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Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
Legendary rulers and culture heroes of prehistoric China, sometimes given regnal dates in the 3rd millennium BC
Chinese mythology
mythology
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
1766 short story collection by Pu Songling
Four Symbols
Mythological creatures in Chinese constellations
South-pointing chariot
ancient Chinese two-wheeled vehicle
Red String of Fate
East Asian (Japanese) Mythological Belief.
Five Cereals
group of five farmed crops, important in ancient China, whose cultivation was regarded as a sacred boon from a mythological or supernatural source
Chinese creation myth
narratives about the origins of the world from Chinese folklore
In Search of the Supernatural
4th-century CE Chinese compilation of legends and stories
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
literary work
Great Flood
major flood in ancient Chinese legends during the reign of Emperor Yao
fuji
Divination through writing on sand with winnowing tray and chopstick or later a Y-shaped stylus stick, similar to planchette writing
Battle of Zhuolu
battle
Ye Xian
Chinese fairy tale
Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations
collection compiled by Ji Yun
Shi Yi Ji
4th century Chinese mythological / historical treatise compiled by Wang Jia
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountain
Chinese parable
Money tree
Chinese myth
Bowuzhi
thumb|250px|page=9|The pages of a printed edition of Bowuzhi Bowuzhi () by Zhang Hua (c. 290 CE) was a compendium of Chinese stories about natural wonders and marvelous phenomena. It quotes from many early Chinese classics, and diversely includes subject matter from Chinese mythology, history, geography, and folklore. The Bowuzhi, which is one of the first works in the literary genre of zhiguai "tales of anomalies; supernatural stories", records the earliest versions of several myths, such as the white yenü "wild women" living south of China in a society without men. Scholars have described th
Xirang
Xirang () was a magical soil in Chinese mythology with the ability to self-expand and grow continuously. Its properties made it particularly effective for use by Gun and Yu the Great in fighting the rising waters of the Great Flood.
Yan Huang Zisun
denonym of the Han Chinese
Jiuli
ancient tribe of China
Cihang Zhenren
Taoist deity
Ulkāmukha Pretarāja
Buddhist deity
Niaoke Daolin
tang dynasty Chan Buddhist monk