The Four Beauties
If you’ve ever strolled through the aisles of a Chinese supermarket, you may have come across ornately crafted tin boxes with four Chinese women on the lid. These are the “Four...
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Get to Know: Colorful Characters from Outlaws of the Marsh
Outlaws of the Marsh is one of the greatest and most action-packed classics of...
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A Lady’s Guide to Manchurian Etiquette
Six tips if you ever find yourself transported back to the Qing Dynasty...
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A Story of Selfless Beauty
One of ancient China’s Four Beauties is often depicted atop horseback with a...
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Traditional Chinese Artistic Motifs: The Skies and Heaven Beyond
A look at traditional Chinese artistic motifs inspired by heavenly realms.
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How a Beauty Trap Ended a Brutal Dictatorship
The story of Lady Diao Chan, from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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The Story of Liang and Zhu
One of China’s best-known folktales, the story of Liang and Zhu can be traced back a...
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Monkey King in the Queendom
The four pilgrims arrive in a land of only women...and one scorpion demon.
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The Cold Cave: A Tale of Devotion
The ultimate tale of a young woman's perseverance and endurance...
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The Phoenix of the Orient
What we know of the oriental phoenix, or fèng huáng (鳳凰), comes from...
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Monkey King at Fire Mountain
Monkey King versus Princess Iron Fan: a tale of humor and trickery.
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Mythistory’s Divine Farmer
Meet the demi-god emperor with a man’s body, an ox’s head, a transparent...
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Mythistory: Great Yu Controls the Waters
It was around 3,000 B.C.E., when a great flood plagued the Middle Kingdom...
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The Goddess of Compassion: Bodhisattva Guan Yin
This goddess of mercy can help solve any problem, but only for those who lead a life of...
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Pigsy from Journey to the West
Pigsy's is a story of a man-pig embarking on a sacred journey. But how did that come...
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The Four-Faced Yellow Emperor of Mythistory
Was he real or a myth? Emperor and inventor, or Taoist cultivator and...
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Mythistory Makes Music
How did Chinese music begin? An ancient legend says it happened like this…
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Mighty Mom of Mythistory
Out of the myriad divinities from China’s Mythistory, who is the one goddess...
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Mythistory Begins
The Chinese tale of creation stars a selfless giant who did all he could do before...
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Dragon Kings of Mythistory
Ancient China was a land where gods and mortals lived in tandem and created a divinely...
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Sage of the Orchid Pavilion
One of the greatest works of Chinese calligraphy, the Orchid Pavilion is also a...
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