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/Home/Languages/Literature/Mythology/Chinese Mythology Chinese Mythology Votes:0 Chinese Mythology Back to the World Map The Ten Suns The Moon: Heng-O The Creation: Pan-Ku Last modified September 13, 1996 by the Windows Team The source of this material is Windows to the Universe , at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). ©1995-1999, 2000 The Regents of the University of Michigan; ©2000-06 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. All Rights Reserved. Site policies and disclaimer Read More Go to Site Eight Immortals in Chinese Mythology Votes:0 Eight Immortals of Chinese Mythology [Pa Hsien] [Ba Xian] Name Description Li T'ieh-kuai LI TieGuai ???K?? "Iron-crutch Li", who always carries a crutch and a gourd; he is the emblem of the sick. Chungli Ch'uan Zhongli Quan ?? ???v Usually shown with a fan; he represents the military man Lan Ts'ai-ho LAN CaiHe ?U??M The strolling singer, either a woman or a young boy, shown with a flower-basket; patron deity of florist. Chang Kuo-lao ZHANG GuoLao ?i?G?? Said to have lived in the 7-th or early 8-th century, shown as a rule with his mule, and carrying a bamboo tube-drum with iron sticks; he is the emblem of old men. Ho Hsien-ku HE XianGu ??P?h A woman, said to have lived in the late 7-th century, shown with a lotus blossom or flower basket, and occasionally with a peach and sheng reed-organ. Read More Go to Site Encyclopedia Mythica: Chinese mythology Votes:0 Encyclopedia Mythica™ Skip to content (access key + m) or navigation (access key + n). Search (access key + s) Search for: You are here: » Home » Areas » Mythology » Asia » Chinese mythology » Introduction Chinese mythology The names of deities and places in the Chinese mythology area are transcribed according to the pinyin system of romanization. This system was officially adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979. The names according to the previously standard Wade-Giles system, which is still widely employed, are provided in each article. There is a conversion chart available from pinyin to Wade-Giles. » Browse through the list of available articles in this area. Editor: M.F. Lindemans There are currently 168 articles in this area. This section was last updated on July 04, Read More Go to Site Four Gods Heaven and Earth Votes:0 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 celestial regions...When the demons of water and fire, aided by rebel generals of her empire, set out to destroy the world, Nu Kwa waged war against them. Her campaign was successful, but not until a gigantic warrior had partly destroyed the heavens by upsetting one of its pillars and the flood had covered Read More Go to Site The Ten Chinese Suns Votes:0 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-sang. From the tree, only one sun would move off into the sky for a journey of one day, to reach the mount Yen-Tzu in the Far West. Tired of this routine, the ten suns decided to appear all together. The combined heat made the life on the Earth unbearable. To prevent the destruction of the Earth , the emperor Ya Read More Go to Site

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