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The character nü (Chinese: 女; lit. 'female') is a common prefix on the names of goddesses. The proper name is wa, also read as gua (Chinese: 媧). The Chinese character is unique to this name. Birrell translates it as 'lovely', but notes that it "could be construed as 'frog ' ", which is consistent with her aquatic myth. [7] In Chinese, the word for 'whirlpool' is wo (Chinese: 渦), which ...
Yaoguai (Chinese : 妖怪; pinyin : yāoguài) are a class of creatures in Chinese mythology, folk tales, and literature that are defined by their supernatural (or preternatural) abilities [ 1 ][ 2 ] and by being strange, uncanny or weird. [ 1 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] A popular translation for them in Western texts is simply "demon", [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] but ...
Women in Chinese mythology. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Characters in Chinese mythology. It includes Characters in Chinese mythology that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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. Fuxi was counted as the first ...
Chinese mythology holds that the Jade Emperor was charged with running of the three realms: heaven, hell, and the realm of the living. The Jade Emperor adjudicated and meted out rewards and remedies to saints, the living, and the deceased according to a merit system loosely called the Jade Principles Golden Script (玉律金篇, Yù lǜ jīn piān
Magu (Chinese: 麻姑; pinyin: Mágū; Wade–Giles: Ma-ku; lit. 'Hemp Maiden') is a legendary Taoist xian (仙; 'immortal', ' transcendent') associated with the elixir of life, and a symbolic protector of women in Chinese mythology. Stories in Chinese literature describe Magu as a beautiful young woman with long birdlike fingernails, while ...
Traditionally, xian refers to entities who have attained immortality and supernatural or magical abilities later in life, with a connection to the heavenly realms inaccessible to mortals. This is often achieved through spiritual self-cultivation, alchemy, or worship by others. [2] This is different from the gods in Chinese mythology and Taoism ...
Yunü (Chinese : 玉女; pinyin : Yùnǚ; lit. 'Jade Girl', 'Jade Maiden') is a Daoist deity or goddess in Chinese mythology and Chinese traditional religion who, along with her male counterpart Jintong "Golden Boy", are favored servants of the Jade Emperor and Zhenwudadi.