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#Gods & Immortals of China

63 chronicles

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Dragon King of East Sea

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

Chinese Mythology · 29 August 2026

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Jiangshi

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

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Bai Suzhen

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

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Zhu Bajie

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,

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Jingwei

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

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Dilong

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

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Luduan

Meet the Luduan, China’s omniscient guardian beast that speaks all languages, shuns tyrants and appears only before virtuous rulers. Its legend of Genghis

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Bixie

Discover the Bixie, China’s evil-averting guardian beast — a winged horned chimera that swallows demons and misfortune forever. Its myth, anatomy, feng

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Zhulong

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

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Yinglong

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

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Tianlong

The Tianlong — the celestial dragon of Chinese mythology, the most exalted and divine of the dragon-kinds, who guards the celestial palaces of the gods

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Jiaolong

The Jiaolong — the aquatic dragon (or dragon-in-the-making) of Chinese mythology, a scaled, often hornless dragon of rivers and deep waters that controls

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Huli Jing

The Huli Jing — the shape-shifting fox spirit of Chinese mythology, a magical fox that through cultivation gains the power to become a beautiful woman and

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Hundun

Hundun — the personification of primordial chaos in Chinese mythology and Daoist philosophy, the formless, faceless original state of the cosmos, and the

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Taotie

The Taotie — the gluttonous monster of Chinese mythology, a fearsome beast of insatiable greed, all jaws and staring eyes, so voracious it ate even its

Chinese Mythology · 27 August 2026

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Nian

The Nian — the monstrous New Year beast of Chinese folklore, a lion-ox creature that emerged each New Year's Eve to devour the people until driven off by

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Bai Ze

The Bai Ze — the wise, all-knowing beast of Chinese mythology, a noble horned creature that knows the names and natures of every spirit and monster in the

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Pixiu

The Pixiu — the auspicious winged lion-dragon beast of Chinese mythology with an insatiable appetite for gold it can never expel, making it the supreme

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Fenghuang

The Fenghuang — the magnificent phoenix of Chinese mythology, the supreme auspicious ruler of all birds whose dazzling five-coloured beauty heralds peace

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Qilin

The Qilin — the auspicious chimerical beast of Chinese mythology, the gentle, scaled, single-horned “Chinese unicorn” so benevolent it harms no living

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Niutou Mamian

Niutou Mamian (Ox-Head and Horse-Face) — the two fearsome guardian-officers of the Chinese underworld, brawny enforcers with the heads of an ox and a

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Heibai Wuchang

Heibai Wuchang (Black and White Impermanence) — the two psychopomp deities of the Chinese underworld, a contrasting pair of spirit-officers (white and

Chinese Mythology · 26 August 2026

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Gonggong

Gonggong — the monstrous water-god of Chinese mythology, a serpent-bodied god of floods and chaos who, enraged at his defeat, smashed his head against the

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Chiyou

Chiyou — the monstrous war-god and rebel of Chinese mythology, a bronze-headed, many-armed god of war and inventor of weapons who led an army of monsters

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Ao Guang

Ao Guang — the Dragon King of the East Sea and foremost of the Four Dragon Kings of Chinese mythology, who rules the eastern ocean from his crystal

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Long Wang

Long Wang, the Dragon Kings — the divine dragon-rulers of the waters in Chinese mythology who govern the seas, rivers, and rain from crystal palaces

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Meng Po

Meng Po (Lady Meng) — the goddess of forgetfulness in the Chinese underworld, the old woman at the Bridge of Forgetfulness who gives each soul a bowl of

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Yanluo

Yanluo (King Yama) — the god and supreme judge of the Chinese underworld (Diyu), the Chinese form of the Buddhist death-god Yama, who judges the souls of

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Zhong Kui

Zhong Kui — the great demon-queller and ghost-catcher of Chinese mythology, a fearsome bearded scholar wronged of his honour and dead by suicide, made

Chinese Mythology · 25 August 2026

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Zao Jun

Zao Jun — the household Kitchen God of Chinese religion, who dwells above the stove, watches over the family all year, and ascends to Heaven each New Year

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Caishen

Caishen — the great god of wealth, prosperity, and good fortune in Chinese religion, who brings riches and success in business, worshipped with special

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Eight Immortals

The Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) — the beloved group of eight legendary immortals of Chinese Daoism, saints from every walk of life who attained immortality

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Lu Dongbin

Lü Dongbin — the most famous of the Eight Immortals of Daoism, a scholar-turned-immortal, swordsman, healer, and demon-slayer who attained the Dao after

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Erlang Shen

Erlang Shen — the great three-eyed warrior-god and demon-queller of Chinese mythology, a mighty celestial general with a truth-seeing third eye and a

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Nezha

Nezha — the rebellious child-god and protector of Chinese mythology, a powerful divine boy-warrior who killed the dragon-prince, sacrificed his own body

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Guan Yu

Guan Yu (Guandi) — the deified general of Chinese history and religion, the red-faced, long-bearded warrior of the Three Kingdoms renowned for loyalty and

Chinese Mythology · 24 August 2026

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Mazu

Mazu — the great goddess of the sea and protectress of sailors in southern Chinese religion, the deified spirit of Lin Moniang who saved seafarers from

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Hou Yi

Hou Yi — the great divine archer of Chinese mythology who saved the world by shooting down nine of the ten suns scorching the earth, leaving one to give

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Chang'e

Chang'e — the beloved goddess of the Moon in Chinese mythology, the beautiful immortal wife of the archer Hou Yi who swallowed the elixir of immortality

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Three Pure Ones

The Three Pure Ones (Sanqing) — the supreme triad of deities at the summit of the Daoist pantheon, the three highest gods (including the deified Laozi)

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Shennong

Shennong (the Divine Farmer, Yandi) — the great culture-hero and god of agriculture and medicine in Chinese mythology, the ox-headed sovereign who gave

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Yellow Emperor

The Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) — the great culture-hero and legendary ancestor of the Chinese people, who founded civilisation, defeated the war-god Chiyou

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Pangu

Pangu — the primordial giant and creator of the cosmos in Chinese mythology, who hatched from the cosmic egg, separated Heaven from Earth, and whose body

Chinese Mythology · 23 August 2026

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Xi Wangmu

Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West — the great Chinese goddess of immortality who dwells on Mount Kunlun and tends the Peaches of Immortality that

Chinese Mythology · 22 August 2026

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Fuxi

Fuxi — the great culture-hero and progenitor-god of Chinese civilisation, the serpent-bodied sovereign and consort of Nüwa who gave humankind hunting,

Chinese Mythology · 22 August 2026

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Nuwa

Nüwa — the great mother-goddess and creator of humankind in Chinese mythology, a serpent-bodied goddess who fashioned the first humans from yellow clay

Chinese Mythology · 22 August 2026

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Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong, the Monkey King — the most famous hero of Chinese literature, the immortal shape-shifting trickster-monkey of Journey to the West, master of

Chinese Mythology · 22 August 2026

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Guanyin

Guanyin — the beloved goddess (bodhisattva) of mercy and compassion in Chinese Buddhism, the Chinese form of Avalokiteshvara who hears the cries of all

Chinese Mythology · 22 August 2026

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Jade Emperor

The Jade Emperor (Yu Huang) — the supreme ruler of Heaven in Chinese mythology and Daoism, governing Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld and the vast

Chinese Mythology · 22 August 2026

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Doumu

Doumu — the great mother-goddess of the stars in Chinese Daoism, the “Mother of the Big Dipper,” a many-armed celestial goddess who governs the Dipper