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Mythical creatures - inexhaustible food source
special group of mythical creatures were animals used for human inexhaustible source of food. Most other animal is mentioned magic shizhou. It was a living creature, quite devoid of bones and limbs, who are only meat, but with a pair of young eyes. According to legend, it was not to eat meat without […]
Strange substance
Remained a lot of stories about strange animals, the appearance that affect its unnatural. They were, for example, black and red bee motylki, prevoshodivshie size of an elephant, and a flying rabbit with mouse’s head, wings which serve as the wool on his back. No less strange look like pheasant bird, which grew whiskers […]
Beautiful birds
Bytovali in China and other representations of fantastic animals.
For example, met legends about the miraculous birds (with Phoenix).
So, wonderful birds biinyao ( «birds connecting wings») were like a wild duck with red and green opereniem. Each bird was one wing, one leg and one eye. They could fly across the sky only in pairs, […]
Amazing Animals - Fox
But perhaps the most prominent place in the whole «animal» folklore were foxes. The cult of fox, fox-demon fox-monster, was unusually distributed in China. Prank foxes, «lisim charam», many stories about the intervention of foxes in the lives of people in China is devoted to literature, led by the «lisim eposom» Liao Chzhaya. Home […]
Other amazing animals
Blagogoveynogo objects of worship in China, sometimes even a cult, were also other animals, and there were quite a lot of them. Here are the most popular.
Perhaps the first among them has always been a tiger, in the representation of Chinese - the king of beasts. Tiger worshiped in the first place as the […]
Phoenix
Approximately the same as dragons are allocated among the beasts, birds allocated phoenixes (the word used to replace the Europeans Chinese name «fenhuan»). According to one description, «Front Phoenix recalls swan, from the back he is like a unicorn-tsilinya. His neck is a snake, the tail of the fish, painting a dragon, a turtle […]
Myths and legends about dragons
Of all the creatures mificherkih most popular (even fear) of the Chinese people enjoy dragons.
Hieroglyph inscription «moon» (dragon), which is a symbol depicting the animal with a long body and head, topped with horns (or tongue), found in the inscriptions on bones gadatelnyh Yin era (from the XIV century. BC. E.). There is the […]
Fantastic creatures
Of fantastical creatures who inhabited the ancient world met polulyudi-poluzveri.
The country Syaoyan lived dikari. Height, they were more Zhang (about three meters), and called them stupid giants. They were human person, and black, glittering like a varnish, a body entirely covered with long hair. The legs of the savages sgibalis in the opposite direction, […]
Countries that have inhabited the unusual growth
Far beyond the sea the country Pygmies. The highest increase in the people there were three chi (not more meters), while the smallest - just a few tsuney (no more than ten centimeters). Vozdelyvaya field dwarfs are very afraid that their shvatyat fierce white cranes. But, fortunately, in the neighboring country were zdorovennye detiny […]
People surprisingly produce offspring
Some amazing people is different in that unusual way to the light produced offspring. In one country, men and women lived in two separate groups. Men do not take wives. Women are also not needed husbands. Offspring showing them miraculously. Once they only see each other, and they just have children.
Among the population of […]
Amazing people of unknown countries - part 2
One distant inhabited People language Navyvorot. According to their languages have grown in the opposite direction - to the throat. Therefore, when they were talking among themselves, while others do not understand. There are countries People with teeth, drills, in which residents of one tooth issued mouth and reminded drill. They were svirepy.
Amazing people of unknown countries
World described in drevnekitayskih myths was, of course, is filled with beautiful and amazing creatures. According to legend, in many countries, long live the people and other creatures that had amazing properties.
For example, all residents of the country Blagorodnyh were performed humanity, love and virtue. On the inhabitants of this country told a lot […]