Kui (Chinese mythology)
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Kui is a polysemous figure in ancient Chinese mythology. Classic texts use this name for the legendary musician Kui who invented music and dancing; for the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god Kui va
A Spring and Autumn period bronze vessel with coiled dragon patterns
A yak (Bos grunniens)
Kui from a 1786 edition of shanhaijing
Monocoli illustration from the 1493 CE Nuremberg Chronicle
Chinese mythology
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Chinese mythology, is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths
Kui (Chinese mythology)
…Kui (Chinese: 夔; pinyin: kuí; Wade–Giles: k'uei) is a polysemous figure in ancient Chinese mythology. Classic texts use this name for the legendary musician Kui who invented music and dancing; for the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god Kui variously…
Nine Dragons, handscroll section, by Chen Rong, AD 1244, Song dynasty, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bronze mirror with cosmological decoration from the Belitung shipwreck, including Bagua.
The creation of the River of Heaven (Milky Way) across the sky.
Ming dynasty Shuilu ritual painting of celestial deities