Category: Chinese Mythology

Why there exists the change of the four seasons? Why does day alternate with night? This it all because there lives a powerful Candle Dragon.

In ancient China, the twenty eight stars near the ecliptic were called "the twenty eight mansions", which were used to mark the traveling positions of the sun and the moon as wells as to detect the time and seasons. In order to make it easy for memorizing, people divided the sky ecliptic into four regions, each assigned with an animal to stand for it. They are Azure Dragon on the east, White Tiger on the west, Vermilion Bird on the south and Black Tortoise on the north. Each region contains seven mansions. The four creatures are collectively called "the Four Symbols".

"Jingwei Filling the Sea" is a Chinese mythological story.According to the ancient work Shan Hai Jing (Classic of the Mountains and Seas), the youngest and most favored daughter of the Sun God was named Nvwa (meaning "little girl"). The Sun God would go to the East Sea to direct the rising of the sun early in the morning every day and he wouldn’t return home till sunset. Nvwa eagerly hoped that her father would take her to the sun-rising place at the East Sea for a look. One day, Nvwa was rowing a small boat by herself toward the East Sea sun-rising spot. Unfortunately, a sea storm came and mountain-like waves capsized the small boat. Nvwa lost her life to the merciless sea.   

Creation of Heaven and Earth by Pangu is the creative myth that was spread in the Orient in ancient times.

The legend Chang Er Flying to the Moon is a beautiful fable of ancient China. Chang Er was the wife