By Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner
Compiled from historical and scattered texts and according to revelatory new learn, Handbook of chinese language Mythology is the main finished English-language paintings at the topic ever written from an completely chinese language perspective.
This paintings makes a speciality of the Han chinese language humans yet levels around the complete ethnic spectrum of historic and glossy China, exhibiting how key myths continued and advanced through the years. a brief reference part covers all significant deities, spirits, and demigods, in addition to very important locations (Kunlun Mountain), legendary animals and vegetation (the crow with 3 toes; Fusang tree), and appurtenances (Xirang—a form of legendary soil; Bu Si Yao—mythical drugs for lengthy life). No different paintings captures so good what chinese language mythology skill to the folk who lived and proceed to reside their lives via it.
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Yet in 1993, the local government was planning to reconstruct the Nüwa temple because the government Introduction now believes that the worship of human ancestors (Fuxi and Nüwa) can be a cultural resource and can attract tourists and donations. This has encouraged folk beliefs and caused a folk-culture revival. During the lunar cycle from February 2 to March 3, a festival now is held at the Renzu Temple complex to celebrate Fuxi’s birthday. The festival draws tens of thousands of pilgrims daily from nearby villages, counties, and provinces.
Myths in Other Ethnic Groups The Richness of Myth in China’s Ethnic Minorities Many Western readers think China is a single-ethnic country and that Chinese mythology is equally unified, integrated, and homogenous. In addition, because the Han people make up the majority of the population in China, when some Western scholars introduce Chinese myths they usually discuss only the myths of the Han people. But in fact, China has 56 ethnic groups including the Han. Since China boasts many ethnic groups, and almost every ethnic group has its own body of myths, myths spread in the modern geographic boundaries of China are rich not only in amount but also in types, themes, and motifs.
Among his knowledge about Yi epics, the Hnewo epic tradition is significant. Hnewo can be chanted at weddings, funerals, and during soul-sending ceremonies in the specific narrative form of kenre. It has two forms, female and male. The male parts are all about heaven, and the female parts are all about the earth. There are twelve acts in the female part, which are used especially in wedding ceremonies. There are seven acts in the male part, generally used in funerals and in ceremonies one or two years after a funeral to send the ghost away to the ancestors.
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