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Xihe (deity)
Xihe () was a solar deity in Chinese mythology. One of the two wives of Di Jun (along with Changxi), she was the mother of ten suns in the form of three-legged crows residing in a mulberry tree, the Fusang, in the East Sea. Each day, one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage driven by Xihe. Folklore also held that once, all ten sun birds came out on the same day, causing the world to burn; Houyi saved the day by shooting down all but one of the sun birds. Literature In the poem ''Suffering from the Shortness of Days'' (苦晝短), Li He of the Tang dynasty is hostile and even deviant towards the legendary dragons that drew the sun chariot as a vehicle for the passage of time. The following is the relevant excerpt of that poem: :"I will cut off the dragon's feet, chew the dragon's flesh, :so that they can't turn back in the morning or lie down at night. :Left to themselves the old won't die; the young won't cry." In the ''Huaina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xihe(deity)
Xihe is the Chinese tones, atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the Standard Mandarin, Mandarin pronunciation of various Chinese language, Chinese names. It may refer to: Mythology *Xihe (deity) (), a Chinese solar deity Science * Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer, or Xihe, a solar observatory Places *Xihe Commentary (西河郡), a former commentary of imperial China around Fenyang, Shanxi *Xihe District (细河区), a district in Fuxin, Liaoning, China *Xihe County (西和县), a county in Gansu, China *HD 173416 (star), Constellation Lyra; a G8-type giant star; named after the Chinese solar deity Towns *Xihe, Chongqing (西河), in Tongliang County, Chongqing, China *Xihe, Yongjing County (西河), in Yongjing County, Gansu, China *Xihe, Dabu County (西河), in Dabu County, Guangdong, China *Xihe, Shaoguan (西河), in Wujiang District, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China *Xihe, Guangxi (西河), in Mengshan County, Guangxi, China *Xihe, Heilongjiang (西河), in Kesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi He
Xihe is the atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various Chinese names. It may refer to: Mythology *Xihe (deity) (), a Chinese solar deity Science * Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer, or Xihe, a solar observatory Places * Xihe Commentary (西河郡), a former commentary of imperial China around Fenyang, Shanxi *Xihe District (细河区), a district in Fuxin, Liaoning, China *Xihe County (西和县), a county in Gansu, China *HD 173416 (star), Constellation Lyra; a G8-type giant star; named after the Chinese solar deity Towns * Xihe, Chongqing (西河), in Tongliang County, Chongqing, China * Xihe, Yongjing County (西河), in Yongjing County, Gansu, China * Xihe, Dabu County (西河), in Dabu County, Guangdong, China * Xihe, Shaoguan (西河), in Wujiang District, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China * Xihe, Guangxi (西河), in Mengshan County, Guangxi, China * Xihe, Heilongjiang (西河), in Keshan County, Heilongjiang, China * Xihe, Suizhou (), in Zengdu Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Goddesses
Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities because Chinese folk religion, traditional Chinese religion is Polytheism, polytheistic, stemming from a Pantheism, pantheistic view that divinity is inherent in the world. The gods are energies or principles revealing, imitating, and propagating the way of heaven (, ''Tian''), which is the supreme godhead manifesting in the celestial pole, northern culmen of the starry vault of the skies and its order. Many gods are ancestors or men who became deities for their heavenly achievements. Most gods are also identified with stars and constellations. Ancestors are regarded as the equivalent of Heaven within human society, and therefore, as the means of connecting back to Heaven, which is the "utmost ancestral father" (, ). There are a variety of immortals in Chinese thought, and one major type is the ''Xian (Taoism), xian'', which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Solar Deities
A solar deity is a god or goddess who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. The following is a list of solar deities: African Bakongo mythology * Nzambi Mpungu, Kongo god of the Sun and creation Bantu mythology * Nyambe, the Bantu god of the Sun and creation Berber/Amazigh mythology * Magec, Tenerife goddess of the Sun and light Igbo mythology * Anyanwu, Igbo god believed to dwell in the Sun Dahomey mythology * Mawu, Dahomey goddess associated with the Sun and the Moon Egyptian mythology * Amun, creator deity sometimes identified as a Sun god * Aten, god of the Sun, the visible disc of the Sun * Atum, the "finisher of the world" who represents the Sun as it sets * Bast, cat goddess associated with the Sun * Hathor, mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun * Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer
Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer (CHASE), also named Xihe () after the solar deity, is China's first solar observatory. It was launched aboard a Long March 2D rocket on 14 October 2021. CHASE is a satellite operating at a 517-kilometer-altitude Sun-synchronous orbit A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time. More technically, it is ..., with an orbital period of around 94 minutes. See also * Xuntian Notes Chinese telescopes Satellites of China Spacecraft launched in 2021 Space telescopes {{China-spacecraft-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shujun
Shujun () is a Chinese god of farming and cultivation, also known as Yijun and Shangjun. Alternatively he is a legendary culture hero of ancient times, who was in the family tree of ancient Chinese emperors descended from the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi). According to the various sources, Shujun was the son of Di Jun (Emperor Jun) or else Houji's son or nephew (fathered by Houji's younger brother Taixi).Yang, 98 and 201 Shujun is one of the individuals named in Chinese mythology as helping to found the practice of agriculture in China, along with Houji, Di Jun, Shennong, and others. Shujun is specially credited with inventing the use of a draft animal of the bovine family to pull a plow to turn the soil prior to planting. See also *Bovidae in Chinese mythology *Chinese mythology *Five Cereals (China) The Five Grains or Cereals () are a set of five farmed crops that were important in ancient China. In modern Chinese ''wǔgǔ'' refers to rice, wheat, foxtail millet, proso millet and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the Chinese believe that the moon is at its fullest and brightest, coinciding with the time of harvest in the middle of autumn. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays and celebrations in Chinese culture; its popularity is on par with that of Chinese New Year. The history of the festival dates back over 3,000 years. Similar festivals are celebrated by other cultures in East and Southeast Asia. During the festival, lanterns of all sizes and shapessymbolizing beacons that light the path toward prosperity and good fortune for the peopleare carried and displayed. Mooncakes, a traditionally rich pastry that is typically filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huainanzi
The ''Huainanzi'' is an ancient Chinese text made up of essays from scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, before 139 BCE. Compiled as a handbook for an enlightened sovereign and his court, the work attempts to define the conditions for a perfect socio-political order, derived mainly from a perfect ruler. With a notable Zhuangzi (book), Zhuangzi 'Taoist' influence, including Chinese folk religion, Chinese folk theories of yin and yang and Wuxing (Chinese philosophy), Wu Xing, the ''Huainanzi'' draws on Taoist, Legalism (Chinese philosophy), Legalist, Confucian, and Mohist concepts, but subverts the latter three in favor of a wu wei, less active ruler, as prominent in the early Han dynasty before the Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Wu. The early Han authors of the Huainanzi likely did not yet call themselves Taoist, and differ from Taoism as later understood. But K.C. Hsiao and the work's modern translators still considered it a 'principle' example of Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Liang Shrine Relief Depicting Xihe, Yi, And Fusang Tree
Wu may refer to: Places * Wu (region) (), a region roughly corresponding to the territory of Wuyue ** Wu Chinese (), a subgroup of Chinese languages now spoken in the Wu region ** Wuyue culture (), a regional Chinese culture in the Wu region *Wu (state) (; ), a kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period 771–476 BCE ** Suzhou or Wu (), its eponymous capital ** Wu County (), a former county in Suzhou * Eastern Wu () or Sun Wu (), one of the Three Kingdoms in 184/220–280 CE * Li Zitong (, died 622), who declared a brief Wu dynasty during the Sui–Tang interregnum in 619–620 CE * Wu (Ten Kingdoms) (), one of the ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period 907–960 CE * Wuyue (), another of the ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period 907–960 CE * Wu River (other), various rivers in China Language * Wu Chinese, a group of Sinitic languages that includes Shanghaiese People * Wu (surname) (or Woo) (吳), several different Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li He
Li He ( – ) was a Chinese poet of the Tang poetry#Middle Tang, mid-Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Changji, and he is also known as Guicai and Shigui. He was prevented from taking the imperial examination due to a naming taboo. He died very young, and was noted for his sickly appearance. He was a diligent poet, going out on journeys during the day and, when a line of poetry came to him, jotting it down, and completing the poems when he arrived home in the evening. His poems famously explored ghostly, supernatural and fantastic themes. His popularity and place in the Chinese literature, Chinese literary canon has fluctuated throughout the centuries. His idiosyncratic style of poetry was frequently imitated in China until the Qing dynasty. During this era, the popularity of his poetry suffered from a change in literary tastes, with his works notably being excluded from the influential ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'', but there was a revival of interest in him in the twentieth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Creation Narratives
Korean creation narratives are Korean shamanic narratives which recount the mythological beginnings of the universe. They are grouped into two categories: the eight narratives of mainland Korea, which were transcribed by scholars between the 1920s and 1980s, and the ''Cheonji-wang bon-puri'' narrative of southern Jeju Island, which exists in multiple versions and continues to be sung in its ritual context today. The mainland narratives themselves are subdivided into four northern and three eastern varieties, along with one from west-central Korea. Many elements are shared by most Korean creation narratives. In one such episode, two gods grow flowers in a contest to decide who will rule the human world. The deserving benevolent god grows the (better) blossom, but the other god steals it while the good god sleeps. The undeserving cheater thereby becomes the ruler of humanity and spreads evil into the world. In another pan-Korean episode, there are originally two suns and two moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
