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Wen Shen (Chinese: 瘟神) is a deity or group of deities responsible for illness, plague, and disease in Chinese folk religion. In some belief systems, Wen Shen is identified as a single entity who commands wen spirits; in others, the term is used for a grouping of several distinct deities.
The Eight Immortals (Chinese: 八仙) are a group of legendary xian (immortals) in Chinese mythology. Each immortal's power can be transferred to a vessel (法器) that can bestow life or destroy evil. Together, these eight vessels are called the "Covert Eight Immortals" (暗八仙).
This article is a list of topics in Chinese mythology. Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature from the area now known as China . Chinese mythology includes many varied myths from regional and cultural traditions.
The Chinese language of mythology tends not to mark words for gender or number, so English language translations can be problematic. Also, species or even genera are not always distinguished, with the named animal often being seen as the local version of that type, such is as the case with sheep and goats, or the versatile term sometimes ...
Feng (mythology), an edible monster that resembles a two-eyed lump of meat and magically grows back as fast as it is eaten. Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology ...
(in Chinese mythology) wizard; magician; shaman; sorcerer (in popular Chinese literature) genie; elf, fairy; nymph; (xian jing (Chinese: 仙境; pinyin: Xiānjìng) is fairyland) (based on the folk etymology for the character 仙, a compound of the characters for person and mountain) sage living high in the mountains; mountain-man; hermit; recluse
Chinese constellations – Groupings used in Chinese astrology; Color in Chinese culture; Four Holy Beasts – Four sacred animals in Chinese mythology; Four Living Creatures – Class of heavenly beings; Four Mountains – Four deities, heroes or legendary mountains in Chinese mythology; Four Perils – Four malevolent beings in Chinese mythology
Chinese characters are logographs, which are graphemes that represent units of meaning in a language. Specifically, characters represent a language's morphemes, its most basic units of meaning. Morphemes in Chinese—and therefore the characters used to write them—are nearly always a single syllable in length.