“fenghuang”
(mythological birds of ‘east asia’)
(the rulers of all other ‘birds’)
(males are “feng” / females are “huang”)
(‘chinese mythology’ refers to those myths found in the ‘historical geographic area’ of ‘china’)
(these include myths in ‘chinese’ and other languages, as transmitted by ‘han chinese’ as well as other ‘ethnic groups’ (of which 56 are officially recognized by the current administration of ‘china’)
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(‘chinese mythology’ includes ‘creation myths’ + ‘legends’’)
(such as ‘myths’ concerning the founding of ‘chinese culture’ + the ‘chinese state’)
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(as in many ‘cultures’ mythologies’, ‘chinese mythology’ has in the past been believed to be, at least in part, a ‘factual recording’ of ‘history’)
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(thus, in the study of ‘historical chinese culture’, many of the stories that have been told regarding ‘characters’ + ‘events’ which have been ‘written’ or ‘told’ of the ‘distant past’ have a ‘double tradition’…)
(one which presents a more ‘historicized’ verision)
(one which presents a more ‘mythological’ version)
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(the dozens of ‘ethnic minority groups’ of the country of ‘china’ have their own ‘languages’ and their own ‘folklore’, and many have their own ‘writing’…)
(…much of which contains valuable ‘historical’ + ‘cultural’ information as well as many unique ‘myths’)
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(some myths are widely shared across multiple ‘ethnic groups’, but may exist as versions with some differences)
(historians have ‘written evidence’ of ‘chinese mythological symbolism’ from the ‘12th century BCE’ in the ‘oracle bone script’)
(legends were passed down for over ‘1000 years’ before being written in books such as classic of mountains + seas)
(other ‘myths’ continued to be passed down through ‘oral traditions’ (such as ‘theate’r + ‘song’) before being recorded as ‘novels’ such as epic of darkness)
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(‘imperial historical documents’ + ‘philosophical canons’ all contain ‘chinese myths’, such as… )
*book of rites*
*records of the grand historian*
*book of documents*
lüshi chunqiu
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥