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In the twentieth century, thousands of Chinese riddles and similar enigmas have been collected, capitalising on the large number of homophones in Chinese. Examples of folk-riddles include: There is a small vessel filled with sauce, one vessel holding two different kinds. (Egg) Washing makes it more and more dirty; it is cleaner without washing.
Chinese finger trap used to straighten and fix a Bennett's fracture A towing sock used to pull cable through a tube. One variation on the Chinese finger trap has uses in orthopedic medicine—namely, providing even pressure to the patient's digit(s) and at the same time immobilizing the joints—and serves a similar purpose as a traction device.
The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...
In the twentieth century, thousands of riddles and similar enigmas have been collected, capitalising on the large number of homophones in Chinese. Examples of folk-riddles include: There is a small vessel filled with sauce, one vessel holding two different kinds. (Egg) Washing makes it more and more dirty; it is cleaner without washing. (Water)
During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns (traditional Chinese: 猜燈謎; simplified Chinese: 猜灯谜; pinyin: cāidēngmí). [3] [4] In ancient times, the lanterns were fairly simple, and only the emperor and noblemen had large ornate lanterns. [5]
In Zuo Zhuan, [8] [9] Shanhaijing, and Shenyijing, the Four Perils (Hanzi: 四凶; pinyin: Sì Xiōng) are defined as: . the Hundun (渾敦, 渾沌; Hùndùn; 'chaotic torrent' [b]), a yellow winged creature of chaos with six legs and no face; [10] [11]
The Shanhaijing is an ancient Chinese mytho-geography. Chapter 10, the " Haineinan jing " 海內南經 "Classic of Regions within the Seas: South" describes a legendary land where bashe lived: The Big Snake eats elephants and after three years it disgorges their bones.
Yaoguai (Chinese: 妖怪; pinyin: yāoguài) represent a broad and diverse class of ambiguous creatures in Chinese folklore and mythology defined by the possession of supernatural powers [1] [2] and by having attributes that partake of the quality of the weird, the strange or the unnatural.