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The Water Lizard Dragon is eventually subdued and taken away by his cousin, Crown Prince Mo'ang. The Immortal of Tiger Power ( 虎力大仙 ), Immortal of Elk Power ( 鹿力大仙 ), and Immortal of Antelope Power ( 羊力大仙 ) are three yaoguai who disguise themselves as magicians to deceive the ruler of the Kingdom of Chechi ( 車遲國 ...
Consort Xiao, Pure Consort Xiao or Xiao Shufei (蕭淑妃, personal name unknown) (died c.November 655), [1] was a concubine of Emperor Gaozong of Tang (Li Zhi). She was initially favored by him and bore him a son and two daughters—Li Sujie and the Princesses Yiyang and Gao'an—but later, after her romantic rival Empress Wang introduced another concubine, Consort Wu (later known as Wu ...
In the novel Journey to the West, Xiaotian Quan helps Erlang fight Sun Wukong, preventing him from escaping by biting him in the leg. Later in Chapter 63, Sun Wukong, Erlang, and their companions battle against the Nine-Headed Beast (九頭蟲) or the Nine-Headed Prince Consort (九頭駙馬) when the dog defeats the enemy by biting off one of ...
Cao made her acting debut in My World is Beautiful, Because of You (2000), playing a secretary. Cao's first film role was uncredited appearance in the film Pearl Gown (2002).
The gods from Fengshen Yanyi had an influence on Journey to the West, as many names of gods and Buddhas from the novel also appear in Journey to the West. [3] This list also reflects the intensification of god-making (zao shen, 造神) during the Yuan-Ming period.
It was written by Xiao Zixian during the succeeding Liang Dynasty. This book was the only one of the Twenty-Four Histories to be authored by a member of the chronicled dynasty's ruling house – Xiao Zixian was a grandson of Emperor Gao, founder of Southern Qi, When first submitted to Emperor Wu of Liang, the book was known simply as the Book ...
The Pillow Book (simplified Chinese: 三生三世枕上书; traditional Chinese: 三生三世枕上書; pinyin: Sānshēng Sānshì Zhěnshàng Shū), written by Tang Qi Gong Zi, is the second book in the Three Lives, Three Worlds series. This Chinese novel consists of two books, and the first volume was initially published in 2012 by the Hunan ...
Sherwood Smith uses this name for a new Wicked Witch of the West in her 2005 book The Emerald Wand of Oz. Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch (given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.