A Tale of Nezha
About 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty (商朝), there was a military commander named Li Jin (李靖). Li Jing…
Mythical Creatures in Classics of Mountains and Seas
Classics of Mountains and Seas (山海经) is a collection of Chinese mythology, geography and medicine compiled about 3,000 to 2,500…
The Ghost Month in Chinese Mythology
Ghost Month Ghost parade – ink painting by Gong Kai, a 13th-century artist. August 1, 2019, is the first day…
Zhong Kui, A Chinese Ghostbuster
August 1 is the first day of lunar July in 2019 and lunar July is viewed as the ghost month…
Eight Daoist Immortals
Eight Daoist immortals – ink painting by a contemporary Chinese artist Historically, the Eight Immortals could refer to 8 different…
Nuwa and Fuxi in Chinese Mythology
According to Chinese mythology, Chinese people were created by Nuwa, while her male counterpart Fuxi created Chinese culture hence transformed…
Portraits of Stars and Planets
In Chinese mythology, most beings in the celestial worlds more or less look like humans. The difference between the bodies…
The Great Flood in China 4,000 Years Ago
This more than 3,000-year-old bronze vessel, recovered in 2002 from an antique market, has 98 Chinese characters on the botton…
A Taoist Temple in the Middle of a River
The 9th Fairy’s Platform (九仙女台), a Daoist temple, was initially built during the Tang Dynasty in the middle of a…
Chinese Tale of the Moon Day
As Chinese legend goes, a long long time ago right here on this planet, ten suns suddenly appeared in the…
Qixi, A Forbidden Love between Two Stars
The love story between the stars of Altair and Vega located on the two sides of the Milky Way is…
An Ancient Chinese Tale of Relativity in Time
A woodcutter watched two men playing chess Weiqi in a mountain. But once the game was over and he arrived…
A Trip to A World Beyond
The mythical tale about encountering immortals in Mt. Tiantai indicates that the Chinese entertained the concept of relativity in time…
A Love Story of Butterflies
A love story about a pair of white butterflies is one of the most enduring Chinese legends that has been…
The Love Story of a White Snake
According to Stories to Caution the World (警世通言) by Ming dynasty writer Feng Menglong (1574 - 1646), it was at…