicting the battle between the Eight Immortals and the forces of Ao Guang. Ao Guang (Chinese: 敖光; pinyin: Áo Guāng; or traditional Chinese: 敖廣; simplified Chinese: 敖广; pinyin: Áo Guǎng[a]) is the Dragon King of the East Sea in Chinese folklore. He featured prominently in different ...
Ryūgū-jō (竜宮城, 龍宮城, lit. "Dragon palace castle") or Ryūgū (竜宮, 龍宮, lit. "Dragon palace") is the supernatural undersea palace of Ryūjin or Dragon God in Japanese tradition. It is best known as the place in fairytale where Urashima Tarō was invited after saving a turtle, where he was entertained by the Dragon God's ...
Kilwa Kisiwani is the largest of the nine hamlets in the town of Kilwa Masoko and is also the least populated hamlet in the township with fewer than 1,000 residents. At its peak in the Middle Ages, Kilwa had over 10,000 inhabitants. Since 1981, the entire island of Kilwa Kisiwani has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with ...
2000; 2001. The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994. The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythical abode of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. [1]
East Flower Hall once had a rockery courtyard that was the location of one of the State Council's conference rooms during the Zhou Enlai era. [24] During the large scale demolition and redevelopment of Regent Palace, Wang Dongxing built a large house adjacent to both West and East Flower Halls for Paramount Leader Hua Guofeng. When Hua Guofeng ...
Tide jewels. In Japanese mythology, the two tide jewels, named hirutama/kanju (干珠, " [tide-]ebbing jewel") and mitsutama/manju (満珠, " [tide-]flowing jewel"), were magical gems that the Sea God used to control the tides. The earliest pseudo-historical texts [a] record an ancient myth that the Sea Deity (海神, Watatsumi) presented the ...
Tēⁿ Hô Hā Se-iûⁿ. The Ming treasure voyages were maritime expeditions undertaken by Ming China 's treasure fleet between 1405 and 1433. The Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of the fleet in 1403. The grand project resulted in seven far-reaching ocean voyages to the coastal territories and islands of the South China Sea and Indian ...
The Beautiful Palace East of the Sun and North of the Earth (Swedish: Det sköna Slottet östan om Solen och nordan om Jorden; German: Das schöne Schloß, östlich von der Sonne, nördlich von der Erde) is a Swedish folktale collected from Smaland by Swedish folktale collectors George Stephens and Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius.