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Trees with precious stones, instead of fruit
Among the striking plants, which tell drevnekitayskie legends allocated trees, the fruits were jewels. They grew up on Mount Kunlun, where the residence was povelitelya all the deities, spirits and people – overlord Huang Di. It grew Biryuzova, yashmovoe, pearl and black nefritovoe trees. They zreli pearls, and beautiful jasper and jade tree [...]
Wonderful trees
Objects of worship and ritual worship in China have many plants. This is particularly true for the old mighty trees: they are never cut down and even sacrificed to honor the spirits lived in them. In some areas, it was thought that a century-old trees, if cut, can potech blood. Of the large trees [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
Nyuyva and her brother Fusi
Fusi and Nyuyva like ancestors of the people are also in the more ancient myth, where they are more likely polubogami, which are relevant «a» appearance.
When the universe was just created, Nyuyva lived with his brother (means Fusi) in the Kunlun Mountains. They decided to become husband and wife, but ustydilis. Then brother led [...]
Children fleeing the flood
Nyuyva name belonged not only to the queen, but the legendary girl who, along with his brother Fusi (it also should be distinguished from the same deity) escaped death during the Flood. People of South-West China, Yao and Miao preserved for posterity a story about them. Here’s the story.
One summer, the sky was covered [...]
Nyuyva saves the world from destruction
Nyuyva then lived for a time, not knowing cares. But the ground covered the great disaster. In some places, hit the sky, and through the huge black hole prosochilsya heat, and fire wood. This failure has created, through which fled groundwater. Forgetting for the time enmity, water and fire together, to destroy people.
Goddess Nyuyva lepit people out of clay
Earth but already separated from the sky. Upwards ascended the holy mountain. On the seas flowed a river. The forests and steppes are filled with animals, and the river – fish. Birds soared above the meadows. But peace has not yet been completed: there were no people.
One ancestress Nyuyva – the goddess of snakes [...]
Pangu – creator of the world
There is another mythological legend about the creation of the world. It, as well as in the myth of Hundune world originally was a semblance of chicken eggs, but later it emerged pervopredok humanity – Pangu. When Pangu grew up, he fell asleep and slept in this huge egg eighteen thousand years. Woken up, [...]
Hundun – the embodiment of primeval chaos
Drevnekitayskoy In mythology, there is a Hundun, embodies the idea of undifferentiated chaos, the former before the Universe has found to exist. This image of the primitive egg or a bag, which enables the splitting of its earlier content nerazdelennomu take the form of an organized universe. Hundun or Chaos did not have the [...]
Yin and yang
obscheizvestnomu According to myth, in ancient times, when there was still no land or the sky, in the murky world prevailed, formless chaos. Gradually, in the gloom of having two great spirit – Yin and Yang, who was to streamline the world. Spirit Yang became managing air, the spirit of Yin – the land. [...]
Confucianism as system of China
Now it is time to return to Confucianism. At the time of its creation in the ideological system of China is clearly a crisis caused by «clumping» heaven and earth. Supreme Ruler, bringing the full power in his hands, zhrechestvo removed from real participation in issues «strategy», the status of a priest has been [...]
The myth about the war of the legendary Huang Di – Part 3
Fact that this myth is not the victim is declared totems (ritual eating of which was characterized totemizmu) and not simply referred to as a sacrificial animal (as it would be later), a «god of thunder», may have multiple causes. First: the victim transferred attribute magical properties, which will be made from it, ie, [...]
The myth about the war of the legendary Huang Di – Part 2
So army Juan de suffers a defeat for the defeat. Culminating moment comes when Huang Di, in fact do not go to services magic, put to the wall, forced to make «a bow» to opalnym own priests. «A wise man» named Feng Hou using iron statue, whose hand is always pointed at the north [...]
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