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Qianliyan
Qianliyan is a Chinese folk religion, Chinese sea god, sea and door god. He usually appears with Shunfeng'er as a guardian of the list of Mazu temples, temples of the sea goddess Mazu (goddess), Mazu. Name The name "Qianliyan" literally means "He of the Thousand-li (unit), Mile" or "League Eyes" but may be taken more generally as "Hawkeye", "Lynx-Eyed",. "Far-Seeing", or even "Omniscience, All-Seeing" or "Clairvoyant". as a distance of 1,000 li (unit), li was idiomatic in Chinese for any great distance. It also appears as . and His partner Shunfeng'er's name similarly means "Sharp-Eared" or "All-Hearing". Under the Ming dynasty, Ming, Qianliyan was also known as LiLou. History Qianliyan is first attested in the early-16th century Four Classic Novels, novel ''Journey to the West'', where he appears as the personification, personified form of the Taoism in China, Taoist Jade Emperor's eyes and one of his lieutenants. There is, however, an earlier depiction of him in the caves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunfeng'er
Shunfeng'er is a Chinese folk religion, Chinese sea god, sea and door god. He usually appears with Qianliyan as a guardian of the list of Mazu temples, temples of the sea goddess Mazu (goddess), Mazu. Name The name "Shunfeng'er" literally means "Wind Accompanying Ears" in reference to his ability to hear any sound carried upon the wind. The unusual idiom is translated variously as "Ears that Hear with the Wind", "Ears that Hear what Comes on the Wind", "Ears that Hear the Sounds Taken with the Wind", "Wind-Accompanying Ears", "Downwind Ears", or even "Sharp Ears", "Far-Hearing", or "Omniscience, All-Hearing". The god's role in helping sailors distinguish favorable winds also prompts the translations "Fair-Wind Ears" and "Favorable-Wind Ears". It also appears as . and His partner Qianliyan's name similarly means "Sharp-Eyed" or "All-Seeing". Under the Ming dynasty, Ming, Shunfeng'er was also known as ShiKuang. He is also sometimes known as Wanli'er, which has similar meaning, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Moniang
Mazu or Matsu is a sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. She is also known by several other names and titles. Mazu is the deified form of Lin Moniang (), a shamaness from Fujian who is said to have lived in the late 10th century. After her death, she became revered as a tutelary deity of Chinese seafarers, including fishermen and sailors. Her worship spread throughout China's coastal regions and overseas Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia, where some Mazuist temples are affiliated with famous Taiwanese temples. Mazu was traditionally thought to roam the seas, protecting her believers through miraculous interventions. She is now generally regarded by her believers as a powerful and benevolent Queen of Heaven. Mazu worship is popular in Taiwan because many early Chinese settlers in Taiwan were Hoklo people from Fujian. Her temple festival is a major event in Taiwan, with the largest celebrations occurring in and arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazu (goddess)
Mazu or Matsu is a sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. She is also known by several other names and titles. Mazu is the deified form of Lin Moniang (), a shamaness from Fujian who is said to have lived in the late 10th century. After her death, she became revered as a tutelary deity of Chinese seafarers, including fishermen and sailors. Her worship spread throughout China's coastal regions and overseas Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia, where some Mazuist temples are affiliated with famous Taiwanese temples. Mazu was traditionally thought to roam the seas, protecting her believers through miraculous interventions. She is now generally regarded by her believers as a powerful and benevolent Queen of Heaven. Mazu worship is popular in Taiwan because many early Chinese settlers in Taiwan were Hoklo people from Fujian. Her temple festival is a major event in Taiwan, with the largest celebrations occurring in and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Door God
''Menshen'', or door gods, are divine guardians of doors and gates in Chinese folk religions, used to protect against evil influences or to encourage the entrance of positive ones. They began as the divine pair Shenshu () and Yulü () under the Han, but the deified generals Qin Shubao () and Yuchi Gong () have been more popular since the Tang. In cases where a door god is affixed to a single door, Wei Zheng or Zhong Kui is commonly used. History The gates and doors of Chinese houses have long received special ritual attention. Sacrifices to a door spirit are recorded as early as the ''Book of Rites''.. By the Han, this spirit had become the two gods Shenshu and Yulü, whose names or images were painted into peachwood and attached to doors. When the Emperor Taizong of the Tang was being plagued by nightmares, he ordered portraits of his generals Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong to be affixed to gates. They eventually came to be considered divine protectors, replacing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Brothers
''Ten Brothers'' () is a Chinese legend known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644). It has been told and spun off in various adaptations and remains popular since it is one of the oldest Chinese legends to feature characters in a superhero fashion. Story The more modern version of the story has a married couple finding ten magical pearls; the wife swallows all ten pearls in one gulp and gives birth to decuplet sons. Each one of the ten brothers possesses a different supernatural power, though they develop their gifts as the story progresses. At the end, the brothers battle some form of an antagonist and they only win by working together. However, if the ten brothers come into contact with limestone, their powers disappear and they become helpless. Characters The number of brothers varies among Chinese ethnicities: the Yi people have nine brothers; the Zhuang people have eight brothers; the Han people have five brothers; and the Li people have 10 brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Chengdu, and its population stands at 83 million. Sichuan neighbors Qinghai and Gansu to the north, Shaanxi and Chongqing to the east, Guizhou and Yunnan to the south, and Tibet to the west. During antiquity, Sichuan was home to the kingdoms of Ba and Shu until their incorporation by the Qin. During the Three Kingdoms era (220–280), Liu Bei's state of Shu was based in Sichuan. The area was devastated in the 17th century by Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion and the area's subsequent Manchu conquest, but recovered to become one of China's most productive areas by the 19th century. During World War II, Chongqing served as the temporary capital of the Republic of China, and was heavily bombed. It was one of the last mainland areas captured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Song
The Song dynasty ( ) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Song frequently came into conflict with the contemporaneous Liao, Western Xia and Jin dynasties in northern China. After retreating to southern China following attacks by the Jin dynasty, the Song was eventually conquered by the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The dynasty's history is divided into two periods: during the Northern Song (; 960–1127), the capital was in the northern city of Bianjing (now Kaifeng) and the dynasty controlled most of what is now East China. The Southern Song (; 1127–1279) comprise the period following the loss of control over the northern half of Song territory to the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in the Jin–Song wars. At that time, the Song court retreated south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fable
Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter ''excludes'' animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind. Conversely, an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters. Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "" ("'' mythos''") was rendered by the translators as "fable" in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter. A person who writes fables is referred to as a fabulist. Global history The fable is one of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huaguang Dadi
Emperor Huaguang () is a taoist List of war deities, war deity also known as Wu Xian. He is the head of the According to the "Lai Sea Collection," Emperor Huaguang is said to have been born on September 28 and is associated with the five elements of the five phases. He is also referred to as the "Five Elements Emperor," with the emperor of the east being associated with blue, the emperor of the south with red, the emperor of the west with white, the emperor of the north with black, and the emperor of the center with yellow. In Hakka folk customs, Emperor Huaguang is said to have transitioned from a god to a human and back to a god and spirit. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor bestowed upon him the title of "Yufeng Buddha's Supreme Good King Emperor Huaguang Emperor" and appointed him to govern the middle realm. From then on, people looked up to him for blessings, praying for sons if they want a son and for daughters if they want a daughter. Businessmen would gain profits, stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey To The South
The ''Huaguang Tianwang Nanyou zhizhuan'' (), usually referred to as the ''Nanyou ji'' () or ''Journey to the South'', is a Chinese novel by Yu Xiangdou. First published in the seventeenth century during the Ming dynasty, it tells the story of the celestial being Huaguang Dadi, Huaguang, who is Reincarnation, reincarnated three times as a result of his transgressions. It was later included in the anthology ''Four Journeys''. Plot Originally the flame produced by an oil lamp, Huaguang Dadi, Huaguang () is transformed by the Buddha into a fire deity. Sometime later, a demon known as Single Fire Great King gatecrashes a vegetarian feast at Vulture Peak, causing the Buddha's congregation to panic. Huaguang burns the demon to death. Alarmed by his cruelty, the Buddha decrees that he has to be reborn. Huaguang is first reincarnated as the son of the Goddess of the Horse-Ear Mountain, whose husband has been slain by the Dragon King. She names her son Three-Eyed Divine Radiance since he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Xiangdou
Yu Xiangdou (; ) was a Chinese writer, editor, and publisher active during the late Ming dynasty. He took over the leadership of his family's printing conglomerate in Jianyang, Fujian after repeatedly failing the imperial examination, and was known for including portraits of himself in his publications. Career Yu's family had been in the publishing industry since as early as the twelfth century. At the time of Yu's birth around 1560, his family owned the largest printing conglomerate in Jianyang, Fujian, which comprised some thirty independent publishing houses. In 1591, after failing the imperial examination multiple times, Yu began running the family business. Yu edited and published at least seventy titles, including the Four Books and Five Classics, two collections of fictional Taoist writing, three collections of ''gong'an'' (court-case) stories, and two or three editions of ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. By his own account, Yu also published "a treatise on poetry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Characters
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages. In Taiwan, the set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the ''Standard Form of National Characters''. These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of the predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by the People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
