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  2. Timeline of Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of Chinese mythology starts with P'an-Ku and ends with Yu the Great, spanning from 36,000 years before the creation of the Earth to circa 2000 BC ...

  3. Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    The next major period of textual sources for Chinese mythology dates from the start of the Qin dynasty (221 BCE), through the end of the Han dynasty (220 CE), and continuing through the end of the subsequent periods of disunity (581 CE). The surviving texts from this era often reflect evolution of the mythological substratum.

  4. Chinese creation myths - Wikipedia

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    Chinese creation myths are symbolic narratives about the origins of the universe, earth, and life. Myths in China vary from culture to culture. In Chinese mythology, the term "cosmogonic myth" or "origin myth" is more accurate than "creation myth", since very few stories involve a creator deity or divine will.

  5. List of Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Chinese gods and immortals - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese idea of the universal God is expressed in different ways. There are many names of God from the different sources of Chinese tradition. [17] The radical Chinese terms for the universal God are Tian (天) and Shangdi (上帝, "Highest Deity") or simply, Dì (帝, "Deity"). [18] [19] There is also the concept of Tàidì (太帝, "Great ...

  7. List of legendary creatures from China - Wikipedia

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    Birds in Chinese mythology; Black Tortoise, a turtle that represents the cardinal point North and Winter. The Black Tortoise. Bo beast,a horse-like beast with one horn that eats tigers and leopards. [3] Bovidae in Chinese mythology; Boyi, a sheep-like beast with nine tails and four ears and eyes on its back. A man who wears fur of boyi will ...

  8. Fuxi - Wikipedia

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    Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) [a] [1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, [2] hunting, fishing, domestication, [3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC [4] or 2000 BC.

  9. Chinese folk religion - Wikipedia

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    Stories surrounding these gods form a loose canon of Chinese mythology. By the Song dynasty (960–1279), these practices had been blended with Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist teachings to form the popular religious system which has lasted in many ways until the present day. [2]