Qingming Jie – Chinese Spring Festival
Along the River During Qingming Festival (Song Dynasty, 1100s AD) What is Qingming Jie? Like Chinese New Year, Qingming Jie is a Chinese spring festival marking the beginning of spring [...]
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Who was Lei Kung? Ancient Chinese gods
A bolt of lightning in the sky Lei Kung was the Chinese god of thunder, and his wife, Lei Zi, was the goddess of lightning. He makes thunder with his [...]
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Who was Guanyin? Chinese god
The god Guanyin, from the Liao Dynasty (about 1000 AD) Guanyin and the underworld Guanyin was a Chinese Buddhist god based on a real woman, the way Guanti was based on [...]
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Who was Guanti? Chinese god of war
Guanti (Ming Dynasty) What's Guanti's backstory? Like Cheng-Huang, Guanti was a god based on a real man. According to the story, he was born poor and when he was a child he [...]
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What was the religion of ancient China?
Ancient China religion: Han dynasty animal sacrifice (ca. 200 BC-200 AD) China's ancestor worship In the Shang Dynasty (about 2000 BC), the earliest period we know much about, people in China [...]
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What is the I Ching? Ancient Chinese religion
Zhou Dynasty swimmers (Sichuan bronze vessel, ca. 750 BC) from around the time of the I Ching How old is the I Ching? Nobody knows for sure who wrote the [...]
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Who was Xuanzang? A Buddhist scholar of medieval China
Travels of the Buddhist traveller Xuanzang (T'ang Dynasty, 630 AD) Xuanzang was a great Chinese scholar who lived in the 600s AD, under the T'ang dynasty. He was a Buddhist, [...]
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Heng O – Moon goddess – China
Heng O: A sacrifice to the moon Who was Heng O? Heng O was the Chinese goddess of the moon. In Taoist thought about yin and yang, Heng O is the [...]
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Chinese Gods – Mythology – Chinese religion – Ancient China
Chinese gods: A Song Dynasty statue of Guanyin (ca. 1100s AD) When did Chinese religion start? People prayed to many different gods in ancient China. Some of these gods have [...]
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Mandala project – Buddhism in medieval China
Mandala from Dunhuang Caves, 900s AD - make your own mandala project What is a mandala? The Indian word "mandala" means a circle. Buddhists all over East Asia made mandalas [...]
