Showing posts with label Myths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myths. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Flood Legend – Yu the Great Subdues the Flood 洪水的传说，大禹治水

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A traditional legend about a major flood can be found in almost all civilisations. Such was the destructive force of this flood that few ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Rabbit in Mythology 兔子的神话

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Rabbits have stood out in the human imagination for centuries. All across the world, wherever rabbits are found, they have become the subjec...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Hou Yi Shot Down Nine Suns 后羿射九日

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The Chinese myth of Hou Yi resembles Heracles in Greek mythology (or Hercules in Roman mythology), as both were archers who tried to shoot t...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Jingwei Fills the Sea 精卫填海

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In modern languages the word tragedy is often used loosely to mean a disaster - particularly a seemingly undeserved disaster that strikes un...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

Kua Fu Chasing the Sun 夸父追日

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As conventionally used, ‘myth’ means one of two things: (1) stories of the gods or the creation of the world, things lying wholly in the sup...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Shang People: Offspring of a Black Bird 殷商人的祖先：玄鸟

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The Shang Dynasty was, according to traditional sources, the second Chinese dynasty, after the Xia Dynasty. The decline of the Xia Empire l...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Nuwa Mends the Sky 女娲补天

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In Chinese mythology, Nuwa is a mythological character best known for making mankind and repairing the wall of heaven. She had the body of ...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Nu Wa Made Human Beings 女娲造人

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In the West, creation refers to making something from nothing. But for the Chinese, the world and human beings are never created as such. In...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Pan Gu Makes the World 盘古创造天地

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The first writer to record the Chinese myth on the creation of world by Pangu was Xu Zheng during the Three Kingdoms period, relatively late...