Hundun
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Hundun is both a "legendary faceless being" in Chinese mythology and the "primordial and central chaos" in Chinese cosmogony, comparable with the world egg.
The faceless Sovereign Jiang (帝江) described in the Shanhaijing
A shrimp wonton
Taotie
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The taotie is an ancient Chinese mythological creature that was commonly emblazoned on bronze and other artifacts during the 1st millennium BCE. Taotie are one of the Four Perils in Chinese classics l
Hundun
…Glutton, casting them out into the four distant regions, to meet the spite of the sprites and evil things. The other "Perils" are Qiongqi, Taowu, and Taotie. Legge notes this passage "is worthy of careful study in many respects." Girardot contrasts these rare Confucian usages of hundun pejoratively suggesting…
Taotie on Chinese ritual bronze
Shang ding for food rituals celebrating ancestors. The surface is decorated with three taotie motifs – Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Taotie on a ding bronze vessel from late Shang era
A vessel with a taotie design – Musée Cernuschi, Paris