The Ultimate Fight: Red Child Vs. Monkey King
The Monkey King is by far one of the most powerful figures in Chinese folklore, singlehandedly taking on entire legions of celestial generals and felling the mightiest of monsters with a single blow.
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Traditional Chinese Artistic Motifs: The Skies and Heaven Beyond
A look at traditional Chinese artistic motifs inspired by heavenly realms.
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The Phoenix of the Orient
What we know of the oriental phoenix, or fèng huáng (鳳凰), comes from...
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Mythistory’s Divine Farmer
Meet the demi-god emperor with a man’s body, an ox’s head, a transparent...
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Mythistory: Great Yu Controls the Waters
It was around 3,000 B.C.E., when a great flood plagued the Middle Kingdom...
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The Goddess of Compassion: Bodhisattva Guan Yin
This goddess of mercy can help solve any problem, but only for those who lead a life of...
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The Four-Faced Yellow Emperor of Mythistory
Was he real or a myth? Emperor and inventor, or Taoist cultivator and...
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Mythistory Makes Music
How did Chinese music begin? An ancient legend says it happened like this…
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Mighty Mom of Mythistory
Out of the myriad divinities from China’s Mythistory, who is the one goddess...
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Mythistory Begins
The Chinese tale of creation stars a selfless giant who did all he could do before...
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Dragon Kings of Mythistory
Ancient China was a land where gods and mortals lived in tandem and created a divinely...
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Ne Zha - The Most Unusual Boy in Chinese Mythology
Meet Ne Zha, the boy deity who rides wheels of fire and brandishes a magic hoop. His...
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The Emperor’s Journey to the Moon
Who was the first man on the moon? How did he get there, and how do we know it...
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The Monk Who Endured
One of Shen Yun’s earliest dance dramas tells the story of an exceptional...
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A Vanished Dream
This legend from the early Tang dynasty tells of a young scholar named Lu Sheng who...
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Splitting the Mountain
This Chinese legend begins with forbidden love between a goddess and a mortal, and ends...
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Houyi and Chang'e - the Goddess of the Moon
Legends are like the shifting sands of a desert—forever changing, hard to grasp....
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