Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Meet Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea — eldest of the four Dragon Kings, bringer of rain and ruler of a crystal undersea palace. His clashes with
Discover the Jiangshi, China’s hopping corpse-vampire — why it leaps, how it drains the living of qi, the talismans and sticky rice that stop it, and its
The Legend of the White Snake: Bai Suzhen, the serpent spirit who became a woman, married Xu Xian, flooded the Jinshan Temple and was imprisoned beneath
The full story of Zhu Bajie, the pig-demon disciple of Journey to the West — once Marshal Tian Peng of heaven, cast down for lusting after Chang’e,
The legend of Jingwei, the drowned princess reborn as a bird who carries stones to fill the ocean forever. Discover the Shanhaijing myth behind China’s
Explore the Dilong, China’s Earth Dragon that rules rivers, springs and underground waters. Learn how its sleeping body became the longmai dragon veins at
Meet the Luduan, China’s omniscient guardian beast that speaks all languages, shuns tyrants and appears only before virtuous rulers. Its legend of Genghis
Discover the Bixie, China’s evil-averting guardian beast — a winged horned chimera that swallows demons and misfortune forever. Its myth, anatomy, feng
Zhulong — the colossal primordial Torch Dragon of Chinese mythology, a thousand-li red serpent-dragon with a human face in the sunless far north, whose
The Yinglong — the great winged dragon of Chinese mythology, the most ancient and powerful of all dragons, a rain-bringer and flood-controller who served
