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Pages in category "Chinese goddesses" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Apsara; B.
Nüwa (女媧), the patroness of earth (地皇, Dehuáng), is a goddess attributed for the creation of mankind and mending the order of the world when it was broken. Shennong ( 神農 ), "Peasant God", the patron of humanity ( 人皇 , Rénhuáng ), identified as Yandi ( 炎帝 , "Flame Deity" or "Fiery Deity"), a divine man said to have taught ...
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).
In Journey to the West, the Queen Mother of the West wants to host a peach party so she sends the Seven Fairies to the peach garden: [5] [She] told the fairy maidens, Red Jacket, Blue Jacket, White Jacket, Black Jacket, Purple Jacket, Yellow Jacket and Green Jacket to take their baskets and pick peaches in the Peach Garden.
Chinese goddesses (4 C, 62 P) Chinese gods (6 C, 181 P)- ... Pages in category "Chinese deities" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Chinese mythology (traditional Chinese: 中國神話; simplified Chinese: 中国神话; pinyin: Zhōngguó shénhuà) is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural traditions.
Pages in category "Chinese gods" The following 181 pages are in this category, out of 181 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ao Guang; Azure Dragon; B.
The Xiangshuishen or Xiang River Goddesses are goddesses (or spirits and sometimes gods) of the Xiang River in Chinese folk religion. The Xiang flowed into Dongting Lake through the ancient kingdom of Chu , whose songs in their worship have been recorded in a work attributed to Qu Yuan .