Eight Immortals of Chinese Mythology [Pa Hsien] [Ba Xian] Name Description Li T'ieh-kuai LI TieGuai §õÅK©ä "Iron-crutch Li", who always carries a crutch and a gourd; he is the emblem of the sick. Chungli Ch'uan Zhongli Quan ÄÁ Â÷Åv Usually shown with a fan; he represents the military man Lan Ts'ai-ho LAN CaiHe ÂŪö©MThe strolling singer, either a woman or a young boy, shown with a flower-basket; patron deity of florist. Chang Kuo-lao ZHANG GuoLao ±iªG¦ÑSaid to have lived in the ...

The story of the Four Gods of Heaven and Earth, the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho, is not something that was made up for Fushigi Yuugi by Watase Yuu. The myth of the Four Gods has been deeply rooted in ancient Chinese mythology. The following are exerpts from Derek Walters' "An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend: Chinese Mythology" and Donald A. Mackenzie's "Myths of China and Japan." Creation Myth "Nu Kwa, a mythical empress of China, was reputed to have become a goddess after she had passed to the ce ...

The Ten Chinese Suns The image above is a sketch based on an early stone-rubbing showing one of the ten Chinese suns crossing the heavens. Chinese people believed that there existed ten suns that appeared in turn in the sky during the Chinese ten-day week. Each day the ten suns would travel with their mother, the goddess Xi He, to the Valley of the Light in the East. There, Xi He would wash her children in the lake and put them in the branches of an enormous mulberry tree called fu-s ...