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Western name Proper name Western constellation Comments 軍南門 Jūn Nán Mén: Southern Military Gate Phi Andromedae [22] Andromeda: A single-star asterism within the Legs mansion. 玄戈 Xuán Gē: Sombre Halberd Lambda Boötis [23] Xuange Boötes: A single-star asterism within the Purple Forbidden enclosure. Xuán Gē became the official name.
Hyperion, Titan of light; sometimes conflated with his son Helios; Lampetia, goddess of light, and one of the Heliades or daughters of Helios , god of the Sun, and of the nymph Neera . Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
The festival is derived from Chinese mythology: people celebrate the romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang, [5] [2] [4] who were the weaver girl and the cowherd, respectively. The tale of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han dynasty . [ 6 ]
From the popular to the rare, we’ve rounded up a long list of Chinese baby names: 90 traditionally boy names, 90 traditionally girl names and 20 that are considered unisex, for a total of 200 ...
When choosing a Chinese baby girl name, take into consideration family connections, any special significance the name has to you, and of course the meaning behind the name. Here are 110 from which ...
Flower of Light Sect (燈花教) Golden Flag Sect (金幢教) Community for the Study of the Way and its Virtue (道德学社) Great Way of Maitreya (弥勒大道) Life Healing Sect (救世教), also known by its corporate name Community of the Awakening to the Goodness (悟善社) Way of the True Emptiness (真空道)
The Qiao sisters are featured as characters in the 14th-century historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. In the novel, the Chinese character for "Qiao" in their names, 橋/桥, is replaced with 喬/乔.
Yue Lao (Chinese: 月下老人; pinyin: Yuè Xià Lǎorén; lit. 'old man under the moon') is a god of marriage and love in Chinese mythology. [1] He appears as an old man under the moon. Yue Lao appears at night and "unites with a silken cord all predestined couples, after which nothing can prevent their union."